A group of women have issued a declaration calling for an immediate end to violence in their country, and demanded their full inclusion in peace processes meant to silence guns.
Women and children have faced the brunt of the war that broke out in 2023 in Sudan, as rape orgies and malnutrition have punctuated the scourage of violence between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
And those who survived have said the world needs to stop the war and save the vulnerable and their generations. They gathered in Kigali this week in a workshop conducted in partnership with the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals(IRMCT) and Aegis Trust. The gathering included Sudanese survivors of the war.
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