A UN Women report published Thursday showed that as of December, some 6.7 million people in Sudan were in need of services related to gender-based violence, but “this figure is estimated to be even higher today”.
Sudan, which is facing what the UN called on Wednesday “the world’s largest hunger crisis”, is home to 5.8 million internally displaced women and girls, who UN Women said were acutely vulnerable.
As famine threatens displaced populations across the country, “women are eating least and last”, the report warned.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk warned Thursday that, “if El-Fasher falls, there is a high risk of ethnically-targeted violations and abuses, including summary executions and sexual violence, by the RSF and allied militia”.
