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At midnight on 9 July 2011, southern Sudan became an independent country under the name "Republic of South Sudan". [23] On 14 July 2011, South Sudan became the 193rd member state of the United Nations [24] [25] and on 28 July 2011, South Sudan joined the African Union as its 54th member state. [26]
The child marriage rate in South Sudan is 52%. [145] Homosexual acts are illegal. [146] Recruitment of child soldiers has also been cited as a serious problem in the country. [147] In April 2014, Navi Pillay, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, stated that more than 9,000 child soldiers had been fighting in South Sudan's civil war ...
The National Archive of South Sudan is located in Juba, South Sudan. The collection consists of tens of thousands of Sudanese and Southern Sudanese government documents running from the early 1900s , through the independence of Sudan in 1956 and Sudan's First (1955–1972) and Second (1983–2005) civil wars, to the late 1990s. [ 1 ]
South Sudan has the 6th highest rate of child marriage in the world. [1] In 2008, the South Sudan census approximated that 2 in 5 girls marry before they reach the age of 18. [ 5 ] As of 2010, 52% of South Sudanese girls are married by the age of 18 and 9% are married by 15. [ 6 ]
South Sudan became an independent state on 9 July 2011, following a referendum that passed with 98.83% of the vote. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a United Nations member state , [ 4 ] [ 5 ] a member state of the African Union , [ 6 ] and a member state of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development . [ 7 ]
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Though South Sudanese law limits marriage to those age 18 and over, it's rarely enforced, particularly in rural areas. And activists are trying to change this.
Courtship, marriage, and divorce in Cambodia; S. Ghost marriage in South Sudan This page was last edited on 30 August 2020, at 01:30 (UTC). Text ...