UNICEF's UN Children's Fund issued a report on Tuesday stating that an armed Sudan man was sexually assaulting, including a young, one-year-old child.
UNICEF Quote “Data compiled by Sudan's gender-based violence service providers” shows that 221 rape cases have been recorded since the beginning of 2024. Of these, 147 were girls, and 33% of rape victims were boys. Sixteen survivors were under the age of five, four of whom were one year old.
“These figures represent only a small fraction of the overall cases. Survivors and their families are often unable to aspire or move forward due to access to services and frontline workers, fear of stigma, fear of rejection from families and communities, fear of retaliation from armed groups, or fear of confidentiality violations,” the report said.
UNICEF said fear of sexual violence “stimulates women and girls to leave their homes and families and flee to other cities, often going to informal shelters and communities with rare resources.” These displacement sites suffer from sexual assault on both adults and children.
“Everyone who is raped by an armed man should shock their core and force them to act immediately,” says UNICEF Executive Director Katherine Russell.
“Millions of children in Sudan are at risk of rape and other forms of sexual violence. This is used as a war tactic. This is an abominable violation of international law and could constitute a war crime, Russell said.
“The parties to the conflict, and those who influence them, must make every effort to put an end to these serious violations against children. The wounds of these wars last immeasurably long,” she warned.
UNICEF has called on the Sudanese government and “all political parties” to respect their duties under human rights law and to stop using it as a “tactic” for sexual violence.
Another UNICEF press release He condemned sexual violence in Sudan as a “war crime.”
UNICEF Complete report Regarding sexual violence in Sudan, the war ousted 11 million people and said “tens of thousands have reportedly died.” Outbreak Famine and illness.
The report argued that 25% of Sudan's population should be considered at risk of “gender-based violence.”
Several of the victims who spoke with UN investigators said they were forced to exchange their sexual benefits for food, supplies or protection from fatal hazards. Others said they were trafficked across Sudan's borders due to sexual exploitation.
The report was somewhat elusive as to whether a group of “armed men” committed each documented attack, perhaps because the victims feared identifying their perpetrators. The report does not directly refer to either the Sudanese Army (SAF) under the command of General Abdel Fatta al-Burhan, the nominal head of the Sudanese government, or the Sudanese Army (SAF) under the command of a swift support force under the control of Mohamed Hamdan “Hemetti” Dagaro.
Burhan and Dagalo were originally partners to overthrow the Sudan government, which was elected in 2021, but the power struggle between them was It erupted The malicious civil war in April 2023.
“Other UN investigations have condemned the majority of paramilitary rapid support forces (RSF) rape, saying there is a pattern in which RSF fighters use sexual violence to terrorize civilians and suppress opposition to their progress,” the BBC said. It's attracting attention on tuesday.
“According to evidence presented by international human rights groups, the victims of the RSF's Darfur base were often targeted because they were not Arabs but Black Africans and apparently intended to be kicked out of Sudan,” the BBC reported.
