This briefing paper draws on the work of our organizations over the last decade and credible secondary sources, including UN reports. It proposes ten priorities that should form the basis of a comprehensive human rights agenda that are based on South Sudan’s existing obligations in the Bill of Rights, international and regional law treaties, customary law, and the human rights reforms in the R-ARCSS. Many of the recommendations set out in this document were accepted by the government during the 2016 Universal Periodic Review (UPR), but have not been implemented. For example, the GoSS accepted recommendations by Ethiopia and Pakistan to develop a human rights agenda and action plan but has yet to do so.

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