{"id":7913,"date":"2018-12-07T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2018-12-10T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T12:46:23","slug":"south-sudan-un-urges-south-sudan-to-prosecute-men-involved-in-rape-of-125-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2018\/12\/07\/south-sudan-un-urges-south-sudan-to-prosecute-men-involved-in-rape-of-125-women\/","title":{"rendered":"SOUTH SUDAN: UN Urges South Sudan to prosecute men involved in rape of 125 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations has urged authorities in the country to prosecute the men who raped women and girls in a village in the oil-rich Bentiu State last week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UN Secretary-General, Antonio Gutteres, said in a statement shared with the media on Tuesday that South Sudan leaders, from both Government and the opposition, should end the persistent impunity against women and girls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gutteres calls on the leaders of all the parties to the conflict and future leaders in the Transitional Government of National Unity to ensure safety of the civilians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urges the parties to address these crimes through investigation and prosecution of perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN Secretary General expressed disappointment following the unlawful act of rape of some 125 women and girls on a road leading to a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution point in Bentiu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u223d<em>End<\/em>\u223d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Source: Radio Bhakita<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations has urged authorities in the country to prosecute the men who raped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7915,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions\/7915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}