LibGuides: International Humanitarian Law: South Sudan

According to Oran Manirakiza, South Sudan has become "one of the countries known to be the home of human trafficking." See Manirakiza, The Ongoing Human Trafficking in South Sudan (2015), available as a link below. Not only this, South Sudan has been ranked among the lowest countries in the Trafficking in Persons Report due to its lack of governmental response to trafficking crimes. See Danis, South Sudan: A Trafficking Destination Country (2016), available as a link below. This, of course, classifies South Sudan as an international source, transit, and destination for global human trafficking.

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Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking in South Sudan

South Sudan: UNODC resumes partnership to Combat Trafficking in Persons
In September of 2018, the South Sudanese government partnered with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to deliver their first anti-human trafficking workshop. The workshop was described as being "critical in improving the understanding and skills of participants not only in investigations but also in enhancing the capacities of the participants on human trafficking and migrant smuggling."

Ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
The Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict aims to protect children from recruitment and use in hostilities. It was ratified by South Sudan in July of 2005.
Ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography requires state parties to prohibit and abstain from the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography. It was ratified by South Sudan in November of 2004.
Ratification of the Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour
The Convention on the Worst Forms of Child Labour was adopted by the International Labour Organization in 1999 as ILO Convention no. 182. By ratifying this convention, a country commits to working towards immediate prohibition of child labor. This convention was ratified by South Sudan in April of 2012.

South Sudan 2008 Child Act
Article 32 prohibits the recruitment and use of children for military and paramilitary activities.

Anti-Trafficking Organizations in South Sudan

Confident Children out of Conflict
Confident Children out of Conflict is a non-governmental organization in South Sudan whose main objective is the protection of vulnerable children.
Humanitarian Development Consortium
The Humanitarian Development Consortium is a non-governmental organization in South Sudan which develops programs which are directed at refugees, trafficking victims, returnees, and internally displaced persons.
South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocay
The South Sudan Human Rights Society for Advocacy is a non-governmental organization which was founded in 2007 by South Sudanese lawyers. One of the principle objectives of the organization is the promotion of the core principles of International Humanitarian Law.