The UN Special
Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, described the humanitarian situation in Sudan as “catastrophic and worse than imaginable.”
She revealed that sexual violence and systematic rape are being used as a “weapon of war” to destroy the fabric of Sudanese society.
Alsalem noted that systematic sexual violence is not limited to isolated individual cases, but rather constitutes a weapon of war aimed at destroying Sudanese society as a whole. “These violations do not impose their brutality on women alone—who are the direct victims of rape—but also subjugate their male relatives, whom the Rapid Support Forces force to witness these abuses, leaving them powerless to prevent harm to the women in their families and to protect their homes,” she said.
The UN official also pointed to the phenomenon of “economic violence,” which is no less dangerous than other harms caused by the war machine. This includes the looting of homes, theft of crops and gold, and the destruction of infrastructure. She described what is happening as systematic destruction, not merely isolated incidents.
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