A/HRC/40/CRP.1 are yet to be printed.819 One of the challenges is that the General Education Act (2012) provides for early childhood education and Primary levels 1 to 3 to be taught in indigenous languages and for English to be the language of education from Primary level 4 onwards. 820 However, only in November 2018, did the Ministry of Education and Instruction announce that it had started work on the translation of textbooks into Dinka, Nuer, Bari, Zande and Toposa.821 Just as teachers do not have adequate resources to teach, students also lack the resources to learn. Only half of children attending school in 2017 had both a pen or pencil and their own notebook.822 Furthermore, only 30 percent of children have access to food during the school day and even this number varies widely across the country. For example, in Unity State, only five percent of children have access to food during the school day. 823 This, despite the Government’s provision for a National School Feeding Programme, which is being supported by WFP.824 The lack of food during the school day affects not only students’ attendance but also their ability to learn. e) Attacks on Educational Facilities and Personnel Directing attacks against civilian objects, including schools, is a serious violation of international humanitarian law and is a crime punishable under the Draft Statute of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan. In 2017, a third of functional primary schools reported having been affected by attacks of various forms.825 While the majority of those attacks were in the form of looting, six percent of schools reported direct attacks on education personnel and being hit by bullets at least once in 2017.826 In the first half of 2018, the United Nations verified 11 attacks on schools, including looting, vandalism and destruction of facilities, attacks and threats of attacks on students and protected personnel, often during military offensives.827 A further two percent of schools reported having been occupied at least once by armed forces or armed groups in 2017.828 The United Nations verified 13 instances of military use of schools in the first half of 2018. Since 2014, 103 cases of military use of schools have been verified, affecting the access to education of over 32,500 children. 829 Some of this occupation is short term while in other instances it has been more protracted. As of 30 June 2018, 85 of those schools had been vacated, while 35 remained in military use. 830 Schools were used as military bases as well as sleeping quarters by parties to the conflict. A particularly egregious example of attacks on schools occurred on 14 May 2018 at the Emmanuel Christian College (ECC) in Goli, Central Equatoria State. While the majority of the school and its staff had relocated to Yei town in 2016 due to insecurity and fighting in the area, it continued to offer basic education and health facilities at the Goli site.831 On Global Initiative on Out of School Children, “South Sudan Country Study”, May 2018. General Education Act (2012), section 13. 821 Eye Radio, “Ministry of Gen. Education translates textbooks into five national languages”, 27 November 2018. 822 Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, UNICEF and Save the Children, Education Cluster Assessment, South Sudan, November 2017. 823 Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, UNICEF and Save the Children, Education Cluster Assessment, South Sudan, November 2017. 824 Global Initiative on Out of School Children, “South Sudan Country Study”, May 2018; Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, General Education Strategic Plan, 2017-2022, May 2017. 825 Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, UNICEF and Save the Children, Education Cluster Assessment, South Sudan, November 2017. 826 Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, UNICEF and Save the Children, Education Cluster Assessment, South Sudan, November 2017. 827 UN Security Council, Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan, 25 September 2018, S/2018/865. 828 Republic of South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction, UNICEF and Save the Children, Education Cluster Assessment, South Sudan, November 2017. 829 UN Security Council, Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan, 25 September 2018, S/2018/865. 830 UN Security Council, Report of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict in South Sudan, 25 September 2018, S/2018/865. 831 CTSAMM, Report 2018/23 – Murder and Rape in Goli, Central Equatoria State, 7 July 2018, para. 1.1; Confidential Source, ERN D113590-D113600; Confidential Document, ERN D114131-D114144. 819 820 110