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Over 200 Sudanese Women Sexually Assaulted in Darfur Camp Over 5-Week Period
The International Rescue Committee released a report this week documenting an alarming rise in instances of sexual violence in Darfur. According to the IRC, more than 200 female residents of one refugee camp have been victims of sexual assault in the past five weeks alone.
* Heidi Lehmann technical advisor for Gender-Based Violence programs at the International Rescue Committee. She recently worked to set up programs in Darfur, and returned from Sudan just last month.
On the issue of rape as a weapon of war, before the show we reached Jane Alao Odo. Jane is originally from the South of Sudan. She was displaced from the south early in her life. In 2004 she co-founded the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. In addition to providing medical support for victims, the Amel Center has attempted to prosecute the perpetrators of rape and torture. Jane talked about the legal obstacles to holding perpetrators of rape accountable, and she also described some of the long-term effects of systematic rape on society.
* Jane Alao Odo, co-founder of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. She joins us on the line from southern Darfur.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/25/143202
On the issue of rape as a weapon of war, before the show we reached Jane Alao Odo. Jane is originally from the South of Sudan. She was displaced from the south early in her life. In 2004 she co-founded the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. In addition to providing medical support for victims, the Amel Center has attempted to prosecute the perpetrators of rape and torture. Jane talked about the legal obstacles to holding perpetrators of rape accountable, and she also described some of the long-term effects of systematic rape on society.
* Jane Alao Odo, co-founder of the Amel Center for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Victims of Torture. She joins us on the line from southern Darfur.
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/25/143202
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