The Trail Of Blood: Violence Against Women In Sudan

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In the country Sudan the civilians there are facing many difficulties and struggles in their everyday life. The army veteran Omar al-Bashir had seized power in 1989 with the support of the military. This was a huge reason all the horrible things kept happening after decades. His stated goal was to create a “new Sudan” defined by the Arab identity underneath the severe Islamic law. It very quickly became clear that his plan existed only to protect his government’s own power from harm or injury. The Sudanese government has planned out a variety of systematic campaigns of cruel abuse against all those who have stood in its way. The trail of blood goes far beyond Sudan’s borders though. Widespread of human rights violations and abuses by the government …show more content…
Women in Sudan are mostly at risk of harm, sexual and gender-based violence, being raped and beaten; which is a regular phenomenon. Women are the ones with a high risk of these violations happening because in Sudan women have strict rules on how they represent their self’s and are just treated so poorly if not followed correctly. “The public order law is imposed in a way which is hugely discriminatory and totally inappropriate and violates women’s rights” (Jackson, 2015). Violence against women, including rape, remains widespread, particularly in Darfur in and around camps for internally displaced persons. Throughout Sudan, the government regularly represses human rights defenders, political opponents and ordinary civilians, subjecting many to torture and other forms of ill-treatment. The fact that the girls and women always face gender-based discrimination that puts them at increased risk of violence, poverty, as well as ill health and a poor education. Gender-based violence stems from the failure of societies and governments to recognize the human rights of women. So the government has a part into why women are so harshly violated in …show more content…
. They’re killing and hurting innocent people. “They even killed young children and old men” (“Escalation of violence”, 2015). Sudanese Armed forces have been instructing the people to bring out all their property and took away anything that was at any value to them. Almost all of the civilians question if their lives even do matter. Since armed conflict began in June 2011 between the Sudanese Government and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLM/A-N), people living in SPLA-N controlled areas of Sudan’s South Kordofan state have endured an unrelenting campaign of aerial and ground attacks by the Sudan Armed Forces. As the conflict begins into its fifth year, Amnesty International urges the Government of Sudan, the SPLM/A-N, and other governments to take very quick steps to abolish all violations of international human rights law, open up access to humanitarian relief, and give the human rights of the people of South Kordofan. In the January 2011 referendum, the Sudanese people chose quickly to create South Sudan as an independent state. The Republic of South Sudan (RoSS), which celebrated its independence on July 9th, faces enormous challenges heightened by its legacy of prolonged civil war and major underdevelopment. Sudan people are taking all these steps and creating different groups against the government to try and stop all the unrelenting

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