This week, South Sudan finalized ratification of the African Union’s Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (the Maputo Protocol), ending ...

Grassroots organising, coalitions, and movement-building majorly contributed to South Sudan's independence in 2011 from Sudan, in which women and girls played a significant role.

As a result, Margret decided to step up her efforts to assist the most vulnerable - often women and girls – and became the ...

The state needs to fulfil its legal obligations to protect women and girls. South Sudan has signed up to numerous ...

South Sudanese authorities say that eight men deported from the United States are now in government custody in the African ...

JUBA, South Sudan — Pope Francis warned Saturday that South Sudan’s future depends on how it treats its women, as he highlighted their horrific plight in a country where sexual violence is ...

KHARTOUM, SOUTH SUDAN | Xinhua | In a displacement shelter in Port Sudan, a charitable kitchen run by women’s rights advocate ...

Education helps build nations - our work in South Sudan focuses on keeping girls in school and empowering women to improve their financial futures. BBC Media Action began working in South Sudan in ...

Women from Sudan's South Kordofan state have been repeatedly raped and some held as sex slaves by fighters from the warring Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, Human Rights Watch said ...

Sudanese women tell Human Rights Watch that RSF paramilitaries, one side in a grueling civil war, are subjecting them to horrific sexual violence. Latest U.S.