human rights and build its capacity to promote and protect those rights”. In 2013, South Sudan acceded to several treaties and submitted them to the Legislative Assembly for adoption. These treaties include: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 1966 African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 1981 Convention Governing the Specific Aspects of Refugee Problems in Africa, 1969 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, 1979 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965 Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment, 1984 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction, 1997 In 2015, South Sudan ratified five international human rights treaties. These treaties are the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol, Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman of Degrading Treatment of Punishment and its Optional Protocol, and Convention on the Rights of the Child. See also LGBT rights in South Sudan Footnotes External links Transitional Constitution (human rights covered in Part Two) Structure of the Ministry of Justice, including human rights directorate Time to Act for Peace and Human Rights Protection FIDH 2012 2012 Annual Report, by Amnesty International Freedom in the World 2012 Report, by Freedom House World Report 2012, by Human Rights Watch Politics of South Sudan