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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Yes. A few of the difficulties that happen with, for instance, NGO workers are that now they've changed the visa requirements so that any NGO worker within South Sudan has to go back for a visa. You're only allowed to stay a month and you're constantly flying back and forth between Juba and Nairobi, so they make it very difficult to stay.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Jane Roy

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  With the ongoing conflict, people are definitely going to flee regardless of whether there are great agricultural lands or not. It doesn't matter. They can't stay and they can't grow their crops, which is why this, in essence, becomes really a man-made famine. The conflict itself becomes really important to solve, particularly in Equatoria and the Upper Nile as well.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Jane Roy

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think UNICEF in many ways is better to answer that question. In some senses, I think it's a bit of both. In the past, in the history of child soldiers, when you think of child soldiers you think of them shooting. In South Sudan, previously most of the child soldiers were support.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Jane Roy

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The area we're working in is Northern Bahr el Ghazal. A lot of the international NGOs still have some focus, but they've moved off to the areas of conflict, which are typically the Upper Nile and Equatoria. What becomes really important in terms of the human resource development of the South Sudanese is actually the training of the South Sudanese.

February 21st, 2017Committee meeting

Jane Roy