WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY - BAROMETER REPORT SOUTH SUDAN

With the Barometer on Women, Peace and Security (WPS), we aim to adopt a bottom-up approach to security and peace that is in line with the priorities of women who are most exposed to the realities of (S)GBV and conflict-related violence. [...] The enabling factor is the wide-spread assumption that women are the property of men and of their family and this defines the way they are expected to participate and be represented as in the decision- making spaces. [...] There is a need to engage with leaders to become educated and knowledgeable about the legal and institutional frameworks in place that are aimed at the protection of women and the guarantee of their rights. [...] The reality is that while institutional mechanisms that entitle women to rights and protection already exist, like the different provisions in the Transitional constitution of South Sudan of 2011 and other legal frameworks such as the Child Act (2008) and the Revitalized Peace Agreement for the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS) (2018) regarding women’s rights and the protection of wo. [...] The current laws in place to protect and support women are not enough to guarantee their peace and security, which results from the failure to implement them, the failure to change cultural attitudes as well as to educate the women at the local level for them to claim what is rightfully theirs.