UN Security Council
2019

recruitment of children to armed groups and to release all chi ldren that have been recruited to date, and encouraging further efforts in this regard, in particular through the GoSS’s endorsement of the Paris principles, Taking note of the UNMISS and OHCHR report on the Freedom of Expression in South Sudan, and expressing ongoing concern on the severe restriction of freedoms of opinion, expression, and association, and condemning the use of media to broadcast hate speech and transmit messages instigating violence against a particular ethnic group, a practice that has the potential to play a significant role in promoting mass violence and exacerbating conflict, and calling on the GoSS to immediately condemn and counter increasing hate speech and ethnic violence and to promote reconciliation among its people, including through a process of justice and accountability, Expressing serious concern about the dire situation of persons with disabilities in South Sudan, including abandonment, violence and lack of access to basic services, and emphasizing the need to ensure that the particular needs of persons with disabilities are addressed in the humanitarian response,