Latest items for Sudan
Jan. 10, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"She said she was gang-raped on 5 November by men who saw her carrying her three-year-old son, who has dark skin on account of her estranged husband. 'They told me ‘you gave yourself to that nawab [slave]. We will take our turn too or we will kill your son’,' Abdulkarim said in an interview in her kitchen, while she cooked rice with dried meat over coals. 'I begged them to leave my son but one of them told me ‘either you or your son’, and I just gave him myself,' she said, tears streaming down her face. 'I tried to kill myself and I had sleepless nights. Now, when I...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"She said she was gang-raped on 5 November by men who saw her carrying her three-year-old son, who has dark skin on account of her estranged husband. 'They told me ‘you gave yourself to that nawab [slave]. We will take our turn too or we will kill your son’,' Abdulkarim said in an interview in her kitchen, while she cooked rice with dried meat over coals. 'I begged them to leave my son but one of them told me ‘either you or your son’, and I just gave him myself,' she said, tears streaming down her face. 'I tried to kill myself and I had sleepless nights. Now, when I...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"A spokesperson for the UN Population Fund said the social stigma around gender-based violence (GBV) meant the actual numbers of rape victims would be much higher than those officially documented" (para 19).
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"A spokesperson for the UN Population Fund said the social stigma around gender-based violence (GBV) meant the actual numbers of rape victims would be much higher than those officially documented" (para 19).
Jan. 10, 2025, 5:31 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata. Most of the rape campaign’s victims were from the Masalit community, a darker-skinned ethnic African tribe that made up a majority in Geneina before they were largely driven out during fighting that began in April last year. The survivors’ group was founded by Mariam Abdulkarim (not her real name), an Arab former high school teacher, without any funding or professional...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1, GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"The women, who work or used to work in education, are all survivors of an ethnically targeted campaign of rape and sexual abuse carried out by fighters from Arab militias backed by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group on 5 November, after the fall of the army garrison in Ardamata. Most of the rape campaign’s victims were from the Masalit community, a darker-skinned ethnic African tribe that made up a majority in Geneina before they were largely driven out during fighting that began in April last year. The survivors’ group was founded by Mariam Abdulkarim (not her real name), an Arab former high school teacher, without any funding or professional...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery" (para 5).
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1
"The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery" (para 5).
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1).
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1).
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1). "Ms. Hala Al-Karib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, has confirmed recent reports, suggesting the real number of victims is likely even higher. 'Our bodies have become weapons of war. It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 3-4). "Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups...more
Variables: SUICIDE-DATA-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1). "Ms. Hala Al-Karib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa, has confirmed recent reports, suggesting the real number of victims is likely even higher. 'Our bodies have become weapons of war. It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 3-4). "Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery. Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups and activists, reported on October 30 that several women have taken their lives in Sudan's...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery. Meanwhile, the BBC, citing rights groups and activists, reported on October 30 that several women have taken their lives in Sudan's...more
Jan. 10, 2025, 3:02 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1). "'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1, GEW-DATA-1
"Over 130 Sudanese women chose to commit mass suicide to escape the threat of rape by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia amid the ongoing civil war in Sudan, Nigerian TV channel News Central TV reported on October 30" (para 1). "'It’s true that women in central Sudan are ending their lives due to the unbearable pain of gang rapes and torture by armed groups'" (para 4). "The UN Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan said on October 29 in a new detailed report that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, who have been fighting the Sudanese Armed Forces in the country’s ongoing conflict, are responsible for committing sexual violence on a large...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-3
"Rape is always devastating, but in Sudan it is also particularly stigmatizing. Of the four women who were publicly raped in Suad’s village, three were then divorced by their husbands; the other was single and will have difficulty marrying, Suad said. One man, Isaak Abdulrahman, whom I met at the border as he arrived after his village had been attacked, wavered when I asked if he would ever allow his son to marry a woman who had been raped. His wife, Samira, piped up to say that she would never tolerate a family marriage to such a girl. 'It would be a shame for our family,' she explained" (para 12-14).more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-3
"Rape is always devastating, but in Sudan it is also particularly stigmatizing. Of the four women who were publicly raped in Suad’s village, three were then divorced by their husbands; the other was single and will have difficulty marrying, Suad said. One man, Isaak Abdulrahman, whom I met at the border as he arrived after his village had been attacked, wavered when I asked if he would ever allow his son to marry a woman who had been raped. His wife, Samira, piped up to say that she would never tolerate a family marriage to such a girl. 'It would be a shame for our family,' she explained" (para 12-14).more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"[T]wo gunmen in Rapid Support Forces uniforms caught her and threw the child on the ground, and then one raped her as her baby wailed. Afterward, she took the child and fled for Chad, but there is a culture of shame and silence around sexual violence and she has not even told her sister" (para 10). "Rape is always devastating, but in Sudan it is also particularly stigmatizing. Of the four women who were publicly raped in Suad’s village, three were then divorced by their husbands; the other was single and will have difficulty marrying, Suad said. One man, Isaak Abdulrahman, whom I met at the border as he arrived...more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"[T]wo gunmen in Rapid Support Forces uniforms caught her and threw the child on the ground, and then one raped her as her baby wailed. Afterward, she took the child and fled for Chad, but there is a culture of shame and silence around sexual violence and she has not even told her sister" (para 10). "Rape is always devastating, but in Sudan it is also particularly stigmatizing. Of the four women who were publicly raped in Suad’s village, three were then divorced by their husbands; the other was single and will have difficulty marrying, Suad said. One man, Isaak Abdulrahman, whom I met at the border as he arrived...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'There is so much rape,' Suad Urqud, a woman crossing from the Darfur region of Sudan with her malnourished daughter, told me. She recounted how an Arab militia called the Rapid Support Forces had publicly raped four women and girls, ages 15 to 20, in her village, to terrorize the community and force Black African ethnic groups to flee" (para 2). "If men go into the fields they are shot dead, Suad said. And if women do, they are raped. So farmers cannot farm, and then their children starve" (para 5). "Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate...more
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"'There is so much rape,' Suad Urqud, a woman crossing from the Darfur region of Sudan with her malnourished daughter, told me. She recounted how an Arab militia called the Rapid Support Forces had publicly raped four women and girls, ages 15 to 20, in her village, to terrorize the community and force Black African ethnic groups to flee" (para 2). "If men go into the fields they are shot dead, Suad said. And if women do, they are raped. So farmers cannot farm, and then their children starve" (para 5). "Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: INFIB-PRACTICE-1, INFIB-DATA-1, INFIB-DATA-2
"Another complication: Some ethnic groups in Sudan practice an extreme form of female genital mutilation called infibulation, in which a young girl’s vulva is mostly sewn together with thread or a wild thorn, with an opening restored only upon marriage" (para 15).
Variables: INFIB-PRACTICE-1, INFIB-DATA-1, INFIB-DATA-2
"Another complication: Some ethnic groups in Sudan practice an extreme form of female genital mutilation called infibulation, in which a young girl’s vulva is mostly sewn together with thread or a wild thorn, with an opening restored only upon marriage" (para 15).
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate policy of rape to terrorize Black African ethnic groups and drive them from Sudan. It is a revival of the mass murder and rape of the Darfur genocide of 20 years ago, and more than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine. Nearly every Sudanese refugee I spoke to on the Chad-Sudan border had witnessed rapes or knew people who had been raped. The victims have mostly been girls and young women, but it...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate policy of rape to terrorize Black African ethnic groups and drive them from Sudan. It is a revival of the mass murder and rape of the Darfur genocide of 20 years ago, and more than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine. Nearly every Sudanese refugee I spoke to on the Chad-Sudan border had witnessed rapes or knew people who had been raped. The victims have mostly been girls and young women, but it...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-DATA-1
"Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate policy of rape to terrorize Black African ethnic groups and drive them from Sudan. It is a revival of the mass murder and rape of the Darfur genocide of 20 years ago, and more than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine. Nearly every Sudanese refugee I spoke to on the Chad-Sudan border had witnessed rapes or knew people who had been raped. The victims have mostly been girls and young women, but it...more
Variables: GEW-DATA-1
"Witness accounts suggest that the sexual violence isn’t just incidental in the chaos of conflict, but rather a deliberate policy of rape to terrorize Black African ethnic groups and drive them from Sudan. It is a revival of the mass murder and rape of the Darfur genocide of 20 years ago, and more than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine. Nearly every Sudanese refugee I spoke to on the Chad-Sudan border had witnessed rapes or knew people who had been raped. The victims have mostly been girls and young women, but it...more
Jan. 8, 2025, 9:59 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Sudanese refugees who wade across a stream to enter Chad mostly say they leave because of starvation at home. But in tearful whispers, they add that something else is also driving both the starvation and the exodus: mass rape" (para 1). "[M]ore than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine" (para 6).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Sudanese refugees who wade across a stream to enter Chad mostly say they leave because of starvation at home. But in tearful whispers, they add that something else is also driving both the starvation and the exodus: mass rape" (para 1). "[M]ore than two million Sudanese have fled their country since it tumbled into civil war last year amid a new explosion of violence and accompanying famine" (para 6).
Dec. 31, 2024, 4:46 p.m.
Countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Croatia, Georgia, Guinea, Guyana, Jamaica, Jordan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Philippines, Romania, Sudan, Thailand, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Variables: IRP-SCALE-1
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Variables: IRP-SCALE-1
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Dec. 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-DATA-1
"Militia fighters who raped and attacked minority groups in Darfur threatened to force them to have 'Arab babies' and used ethnic slurs during their attacks, according to a new UN report. The details of the latest UN fact-finding mission report are accompanied by claims from activists that the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary is attempting a genocide of non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur. The report found fighters from the RSF responsible for sexual violence across Sudan, where they have been fighting the army for control since April 2023, with victims aged between eight and 75. But in Darfur, and particularly against the Masalit ethnic group, victims said there was a clearly...more
Variables: GEW-DATA-1
"Militia fighters who raped and attacked minority groups in Darfur threatened to force them to have 'Arab babies' and used ethnic slurs during their attacks, according to a new UN report. The details of the latest UN fact-finding mission report are accompanied by claims from activists that the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary is attempting a genocide of non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur. The report found fighters from the RSF responsible for sexual violence across Sudan, where they have been fighting the army for control since April 2023, with victims aged between eight and 75. But in Darfur, and particularly against the Masalit ethnic group, victims said there was a clearly...more
Dec. 13, 2024, 7:47 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"In the 18 months since fighting began, the RSF and Sudanese army have fought bitter battles for power across the country, displacing around 14 million people according to the UN, while at least 19,000 people have been killed" (para 13).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"In the 18 months since fighting began, the RSF and Sudanese army have fought bitter battles for power across the country, displacing around 14 million people according to the UN, while at least 19,000 people have been killed" (para 13).
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says. 'As people fled the village, some girls jumped into the Nile to commit suicide - I know four of them personally.' Reports of women killing themselves to avoid rape circulated online as the RSF ambushed town after town in eastern Al Jazira" (p. 9-12). "'After beating us, they locked us in the room and raped our cousins,' one young man from the Al...more
Variables: SUICIDE-PRACTICE-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says. 'As people fled the village, some girls jumped into the Nile to commit suicide - I know four of them personally.' Reports of women killing themselves to avoid rape circulated online as the RSF ambushed town after town in eastern Al Jazira" (p. 9-12). "'After beating us, they locked us in the room and raped our cousins,' one young man from the Al...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Dr Shaza and her family fled their home in Al Hilaliya in eastern Al Jazira and are now living in tents in an empty plot of land in Shendi, a safe city just 150km northeast of Sudan's besieged capital Khartoum" (par. 5).
Variables: CWC-DATA-3
"Dr Shaza and her family fled their home in Al Hilaliya in eastern Al Jazira and are now living in tents in an empty plot of land in Shendi, a safe city just 150km northeast of Sudan's besieged capital Khartoum" (par. 5).
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"A war waged on the bodies of women and girls by a militia hell-bent on conquering the country at every level" (par. 1). "Dr Shaza, a 25-year-old medical volunteer, says: "They came and took girls as young as 11 and 12 and rape them. 'They bring them back completely destroyed and dump them in the yard of the mosque. They were internally bleeding and we could only save some of them'" (par. 2-4). "Her hometown was targeted in a rampage by Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group born out of the janjaweed militias that terrorised civilians during the Darfur genocide and is currently at war with Sudan's army for...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-1
"A war waged on the bodies of women and girls by a militia hell-bent on conquering the country at every level" (par. 1). "Dr Shaza, a 25-year-old medical volunteer, says: "They came and took girls as young as 11 and 12 and rape them. 'They bring them back completely destroyed and dump them in the yard of the mosque. They were internally bleeding and we could only save some of them'" (par. 2-4). "Her hometown was targeted in a rampage by Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group born out of the janjaweed militias that terrorised civilians during the Darfur genocide and is currently at war with Sudan's army for...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3
"In a statement, the RSF told Sky News it categorically denied the allegations. 'Our troops have strict and clear instructions to prioritise the protection of civilians and to ensure that no harm comes to them under any circumstances,' it said. 'It is important to note that we, along with our forces, have only heard of these claims through media reports. To date, no direct or credible evidence has been presented to us regarding these alleged incidents. Should there be any specific and verified information, we would encourage the parties involved to share it with us for further review. The RSF remains committed to upholding international humanitarian and human rights laws...more
Variables: GEW-PRACTICE-3
"In a statement, the RSF told Sky News it categorically denied the allegations. 'Our troops have strict and clear instructions to prioritise the protection of civilians and to ensure that no harm comes to them under any circumstances,' it said. 'It is important to note that we, along with our forces, have only heard of these claims through media reports. To date, no direct or credible evidence has been presented to us regarding these alleged incidents. Should there be any specific and verified information, we would encourage the parties involved to share it with us for further review. The RSF remains committed to upholding international humanitarian and human rights laws...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she says" (p. 9-10).
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she says" (p. 9-10).
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (par. 9-10). "The stigma of being raped in the conservative, honour-based Sudanese society is too much to bear on top of the physical trauma" (par. 13). "SIHA regional director Hala Al Karib says: "90% of the cases we have verified are gang rape cases - women and girls raped by more than one person. 'The way it was done was very bold and...more
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (par. 9-10). "The stigma of being raped in the conservative, honour-based Sudanese society is too much to bear on top of the physical trauma" (par. 13). "SIHA regional director Hala Al Karib says: "90% of the cases we have verified are gang rape cases - women and girls raped by more than one person. 'The way it was done was very bold and...more
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (p. 9-10). "SIHA has confirmed 29 cases of gang rape in Al Jazira's towns since October 2021. Two of the girls were underage, one died from her injuries and another took her own life, later found by their surviving relatives" (p. 19-20).
Variables: LRW-DATA-1
"The make-shift displacement camp she lives in is getting cold as winter takes hold. The bone-chilling experiences survived by the women and girls around her makes life even colder. 'I know 36 women my age who have been raped, sexually harassed and beaten,' she [Dr. Shaza] says" (p. 9-10). "SIHA has confirmed 29 cases of gang rape in Al Jazira's towns since October 2021. Two of the girls were underage, one died from her injuries and another took her own life, later found by their surviving relatives" (p. 19-20).
Dec. 7, 2024, 3:45 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"'I worked in Darfur 20 years ago. I worked with survivors of sexual violence then and saw victims as young as seven years old at the time" (par. 24). This shows there is some help for victims (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-2
"'I worked in Darfur 20 years ago. I worked with survivors of sexual violence then and saw victims as young as seven years old at the time" (par. 24). This shows there is some help for victims (IME - CODER COMMENT).
Dec. 4, 2024, 4:38 p.m.
Countries: Brunei, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda
Variables: PW-LAW-1
"Legal and recognized" (para 18).
Variables: PW-LAW-1
"Legal and recognized" (para 18).
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2
"Both [Chad and Sudan] have outlawed the practice [of FGM] but it continues in secret. The UN children’s agency, Unicef, says that about 87% of Sudanese women aged 14-49 have been cut – one of the highest rates in the world. In Chad, the figure is 34.1%, though rates are higher in the south and east, which is where the camps for Sudanese people have been set up" (2).
Variables: INFIB-DATA-2
"Both [Chad and Sudan] have outlawed the practice [of FGM] but it continues in secret. The UN children’s agency, Unicef, says that about 87% of Sudanese women aged 14-49 have been cut – one of the highest rates in the world. In Chad, the figure is 34.1%, though rates are higher in the south and east, which is where the camps for Sudanese people have been set up" (2).
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Variables: DMW-PRACTICE-1
"Another international aid worker who wished to remain anonymous said curbing FGM in Chad was very difficult because many communities held deep-rooted beliefs that it was an essential part of a girl’s life. 'It’s legally banned but people still do it secretly,' the aid worker said. 'We see many cases of FGM in women when they arrive at hospitals for unrelated health issues. We also learn about it when a cutting goes wrong and girls are transferred to clinics with health complications such as bleeding.' The aid worker situated FGM in the context of the wider violence that Sudanese people have been subjected to in recent years. 'The level of...more
Dec. 3, 2024, 4:25 p.m.
Countries: Sudan
Variables: INFIB-LAW-1
"Both [Chad and Sudan] have outlawed the practice [of FGM] but it continues in secret…FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020" (2, 7).
Variables: INFIB-LAW-1
"Both [Chad and Sudan] have outlawed the practice [of FGM] but it continues in secret…FGM was made illegal in Sudan in 2020" (2, 7).