Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, I'm afraid it's outside my area of expertise. I was asked to come here specifically to speak about the human rights situation in South Sudan, so I don't feel comfortable speaking to those issues that are within the jurisdiction of another UN agency, which is the UNHCR.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Again, it sounds like a UN bureaucratic response, but I just don't feel comfortable speaking to an issue that I don't have expertise in. I do have some suggestions, which we will go into in camera, that may answer some of those questions.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  No. I don't work for UNHCR. I work for the human rights office. I also don't cover Iraq so I can't speak to the issue, I'm afraid.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I think the situation is grim. Today, it's grim. I heard before I came here, from a colleague in DPKO, the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, that the World Food Programme said it had lost millions of dollars of food that had been stolen. The UN pre-positions food for the rai

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Yes. I'm sure John can speak to that as well. Humanitarians have been murdered; they've been beaten. When I was there from October through January of this year, humanitarian offices in Juba were raided by the national security apparatus, staff were beaten, cars stolen, money sto

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Our reporting suggests that the local police force have been involved in the atrocities—the killing of civilians and the rape of women and girls—so we wouldn't trust the local police authorities.

Citizenship and Immigration committee  From December 2013 up until today, it has been used as a weapon of war, we allege, the UN alleges, predominantly by the government forces and associated militia. What was so striking for us in our most recent investigation is the impact that has had on the social fabric. Many of

Citizenship and Immigration committee  Mr. Chair, thank you very much to you and to your colleagues for reaching out to the United Nations for this briefing on the human rights situation in South Sudan. The world's newest nation, tragically, is a country some five years old. It has had two years of war, in which more