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outlining any obstacles resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and measures it is
taking or intends to take to mitigate identified challenges;
(e) Establish a focal point in the R-TGoNU to oversee implementation of Chapter V
of the R-ARCSS and transitional justice processes in South Sudan;
(f) Initiate deliberate measures to ensure broad and inclusive public, victims’, and
civil society participation in the conceptualisation, implementation, and monitoring of
transitional justice processes, including the selection of Commissioners to the
Compensation and Reparation Authority;
(g) Ensure that transitional justice measures are holistic, contextualised, respond to
victims’ needs, and uphold human rights principles, including the guarantee of
equality, non-discrimination, impartiality and inclusivity;
(h) Take prompt action to investigate and prosecute State security officers and other
actors responsible for violations of fundamental freedoms and rights to information,
expression, association, and assembly, and suppression of civic space; and
(i) Allocate at least 1 per cent of oil revenues to reparations, alongside other nonmonetary measures to promote a broad approach to reparation, including
compensation, restitution, rehabilitation, symbolic measures, and guarantees of nonrepetition.
120. The Commission recommends that UN Members States, the United Nations, and
other development partners:
(a) Initiate targeted programmes to support the strengthening of civil society and
victims’ groups capacity, so as to ensure their effective engagement in transitional
justice processes, including at grassroots levels;
(b) Provide technical and financial assistance, with clear requirements for
transparency and accountability, to support transitional justice processes in South
Sudan; and
(c) Provide political support to sustain momentum on implementation of the RARCSS and initiation of transitional justice mechanisms in Chapter V.
121.
The Commission recommends that the African Union:
(a) Provide a public update on the challenges it has experienced in its attempts to
establish the Hybrid Court in collaboration with the R-TGoNU, and its proposed
solutions to address the current stalemate;
(b) Initiate contingency preparations to unilaterally establish a Hybrid Court along
with a functioning Prosecutor’s Office, in the event that the Government of South
Sudan continues to delay its formation; and
(c) Take deliberate steps to pursue the implementation of the R-ARCSS and
transitional justice measures in South Sudan, in line with its broader mandate in the
AU Charter and African Union Transitional Justice Policy.
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