{"id":30125,"date":"2023-11-30T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/widespread-sexual-violence-used-as-tool-of-war-in-sudan-un-experts\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:36:10","slug":"widespread-sexual-violence-used-as-tool-of-war-in-sudan-un-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/widespread-sexual-violence-used-as-tool-of-war-in-sudan-un-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Widespread sexual violence used as \u2018tool of war\u2019 in Sudan: UN experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Widespread and in some cases ethnically motivated sexual violence is being used in conflict-ravaged Sudan as \u201ca tool of war\u201d, a dozen UN experts said on Thursday, demanding that perpetrators be held accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Since April, forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan \u2014 Sudan\u2019s de facto head of state \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1747789\">have been at war<\/a> with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.<\/p>\n<p>Over 10,000 people have been killed, according to a conservative estimate from the Armed Conflict and Event Data Project, and the UN says 6.3 million more have been forced to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--left  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1749217\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are appalled by reports of widespread use of gender-based violence, including sexual violence, as a tool of war to subjugate, terrorise, break and punish women and girls,\u201d the independent United Nations rights experts said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>The experts, including the special rapporteurs on violence against women and girls and sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children, said RSF forces and their allies appeared to be behind most of the sexual violence seen in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed to reports of rapes, sexual exploitation, slavery and trafficking, which \u201cin some cases may have been racially, ethnically and politically motivated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There had also been reports of forced prostitution and forced marriage of women and girls, they said.<\/p>\n<p>The violence appeared often to be used \u201cas a means of punishing specific communities targeted by the RSF and allied militias,\u201d the experts said, adding that in some cases non-Sudanese migrants, refugees and stateless persons had also been targeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese serious acts are reportedly no longer concentrated in Khartoum or Darfur, but have spread to other parts of the country, such as Kordofan,\u201d they warned.<\/p>\n<p>They called for a newly established UN fact-finding mission for Sudan to investigate in a bid to ensure that perpetrators are held accountable.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--left  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1749217\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The experts, who are appointed by the UN Human Rights Council but do not speak on behalf of the UN, warned that the scale and seriousness of the sexual violence was \u201cgrossly underreported\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world must not turn a blind eye to the atrocities and large-scale sexual violence unfolding in Sudan,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international community must send a strong and clear message to parties to the conflict that they will be held accountable for their actions and violations of international humanitarian and human rights law,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widespread and in some cases ethnically motivated sexual violence is being used in conflict-ravaged Sudan as \u201ca tool of war\u201d, a dozen UN experts said on Thursday, demanding that perpetrators be held accountable. 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