UN General Assembly
2014

All Forms of Discrimination against Women; the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its first Optional Protocol; and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the Optional Protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. Those are all positive measures put in place to address some of the concerns. The conflict in South Sudan is purely a political struggle for power and not an ethnic conflict, as has been reported. The citizens displaced by the conflict, especially in the three states of Jonglei, Unity and Upper Nile, have sought refuge in the neighbouring states of Lakes, Warrap, Central Equatoria and Eastern Equatoria and in neighbouring countries. Those innocent victims of the conflict urgently need and deserve humanitarian assistance. We therefore thank the United Nations, the Government of Norway and the stakeholders for organizing the donor conference in Oslo, Norway, in May to support our humanitarian needs. We also deeply appreciate and welcome the