On 23 January, the Selection Panel announced the completion of its work: selecting the four South Sudanese Commissioners who will oversee the Commission on Truth, Reconciliation and Healing. Along with three non-South Sudanese Commissioners, who are being selected by the African Union, in collaboration with the UN, they will lead the CTRH - a key transitional justice mechanism in South Sudan.

On 19 January 2026, the ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Khan briefed the UN Security Council about the Prosecutor's investigation in Darfur. Rights for Peace has been arguing that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction for the whole of Sudan insofar as there is a sufficient link between the situation referred by the Security Council to the International Criminal Court in Resolution 1593 (2025) and alleged new crimes. On 3 December 2025, Rights for Peace, with lawyers

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a UN treaty body responsible for reviewing how States Parties implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child . It is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history - ratified by every UN member state except the United States of America. South Sudan ratified the Convention and its optional protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict on 23 January 2015. It has not, however, signed the Convention’s

This field manual provides practical guidance for human rights defenders, supporting safe and ethical documenting of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV).