A/HRC/40/CRP.1 While UN agencies and local and international non-governmental organisations continue to document gender-based crimes and conflict-related sexual violence, this is not done on a disaggregated basis making it difficult to distinguish between sexual and genderbased violence and conflict-related sexual violence. Data is also not available as to the precise number of victims and incidents largely due to under reporting and inadequate systematic documentation and data collection processes.593 Many victims do not survive their attacks, others are still in hiding or living far away or do not report out of fear. 594 Testimonies of courageous survivors provide evidence of large-scale rapes perpetrated during the ongoing attacks and to criminals benefiting from weak security in order to rape women on their way to food distribution or when searching for firewood. Conflict-related sexual violence is indiscriminate and has targeted children, elderly, pregnant women as well as vulnerable persons.595 The Commission documented numerous incidents of rapes, gang rapes, sexual mutilation, abductions, sexual slavery as well as forced stripping.596 One witness recounted how Government soldiers shot a pregnant woman resulting in her death and the expulsion of her foetus from the womb. 597 UNICEF reports that more than 25 percent of reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence involve children.598 Women and girls living in PoC sites have not been safe and have been raped inside the camp while using common ablution facilities including toilets, and shower blocks as well as in their own shelters.599 They have also been attacked when going out of the PoC sites to search for firewood and food.600 Women explained to the Commission that going out of the PoC site to fetch wood in order to sell it inside the PoC site, is the only source of income for their household.601 The Bentiu PoC site is now five years old, and women have to walk as long as four hours in each direction in order to fetch wood, often struggling to return to the PoC site before its doors are locked in the evening. UNMISS and some partner organizations602 have introduced patrols escorting women out of the PoC sites. Currently UNMISS organises four patrols per week to escort women outside the Bentiu PoC site. 603 However, it is insufficient and women continue to go out unaccompanied to collect firewood. As a result, they are routinely assaulted and raped when venturing out. Women are resigned to the risk of rape they face in going out of the PoC site to collect wood. The situation is so grave that mothers advise their daughters on how to respond when they are raped to minimize the violence.604 A mother of four children who lives inside the Bentiu PoC site told the Commission that she had been raped while going out to get firewood and added: “I will never go outside the PoC ever again. But that means that now we do not 593 The Gender‐Based Violence Information Management System (GBV IMS) can only operates in situations where services to survivors are available and many areas in South Sudan do not provide such services. 594 Witness 1109, ERN 102324-102328; Witness 1113, ERN 102216-102219; Confidential Meetings, 17 and 27 January 2019; Final report of the Panel of Experts on South Sudan, S/2018/292, 12 April 2018; CTSAMM, CTSAMM Report 2018/12. Sexual and gender-based violence and violence against civilians in the Yei area, 20 April 2018. 595 Witness 930, ERN 101794-101798; Witness 913, ERN 101836-101841; Witness ID 881, ERN 101582-101586; Witness 873, ERN 101648-101652; Witness 872, ERN 101603-101608; Witness 867, ERN 101550-101556. 596 Witness 915, ERN 101828-101835; Witness 831, ERN 101817-101827; Witness 689, ERN 101400-101411; Witness 416, ERN 101375-101379; Witness 826, ERN 101856-101863, Witness 431, ERN 101503-101507; Witness 834, ERN 101643-101647; Witness 825, ERN 101848-101855, Witness 867, ERN 101550-101556; Witness 700, ERN 101462-101469; Witness 1095, ERN 102211-102215; Witness 1100, ERN 102318 - 102323; Witness 1109, ERN 102324-102328; Witness 1111, ERN 102220102225; Witness 1112, ERN 102226-102231; Witness 1113, ERN 102216-102219; Witness 1114, ERN 102308-102312; Confidential Meetings, 22, 23 and 27 January 2019. 597 Witness 699, ERN 101521-101529. 598 UNICEF, Gender-Based Violence, South Sudan, Briefing note, August 2018. 599 Confidential document, ERN D116715 - D116717; What Works to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls consortium, “No safe Place: A lifetime of violence for conflict-affected women and girls in South Sudan”, 2017. 600 Confidential Meetings, 3 and 4 October 2018; Focus Group Discussions, 4 and 5 October 2018. 601 Witness 1100, ERN 102318 - 102323; Witness 1109, ERN 102324-102328; Witness 1114, ERN 102308-102312; Confidential Meeting, 25 January 2019. 602 As of October 2018, the Partner had suspended its firewood patrol due to a security incident against one of its staff. 603 Confidential Meetings, 3 and 4 October 2018, 19 and 22 January 2019. 604 Confidential Meetings, 22 and 27 January 2019. 89