Gender alert: No excuse: Calling for an end to gender-based violence in Sudan | Publications

Greater than 11 million individuals have been displaced amid the battle in Sudan as of October 2024, with greater than half (54 per cent) being ladies and women. An estimated 12 million individuals are at the moment susceptible to gender-based violence, as described on this new Gender Alert by UN Girls. 

Documented circumstances of mass and systemic rape spotlight the usage of sexual violence as a weapon of battle, leaving survivors in dire want of medical, psychological, and social assist. Since December 2023, the variety of survivors of gender-based violence, together with conflict-related sexual violence, looking for providers elevated by 288 per cent, illustrating the scope of the disaster. Proof exhibits that ladies and women from ethnic minority teams are being intentionally focused.