IPPF: 8,000 Women Raped in Sudan
Sudan Events – Rehab Abdullah
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) has announced, as per statement of Al-Shafi’ Mohammad Ali, Executive Director of the Sudan Family Planning Association (Saturday), that after nearly ten months of war in Sudan, rates of violence against women have risen in a very frightening way, especially conflict-related sexual violence, kidnappings, forced disappearances, and women forced and coerced to help militants.
He stated that the International Planned Parenthood Federation in London is very concerned about the frequent news about the existence of slavery markets, in which women are sold in many areas in Darfur by the rebel militia. He stated that the IPPF is developing its plan with partners from the regional office to assist and assist women and girls who have been sexually exploited and rehabilitate them psychologically and socially
Salima Ishaq Al-Khalifa, Director General of the Unit for Combating Violence against Women, revealed that there are no statistics for all cases of kidnapping and sexual assault of women and girls, given that the statistics come from partners in civil society and various institutions specialized in family and community protection. She revealed the presence of women detained by Rapid Support Forced (RSF) who are being sexually exploited. Salima announced that the cases of rape that have been monitored so far are more than 143, representing 2% compared to the number of women exposed to kidnapping and sexual exploitation in war. Salimi Al-Khalifa said that cases of kidnapping and assault are considered systematic incidents with an interconnected scenario, revealing that there are other cases that have not been recorded because they did not come through health centers and were not reported. On the other hand, the Sudanese Observatory for Human Rights revealed that the rebel RSF militia raped more than 8,000 Sudanese women and looted more than a million homes in Khartoum State.
