UN Security Council
2019

Demanding that all parties, particularly the GoSS and the SPLA-IO, end all obstructions to UNMISS, including inter alia obstructions that hamper UNMISS carrying out its mandate to monitor and investigate human rights, Recalling its strong condemnation of all instances of attacks against civilians, including those involving violence against women, children, and persons in vulnerable situations, ethnically targeted violence, hate speech, and incitements to violence, and further expressing deep concern at the possibility that what began as a political conflict could continue to transform into an outright ethnic war, as noted by the Special Advisor for the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng, Expressing grave concern at ongoing reports of sexual and gender-based violence, particularly against women and girls, including the findings of the report of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict to the Security Council (S/2018/250) of the use of sexual violence as a tactic by parties to the conflict against the civilian population, in South Sudan, including use of rape and gang -rape of women and girls, and abduction, forced marriage and sexual slavery, and where