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SOUTH SUDAN / CHILD PROTECTION CAPACITY BUILDING
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN/ CHILD PROTECTION CAPACITY BUILDING
TRT: 3:31
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 18 MAY 2021, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Various shots, UNMISS Child Protection official at workshop training session for South Sudan military judicial sector
2. Close up, banner with message “Children not soldiers” on wall
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eston Njoroge, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF:
“This workshop is about training military justice personnel. It’s part of ongoing activities by the Country Task Force, that is UNMISS and UNICEF, to build the capacity and support the Government of South Sudan towards full implementation of the Comprehensive Action Plan on ending all six grave violations [against children] which was signed last year, in February 2020.”
4. Various shots, military listening in session
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Orono Orono, Head, Child Protection, UNMISS:
“Now, we have around three previous Action Plans that were signed but, for various reasons, they were not implemented. Now the latest one was [signed] in February and [this] Action Plan is unique in its own way [in] that it comprises of all parties to the conflict. It’s the first time in the history of child protection that we have all the parties to conflict agree on a single Action Plan. Now they have committed themselves.”
6. Various shots, training session and military listening
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Orono Orono, Head, Child Protection, UNMISS:
“We hope that they will be getting our message, that should not be using children, they should not be killing children or maiming them; they should not be raping children, they should not be occupying schools and hospitals and they should not be denying the humanitarians from accessing civilians. That’s the message we send to all of them.”
8.Med shot, National DDR Commission at training session
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Honourable Ayuen Alier, Chair, National DDR Commission
“We are telling them and training them now [so] that when they are back to their units, they can advise division commanders on the right way to take. From top down, we are giving them knowledge so that they know their role and according to their role, we are checking from time to time [if they are doing] what they are supposed to do.”
10. Various shots, training session
Following signing of the Comprehensive Action Plan to end use of child soldiers and protect children against the six grave violations of their rights by all parties to conflict in South Sudan in last year, UNMISS Child Protection joined hands with UNICEF and national partners to hold a series of related workshop in Juba. The objective is to educate and train participants from the military justice sector on the rights of children and the need to protect them when armed conflict arises.
SOUNDBITE (English) Eston Njoroge, Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF:
“This workshop is about training military justice personnel. It’s part of ongoing activities by the Country Task Force, that is UNMISS and UNICEF, to build the capacity and support the Government of South Sudan towards full implementation of the Comprehensive Action Plan on ending all six grave violations [against children] which was signed last year, in February 2020.”
This is the first time that all parties to ongoing conflict in the world’s youngest nation have come together in agreement that children need special protection during times when violence breaks out.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Orono Orono, Head, Child Protection, UNMISS
“Now, we have around three previous Action Plans that were signed but, for various reasons, they were not implemented. Now the latest one was [signed] in February and [this] Action Plan is unique in its own way [in] that it comprises of all parties to the conflict. It’s the first time in the history of child protection that we have all the parties to conflict agree on a single Action Plan. Now they have committed themselves.”
Facilitators ran detailed sessions on myriad issues related to child protection, on the psycho-social and economic aftereffects when minors are engaged as combatants; witness or are caught up in attacks on schools; are killed, raped or disabled due to violence; and are denied necessary humanitarian aid. These constitute six grave violations against children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alfred Orono Orono, Head, Child Protection, UNMISS:
“We hope that they will be getting our message, that should not be using children, they should not be killing children or maiming them; they should not be raping children, they should not be occupying schools and hospitals and they should not be denying the humanitarians from accessing civilians. That’s the message we send to all of them.”
Attending military lawyers were also thoroughly briefed on existing legal frameworks to protect children.
SOUNDBITE (English) Honourable Ayuen Alier, Chair, National DDR Commission:
“We are telling them and training them now [so] that when they are back to their units, they can advise division commanders on the right way to take. [CUT TO 3:12] From top down, we are giving them knowledge so that they know their role and according to their role, we are checking from time to time [if they are doing] what they are supposed to do.”
According to UNICEF more than 3,000 children have been released from armed groups in South Sudan since conflict began, but thousands more continue to be used.
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