We are launching the “War on Women’s Bodies in Sudan” campaign during the period from Thursday, February 29 to March 6, 2024, during which Sudanese women stand together and join hands on their long road to rights. We will be publishing information, videos, posters, and host a live discussion on the social media pages of the groups organized the campaign on March 6th. Please join us and share the messages and amplify the voices of Sudanese women.
Please follow the campaign on these accounts:
@whrdmena , @noonforwomen , @ganoubia @SWURA1
Launching Statement
Since the outbreak of the war in Sudan on 15 April 2024, Sudanese women have been caught between the hammer of direct militarized violence and the anvil of gender-based violence, as they pay double prices in a war whose leaders described it as an absurd war. Since last year, several international and local reports have been issued about the catastrophic conditions in Sudan, where Sudanese men and women live amid what the United Nations described as the largest ongoing displacement crisis in the world, with 10.7 million displaced people. Various reports from multiple sources that specifically address the situation of Sudanese women indicated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out kidnappings, detention, slavery, and various forms of sexual abuse, in addition to electronic threats and harassment, leading to sexual slavery, mass rapes, and assassinations. The current situation has also worsened, represented by a continuous interruption, and cut of the telecommunications and the Internet in Sudan for nearly a month now, which led to the situation getting worse and imposed additional isolation on Sudanese women who are already isolated from the world, without the ability to check on their families and loved ones in different regions. Likewise, in the absence of banking applications, which serve as an economic backbone in the context of armed robbery of everything tangible and which injects life into an economy paralyzed by war, women pay the tax of the state’s withdrawal from providing services, taking care of children who have stopped going to school, nursing those who have had hospital doors shut in their faces and those who sustained permanent disabilities by the war, support themselves and their families, search for the missing and forcibly disappeared, and resist militarization by living in extremely difficult economic and security conditions.
Despite the darkness and to fight against this blatant injustice, Noon Feminist Movement, Ganoubia Hora Foundation, the Sudanese Women’s Rights Action Organization (SUWRA) and the Regional Coalition for Women Human Rights Defenders in Southwest Asia and North Africa (WHRDMENA) are launching the “War on Women’s Bodies in Sudan” campaign during the period from Thursday, February 29 to March 6, 2024, during which Sudanese women stand together and join hands on their long road to rights. It also calls on everyone to become partners in putting pressure on all elements of the regional and international community to pay attention to Sudanese women and men, and to remind the world of Sudanese women and Sudan and what they face in this protracted war, or to stop claiming the end of colonialism, multiculturalism, and the universality of human rights. We are approaching the goals of this campaign through joint work with fellow defenders and feminists across borders, and we are harnessing our voices to convey other voices that have been forcibly disappeared, voices that have become hoarse from chants and prayer, and others that have been forever absent by death. We are launching a “War on Women’s Bodies in Sudan” to restore respect for their humanity, the humanity of the world, and the value of feminist solidarity.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
#SudanLiberation
