Country South Sudan
Year 2013
Type of Measure Policies > National action plan specific to violence against women
Form of Violence Violence against women and girls

Brief Description


The implementation of the National Action Plan (NAP) will ensure women’s participation in all levels of decision making and to address their gender specific security needs in South Sudan. Translating the NAP into practice will represent an important and ambitious task that could potentially have a strong impact to address and reduce gender based violence and violence against women and girls and improvements to gender inclusive human security in South Sudan.

Source of Information

The Government of South Sudan, National Review on Beijing +20 2014, pg 35