Sudan War and Sexual Violence Against Women:
As Sudan’s civil war enters its fourth year, a new UN Women report has warned that sexual violence against women and girls has quadrupled since the conflict began.The Sudan war began in April 2023 as an armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group.The conflict has evolved into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, marked by mass displacement, famine, ethnic violence, and systematic sexual violence used as a weapon of war.
