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Speaking up for the women of Sudan, Congo, and Palestine

Before you read: There are a lot of articles regarding the difficult topic of sexual assault, sexual abuse, and rape. Please be prepared before reading further.

Women around the world need your voice, support, and activism. In Palestine, Sudan, and Congo women are being killed, raped, enslaved, tortured, starved, bombarded, attacked, and silenced. Extend your activism to all women because all women are affected through inaction and isolated activism. If you care about women’s rights, show your support and share these articles about the violence women in Sudan, Congo, and Palestine must live through. These are not easy topics, but this is what these women exist in and have no escape from the unrelenting threat of violence and death.

News from Sudan

The violence and rape of innocent Sudanese women and girls by the RSF is still ongoing with no end in sight. The healthcare system has collapsed in Sudan so there is little help for Sudanese women and girls who are raped or attacked.

UN News: Sudan: women and girls abducted, held ‘in slave-like conditions’ in Darfur

Reuters: Sudanese women describe being gang-raped in attacks by Arab forces

The Guardian: "They told us- you are slaves”: survivors give harrowing testimony of Darfur’s year of hell

Al Jazeera: “No way to leave”: Sudan paramilitary traps civilians in breadbasket state

The New Arab: Sudan: women fear sexual violence as Wad Madani falls to RSF

VOA News: In Sudan, Health Care Crisis Looms for Unborn, Newborn as Conflict Escalates

Al Jazeera: Sexual violence still a major threat as Sudan’s conflict grinds on

News from the Democratic Republic of Congo

Women and girls in the Congo are being raped and killed by the M23 rebels who are attacking Congo. Congolese women have also been sexually exploited and abused by UN peacekeepers. Even those sent to protect and help Congolese women and girls are sexually abusing them.

HRW: DR Congo: Killings, Rapes by Rwanda-backed M23 Rebels

VOA News: UN Says Gender-Based Violence in DRC is increasing

AP: Documents show the WHO paid sexual abuse victims in Congo $250 each

UN News: DR Congo: UN peacekeepers suspended over serious misconduct charges

Amnesty International: A Year of Anguish: Remembering the Killings and Sexual Violence in Kishishe

Care.org: Health sector in DRC crumbles amidst conflict negatively impacting survivors of sexual assault

News from Palestine

There is no healthcare for women or girls or medicine. Pregnant women have been shot and killed outside of hospitals and must give birth via c-section or vaginally with no anesthesia or medicine. Newborn infants have been left to die by the IDF when they forced out parents and medical officials. There is no access to sanitary pads or medications. Women and girls are being imprisoned and subjected to sexual assault and torture by the IDF.

Al Jazeera: Why are so many Palestinian women being killed in Israel’s war on Gaza?

Al Jazeera: No privacy, no water: Gaza women use period-delaying pills amid Israel war

The Guardian: ‘Going to hospital meant risking our lives’: the terror of giving birth in Gaza

Al Jazeera: 50,000 women pregnant in Gaza amid ‘decimation’ of its health system

Relief Web: Israel required by law to reveal the fate of dozens of women arrested in Gaza, intl. community must investigate images and claims of torture and harassment

The New Arab: Lack of hygiene products threatens Gaza women with disease

What can you do to help?

  1. Share these news articles.

  2. Donate to charities directly contributing to each country

  3. Demand embargoes and sanctions for: Israel, the US, the UAE, Rwanda, and Uganda. Contact your elected officials and demand embargoes and sanctions for each country and those involved in aiding these war crimes and genocides.

  4. Boycott- support the BDS boycott, do not purchase new electronic devices, do not purchase a new EV, do not purchase new solar panels, do not purchase new gold items

  5. Speak up everyday for these women and girls

From the river to the sea, may the whole world be free.

Protest. Boycott. Contact your elected officials and demand embargoes and sanctions (see above). Vote 3rd party. Volunteer. BE UNGOVERNABLE. Share the stories. Share the news. Share the history. Please extend the same energy to other people and countries facing genocide and atrocities- the Rohingyas, Armenians, the Uyghurs, and West Papua.

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South Africa for the Win! South Africa calls for a Genocide Convention in the World Court.