the law, especially in areas like Jonglei, Unity, and Upper Nile. Social rights Women's rights Many women in South Sudan are living “without basic forms of human security, health care or economic stability”. According to the United Nations, 33 percent of South Sudanese women are moderately or severely food insecure. Gender-based violence Violence against women is extremely prevalent in South Sudan. Prolonged conflict in the region leads to greater gender-based violence, such as “disruption of community and family structures, presence of arms, weakened legal and security institutions, and heightened tensions related to displacement”. The biggest threat of violence to women comes from within the home. In 2009, 41 percent of survey respondents reported that they had experienced gender-based violence in the past year, of which the most common forms were physical violence (47%), psychological violence (44%), economic violence (30%), and sexual violence (13%). In a 2011 Human Security Baseline Assessment, 59 percent of surveyed women had experienced gender-based violence at home, and 19 percent had experienced gender-based violence in their community. In a 2013 study, Jennifer Scott et al. found “an overwhelming acceptance of violence against women, by both women and men,” in many communities in South Sudan. The majority of survey respondents agreed that “there are times when a woman deserves to be beaten and that a woman should tolerate violence to keep her family together”. A UN survey found that 70% of women who were sheltering in camps had been raped since the beginning of the conflict, with the vast majority of rapists being police and soldiers. The SPLA were reported to have recruited militias and young men in Unity state to take back rebel held areas. They were given guns and their pay was what they could loot and women they could capture, who were raped. In 2021, South Sudan health authority responded to estimate of 330 cases of gender based violence like rape, physical violence and other cases of gender based violence. The In charge of gender based violence center Samuel Legge, in Juba Teaching Hospital which is the main referral hospital in Capital Juba said, the main issue is delay in reporting gender based violence cases to the center. Children's rights Child labor The government of South Sudan has made efforts to eliminate child labor and promote children's rights, but their attempts have been largely ineffective. Despite launching the Children, Not Soldiers campaign, a Ministry