A/HRC/28/49 particular in Unity, Lakes, Jonglei and Western Equatoria States. Those sensitization initiatives included training for journalists, women’s groups, religious and civil society organizations, hospital social workers, returnees and primary and secondary school students. UNMISS also engaged in human rights awareness-raising activities and dispute resolution mechanisms with community leaders and displaced persons in its protection of civilians sites. In accordance with Security Council resolution 2155 (2014), emphasis was placed on women’s right to participate fully in decision-making and the prevention and resolution of conflict. 54. On 25 November 2014, as part of efforts to address gender-based violence, including conflict-related sexual violence, UNMISS and its partners launched the annual 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, including radio talk shows and awareness-raising activities throughout the country. 55. On 11 December 2014, UNMISS, in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, trained 15 media observers in Juba on information-gathering and human rights investigation methodology. Similar training focusing on investigating, reporting and advocacy has been carried out for civil society organizations. V. Conclusion 56. One year into the conflict in South Sudan, the human rights situation there remains grave. Though the scale and severity of the conflict have recently declined, there has been persistent fighting, notably in Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei States, accompanied by gross human rights violations and abuses, including killings, conflictrelated sexual violence and large-scale displacements of civilians. With very little meaningful progress having been made towards a political resolution of the crisis, there is a risk that the armed conflict may intensify, with a further devastating impact on civilians. In addition to the conflict, intercommunal violence continues to be of serious concern. There also continues to be a notable deterioration in the exercise of freedom of expression, with incidents of threats and intimidation of civil society, detention of journalists and censorship of the media. 57. While both forces engaged in the fighting have continued to commit serious human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law, neither side has taken any concrete steps to date to hold perpetrators to account or to seriously pursue justice and redress for the victims. In the light of the marked failure by both parties to the conflict to hold perpetrators accountable, it is hoped that the African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan, established to investigate ongoing crimes and human rights violations and abuses, will publish its findings soon as a step towards ensuring meaningful accountability for human rights violations and abuse and ending the cycle of violence and impunity in the country. VI. Recommendations 58. The recommendations the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights made in his report to the Human Rights Council at its twenty-seventh session remain largely unimplemented and continue to apply. The High Commissioner reiterates those recommendations, broadening their scope, and adds new ones. 13