Rights Groups Call on UNMISS To Protect and Provide For IDPs Outside the UN Protection Camps
United Nations Police assisted IDPs seeking refugee and shelter from the heavy fighting(Photo credit: UNMISS/SSNN)
April 7th, 2019(SSNN) — South Sudan rights advocacy groups and human rights activists call on David Shearer, the UN SPecial Representative, and UN organs in South Sudan to protect and provide for the internally displaced persons(IDPs), who were displaced from the UN Protection Sites by fellow IDPs last year.
The groups identified as the South Sudan International Advocacy for Human Rights, the Global Partnership for Peace in South Sudan and the Alliance for Sudanese in Diaspora register their concerns over what they identified as “deteriorating conditions for the South Sudanese IDPs, who were chased out of UNMISS (POC 1 or 3)” when a conflict broke out between the IDPs last year.
“As South Sudanese Diaspora Civil Societies, we are writing to your office regarding those South Sudanese IDPs currently residing in Mangateen Camps. We would like to inform you that we have received insecurity concern for those IDPs in the Mangateen camp and we want to bring those concerns to your attention so that those people are aided with proper protection needed per your security guidance. They have reported food shortages and lack of water in their camp for the last few months.” Said Mr. Peter Gatkuoth Kuel, the Executive Director of South Sudan International Advocacy for Human Rights, who spoke from Kent, Washington DC, USA.
“We would like to take this opportunity to ask your office for urgent relocation to any place or where they were in POC 1 or 3 or deploy security personal in that camps.” He added.
The rights group acknowledged that South Sudan government is not capable to protect or provide for the IDPs and therefore it should be the work of the UN Mission in South Sudan to carter for both camps.
“As you are aware of the South Sudan Government inability to protect those innocent South Sudanese from the Nuer IDPs and their safety should be highly prioritized. We have attached major areas of concerns per our information gathering in the mentioned camp.” They said.
Similar concerns were registered by Simon Deng, a Human Rights Activist, who lives in New York, USA.
The alliance of Human Rights groups in Diaspora was joined by Dr.George Phillip Imuro, the Executive Director of Alliance for South Sudanese in Diaspora, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, USA and Ms. Theresa Samuel, the Executive Director of the Global Partnership for Peace in South Sudan (GaPPSS).
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