On this International Day of Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, we must recognize both the suffering and the resilience of Sudanese women in the face of the unspeakable brutality they have endured while continuing to rise. We are extremely alarmed and outraged by the deliberate and systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of genocide against women and children in Sudan, and we wish to raise the alarm about the catastrophic trajectory of this crisis if the world continues to look away. For more than three years, the people of Sudan—especially the women and children of Darfur and Kordofan—have faced a deliberate and systematic campaign of extermination, displacement, imposed starvation, and sexual violence at the hands of the genocidal paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
See below the statement issued by Darfur Women Action Group.
