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Strength,
Survival and Resilience: The Women of Darfur "Women
are bearing the brunt of the burden caused by the conflict in
West Darfur. There are currently 710,000 displaced people
living in camps and settlements throughout the state. Women
– mothers and wives -- are holding these families
together." By Sarah O'Boyle, Concern's Information
Officer based in El Geneina, West Darfur.
Violence
Against Women
A statement from the Society for Threatened People, 58th
Session of the Commission of Human Rights, Item no. 12a of the
Agenda, Geneva, March 2002
Girls
From Sudan's War Now Learn to Fight
"I
need education," said the barefoot girl under the mango
tree, tough and muscular from her years with a rebel group.
Her left ankle is still scarred from a bullet wound.
"I was born during Sudan's war," she said, adjusting
her cracked plastic headband over a clump of matted braids.
"I am a child of war."
Maternal
Mortality
Even
at age 23, even after eight other pregnancies, even after she
almost died from hemorrhaging during her previous delivery,
Akok could not resist the overwhelming demands from her family
and her society -- trying to rebuild after 21 years of civil
war -- to help replace those lost during fighting.
Sudanese
Women as Victims of War
By
UN statistics, about 1.8 million southerners were forced by
the prolonged strife to desert their villages and townships
and flock to refuges in the north as displaced citizens. The
majority of these are innocent women and children.
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