UNCT Newsletter, June Edition

Key highlights from this edition include: 

• South Sudan commemorates World Refugee Day
• United Nations County Team marks 60-day countdown to the SDG by tree planting
• United nations economic commission for Africa conducts South Sudan national risk assessment workshop.
• Government and UN conducts a technical review of the preliminary Sustainable Development Goals Assessment Report as the SDG summit draws closer. 
• Hungry, weary and Lost: children and women comprise almost 75% of the thousands of people fleeing Sudan. South Sudan prepares for the first elections: consultations on the national election act 2012.
• Women leadership and political participation project launched.
• South Sudan prepares for better health response. 
•  A number of families fleeing Sudan's conflict searching for separated children in Aweil West County. 
• Relshaping policies for creativity and artistic freedom project launched. 
• Bittersweet return of South Sudanese fleeing the conflict in Sudan 
• WFP supports drought -affected communities with humanitarian food assistance.