“For nearly a year now, accounts coming out of Sudan have been of death, suffering and despair, as the senseless conflict and human rights violations and abuses have persisted with no end in sight,” said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. By mid-December, more than 6.7 million people had been displaced by the conflict – both within Sudan and into neighbouring countries. Many of the rapes, according to the report, were committed by RSF members, in homes and on the streets. African ethnic communities, including the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa also reportedly responded to recruitment campaigns by the SAF, the report finds. Read the full report (Advance unedited version in English)Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
