Stop Violence Against Women
A group of women walk into the Internally Displaced Camp (IDP) of Mourni, carrying loads of firewood. Much of the violence perpetrated in the Darfur conflict has resulted in grave human rights violations against women. © Cris Bouroncle/AFP/Getty Images
Support the International Criminal Court: Justice Now for the Women and Girls of Darfur
Thousands of girls and women have been raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence in Darfur. Inquiries by the Prosecutor of the ICC identified “high numbers of…mass rapes and other forms of extremely serious gender violence”, and a U.N. Commission of Inquiry found that these abuses amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. However, authorities in Sudan have refused to comply with ICC requests or otherwise allow the Court to conduct investigations in Darfur.
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- Background: The Crisis in Darfur
- When two armed groups, from ethnic groups of the farming population, started fighting the government security forces in February 2003, complaining about the marginalization of Darfur and lack of protection for the sedentary population, the government of Sudan exploited the existing tensions in the region. It supported militias from Arabic-speaking nomadic groups that carried out attacks on the villages of the sedentary, largely African, farming groups. Learn more »
