It's horrifying; The world has to do something.
Almost 100% of women and girls at aid camps have been raped, cnn reports. Teenagers are reportedly getting raped repeatedly when they go out to collect firewood, and men are afraid to accompany them for fear of getting killed if they object/protect.
"Sudan's Darfur crisis has exploded on many fronts -- violence, hunger, displacement and looting -- but United Nations peacekeepers say the biggest issue now affecting the region is the systematic rape of women and children. Thousands of women -- as young as four -- caught in the middle of the struggle between rebel forces and government-backed militias have become victims of rape, they say, with some aid groups claiming it is being used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing."
Rape is almost always about power.
Power is knowledge, money, violence, authority, and control.
How can we give the victims (and the victimizers) power, to stop this madness.
Making matters worse, aid workers say scores of babies conceived through rape are being dumped by their mothers. "Abandoned babies are reported but because of the stigma attached to it there is no detailed report because the women don't come forward," says Dr Naqib Safi of the U.N. children's body UNICEF. As many as 20 babies a month are being dumped in one camp of 22,000 people.
This is so horrifyingly sad.
Please write the politicians, support aid agencies, spread the word, do something, do a good turn.
Almost 100% of women and girls at aid camps have been raped, cnn reports. Teenagers are reportedly getting raped repeatedly when they go out to collect firewood, and men are afraid to accompany them for fear of getting killed if they object/protect.
"Sudan's Darfur crisis has exploded on many fronts -- violence, hunger, displacement and looting -- but United Nations peacekeepers say the biggest issue now affecting the region is the systematic rape of women and children. Thousands of women -- as young as four -- caught in the middle of the struggle between rebel forces and government-backed militias have become victims of rape, they say, with some aid groups claiming it is being used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing."
Rape is almost always about power.
Power is knowledge, money, violence, authority, and control.
How can we give the victims (and the victimizers) power, to stop this madness.
Making matters worse, aid workers say scores of babies conceived through rape are being dumped by their mothers. "Abandoned babies are reported but because of the stigma attached to it there is no detailed report because the women don't come forward," says Dr Naqib Safi of the U.N. children's body UNICEF. As many as 20 babies a month are being dumped in one camp of 22,000 people.
This is so horrifyingly sad.
Please write the politicians, support aid agencies, spread the word, do something, do a good turn.
Here's an attempt at humor from the onion. Ugh.
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