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Sudan Urged to Ensure Justice for Raped Women Protesters

Reuters

   NAIROBI - Sudanese women were a driving force during months of protests
   that ousted veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir, but the sexual violence
   they endured risks being forgotten with the signing of a power-sharing
   deal, women's rights activists said Thursday.

   Action must be taken to address scores of rapes committed during a
   deadly crackdown by security forces in Juneand ongoing sexual
   harassment on Sudan's streets today, they said.

   "There has been much recognition for the role that women have played in
   Sudan's revolution, but now no one is addressing the sacrifices we have
   made," said Hala Al-Karib of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the
   Horn of Africa.

   "We have numerous cases of rape committed by security forces, but still
   the same perpetrators are out on the streets of Sudan today, harassing
   and intimidating women -- and nothing is being done to stop them," she
   said from Khartoum.

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