UN Documents for South Sudan

Selected Security Council Resolutions View All
13 July 2018 S/RES/2428 This resolution imposed an arms embargo and additional targeted sanctions and renewed the sanctions regime and mandate of the Panel of Experts.
31 May 2018 S/RES/2418 This resolution renewed the sanctions regime and mandate of the Panel of Experts until 15 July 2018.
15 March 2018 S/RES/2406 This was a resolution extending UNMISS's mandate for one year.
Selected Security Council Presidential Statements View All
14 December 2017 S/PRST/2017/25 This was a presidential statement on the situation in South Sudan, focusing on IGAD's efforts to revitalise the peace process.
9 August 2017 S/PRST/2017/14 This was on the threat of famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and north-east Nigeria.
23 March 2017 S/PRST/2017/4 This statement emphasised the need for a political solution to the conflict in South Sudan.
Selected Secretary-General's Reports View All
10 December 2018 S/2018/1103 This was the Secretary-General’s 90-day report on South Sudan.
25 September 2018 S/2018/865 This was the Secretary-General's report on children and armed conflict in South Sudan.
11 September 2018 S/2018/831 This was the Secretary-General's 90-day report on South Sudan.
Selected Sanctions Committee Documents View All
27 December 2018 S/2018/1123 This was the report of the 2206 South Sudan Sanctions Committee, containing an account of the Committee’s activities from 1 January to 31 December 2018.
26 November 2018 S/2018/1049 This was the interim report of the South Sudan Sanctions Committee’s Panel of Experts.
20 August 2018 S/2018/776 This was a letter from the Secretary-General appointing five experts to the South Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts until 1 July 2019.
Selected Security Council Letters View All
7 December 2018 S/2018/1102 This was a letter from Sudan to the president of the Security Council attaching documents on meetings held in Khartoum on the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan.
6 August 2018 S/2018/574 This was a letter from Sudan transmitting the agreement on outstanding issues of governance and responsibility sharing.
19 July 2018 S/2018/736 This was the joint communiqué following the 12th annual joint consultative meeting between the UN Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council at which the situations in South Sudan and the DRC were discussed.
Selected Security Council Meeting Records View All
18 December 2018 S/PV.8431 This was a briefing by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix on the Secretary-General’s 90-day report on South Sudan.
16 November 2018 S/PV.8403 This was a briefing on South Sudan.
18 September 2018 S/PV.8356 This was a briefing by Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix on the Secretary-General’s 90-day report on South Sudan.
Selected Security Council Press Statements View All
21 December 2018 SC/13647 Council members issued a press statement that strongly condemned the assault, detention and abuse of the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism team by government officials on 18 December 2018 in Luri, South Sudan and called on the government to investigate the incident immediately and hold those responsible accountable.
7 December 2018 SC/13611 Council issued a press statement condemning “heinous incidents of sexual and gender-based violence against women near Bentiu in northern South Sudan” and calling for accountability.
20 November 2018 SC/13593 https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/sc13593.doc.htm
Selected General Assembly Documents View All
14 July 2011 A/RES/65/308 This resolution admitted South Sudan as a member of the UN.
Selected Human Rights Council Documents View All
23 March 2018 A/HRC/RES/37/31 This was a resolution adopted during the 37th session of the Human Rights Council extending the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan for an additional year and requests an oral update from the Commission at its 39th session in September and a written report at its 40th session in March 2019.
14 December 2016 A/HRC/S-26/L.1 This was a Human Rights Council resolution that condemned the ongoing violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law in South Sudan.
2 July 2015 A/HRC/RES/29/13 This stressed the importance of an objective assessment of the human rights situation in South Sudan and called for the deployment of a mission "to monitor and report on the situation of human rights and to undertake a comprehensive assessment of allegations of violations and abuses of human rights with a view of ensuring accountability and in complementarity with the African Union Commission of Inquiry."
Selected Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict Documents View All
18 December 2018 S/AC.51/2018/3 This was the Working Group on Children and Armed Conflict's conclusions on children and armed conflict in South Sudan.
12 May 2015 S/AC.51/2015/1 This was the Working Group’s conclusions on South Sudan.
Selected Other Documents View All
23 December 2016 S/2016/1085 This was the draft resolution on an arms embargo and targeted sanctions that failed to receive the necessary support to be adopted. It received seven affirmative votes (France, New Zealand, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay, the UK and the US) and eight abstentions (Angola, China, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, Russia, Senegal, and Venezuela).