{"id":261101,"date":"2024-04-29T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261101"},"modified":"2024-04-28T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T05:36:04","slug":"barbaric-sexual-violence-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/04\/barbaric-sexual-violence-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Barbaric\u2019 Sexual Violence in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sexual violence continues to affect women, especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan, with reports of rapes, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls.
Photo: OCHA\/Ala Kheir.<\/p><\/div>\n

Joint Statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, and Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, Joyce Msuya.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

25 Apr 2024 <\/em>– After one year of hostilities in Sudan<\/a>, we are appealing for more international engagement to combat sexual violence against women and girls in the country. These barbaric acts, which echo the horrors witnessed in Darfur two decades ago, must spur immediate action.<\/p>\n

As members of the Security Council meet this week for the annual open debate on conflict-related sexual violence, we urge them to send an unequivocal message: Under international humanitarian law, civilians in Sudan must be protected and must never be subjected to acts of sexual violence, which constitute war crimes.<\/p>\n

Reports of sexual violence reveal the war\u2019s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls \u2013 especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan \u2013 continue to be recorded. Millions of civilians are especially at risk as they flee conflict areas in search of shelter, inside Sudan and in neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

However, the true scale of this crisis remains unseen, a result of severe underreporting due to stigma, fear of reprisals, and a lack of confidence in national institutions.<\/p>\n

Without increased political and financial support for the vital work of frontline responders \u2013 especially organizations led by women \u2013 access to life-saving services will only continue to shrink. Fully funding this year\u2019s Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan for Sudan \u2013 currently only 10 per cent funded<\/a> \u2013 will help to support survivors, while bolstering the United Nations\u2019 Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Multi-Partner Trust Fund is essential to strengthen the response.<\/p>\n

Building on the solidarity demonstrated at last week\u2019s International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its Neighbours in Paris, we must continue to shore up our support for the people of Sudan \u2013 critically by combating sexual violence in all its forms and ensuring that Sudanese frontline responders stay at the centre of those efforts.<\/p>\n

Go to Original – human-wrongs-watch.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

25 Apr 2024 – Reports of sexual violence reveal the war\u2019s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls \u2013 especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan \u2013 continue to be recorded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[3190,2452,2819,128,3284,481],"class_list":["post-261101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-sexual-slavery","tag-sexual-violence","tag-south-sudan","tag-sudan","tag-unocha","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261103,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261101\/revisions\/261103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}