At #UNMISS we believe #PeaceBegins 🕊️when communities team up to find solutions for preventing conflict. In Eastern Equatoria, #SouthSudan , feuding pastoralists come together at our peace dialogue to end cyclical cattle🐄raids + revenge attacks!
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In Kuajok 🇸🇸, the #UNMISS United Nations Police teamed up with #SouthSudan National Police officers to raise awareness among 33 community leaders, including 10 women 👭🏾, on preventing sexual and gender-based violence.

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Given recent intercommunal tensions & heightened insecurity in Tambura 🇸🇸, #SouthSudan , #UNMISS peacekeepers have intensified patrols 🚓 to reassure the community and are collaborating with local authorities as well as state security organs, to protect civilians 🕊️

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In Yei, #SouthSudan 🇸🇸, United Nations Police officers from #UNMISS
✅ assessed the security situation in IDP camps
✅ interacted with communities on peacefully resolving disputes
✅ spoke to secondary school students on #ChildRights
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🕊️ #PeaceBegins when the rule of law is strengthened! To support the #SouthSudan National Police in Yambio 🇸🇸, #UNMISS United Nations Police organized a three-day training on public order management & crowd control for some 40 officers, including 5 women.

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.UNMAS + partners in #SouthSudan 🇸🇸 work tirelessly to make the ground safe for communities to live freely; peacekeepers to patrol + humanitarians to deliver vital aid. Here’s how they do it 📹
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#UNMISS + the Relief and Rehabilitation Commission in Lakes hosted a workshop for 32 government reps & partners on the #SouthSudan Action Plan for Return, Reintegration & Recovery; discussed ending intercommunal conflict, fair resource distribution & successful reintegration
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Last week, United Nations Police officers #ServingForPeace with #UNMISS 🇸🇸
📍Kuajok➡️Met primary school students to emphasize the importance of education.
📍Torit➡️Raised awareness on community policing benefits among the Mairo community.
📍Malakal➡️Helped facilitate food distribution.

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Some 40 stakeholders joined a validation exercise led by the Eastern Equatoria Relief & Rehabilitation Commission, #UNMISS , UNDP South Sudan, UNHCR South Sudan, IOM South Sudan & South Sudan NGO Forum, to review the draft National Action Plan📜on Return, Reintegration & Recovery.

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🇩🇪 has decided to make 🇸🇸one of its focus countries for humanitarian demining activities! Thank you UNMAS for the opportunity to highlight our support to demining NGOs in 🇸🇸- and to say a heart-felt “thank you” to those who do the hard work of demining in the field. (Cs) #SSOX

#IMAD2024 Today, NMAA, UNMAS , UNMISS, GICHD and partners celebrated International Mine Awareness Day and launched the 🇸🇸 Mine Action Strategy 2024-28 with music, dance and clay modeling art by children showcasing how mine action is #ProtectingLivesBuildingPeace .

To enhance the operational capacities of the Joint Verification & Monitoring Mechanism, including its support to the peace process🕊️+ protection of civilians, #UNMISS handed over vehicles + laptops🚙💻at an event in Juba, # South Sudan 🇸🇸

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#PeaceBegins with new opportunities 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾
#UNMISS & partners trained 60 women and men in Maiwut, #SouthSudan 🇸🇸 to make bread 🫓, earn a living + run a successful business.
Read: bit.ly/3Jd5Vhj

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✨ #PeaceBegins with healthy living! In Bor, #SouthSudan 🇸🇸, #UNMISS #UNPOL officers joined some 150 internally displaced persons to clean up 16 locations including schools, churches, and clinics 🏫⛪, to boost community wellbeing.

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During a visit to Rumbek Central Mosque 🕌, #UNMISS United Nations Police officers in Lakes 🇸🇸 met with around 100 women👭🏾 to raise awareness on childcare+ the importance of reporting any form of violence against women to community leaders or local authorities🙌🏾

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Suzana, who was displaced during an upsurge of violence in Tambura 🇸🇸 in 2021 & has now returned home, is worried that a renewed spike of tensions here may disturb a fragile peace🕊️
#UNMISS & govt. partners visited her & others to boost confidence: bit.ly/3PSgkmd

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#PeaceBegins with access to justice!
🙌🏾 Some 30 traditional leaders from 6 counties in Upper Nile, #SouthSudan 🇸🇸, have been skilled on customary laws, human rights, & preventing sexual & gender-based violence, at an #UNMISS workshop.

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#PeaceBegins with partnerships 🤝🏾
Thanks to #UNMISS United Nations Police officers in Bor 🇸🇸, some 40 officers with the #SouthSudan National Police, including 23 👮🏾‍♀️women, received a three-day training on best practices & procedures in managing prisons + upholding detainee rights.

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#SouthSudan celebrated #IMAD2024 by launching its National #MineAction Strategy 2024-28. Read it here: link.gichd.org/SouthSudanMASt…

The GICHD celebrated the launch with Dep Minster Marial Gumke, the NMAA, UNMAS, UNMISS, GermanForeignOffice & other stakeholders today in Juba.

A Vietnamese delegation, led by Sr. Lt-Gen. Luong Tam Quang, visited #UNMISS peacekeepers from #Vietnam 🇻🇳, #Rwanda 🇷🇼, #Nepal 🇳🇵& #Cambodia 🇰🇭; met #UNMISS ' leadership & #SouthSudan 🇸🇸 National Police officials.

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