The war on women: A Pax Christi International statement on the situation in Sudan
Dr. Mawa Mohamed presented the following in a webinar sponsored by PAX Christi International on 29 July 2025.
The webinar of 1 hour:26 minutes can be watched in its entirety on YouTube at this link...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwq8XrA2voQ
A brief summary from my notes follows....
The Sudanese are extremely generous and will share their last plate of food with you.
The youth spearheaded a nonviolent protest in 2019 that resulted in the removal of an autocratic president and the institution of a military government that had agreed to turn over to a civilian led government in three years. That never happened and the current war began in 2023 on April 15.
Current weapons of this war include the abuse of women.
- Women have been raped in front of their families and after witnessing this some men have committed suicide.
- Raping women is a means to destroy all of society. A 17 year old woman who had lost both her parents in Khartoum was found living alone and gang raped for four days by soldiers. She became pregnant and wanted to join a group fleeing to another place. When they found out she was pregnant they left her behind.
- Medical clinics refuse to treat women who have been raped.
- 130 young women chose to commit group suicide to avoid being raped which would bring dishonor to their families.
- One woman described her life as a living nightmare.
- Men have been humiliated along with women by stripping them naked and then killing them.
- People have been tortured by locking them in container like boxes until they die
- Weapons of war include starvation, torture, looting and destruction of schools, clinics, universities and other civic institutions.
- 12 million people have been displaced
- At least 180,000 to 200,000 people have died
- 30 million people need food aid and 50% of these are children.
- There is little publicity because all those people working for human rights have been targeted and killed.
The War on Women: A Statement on the situation in Sudan - Please read the statement at the link below and consider the 8 calls to action, including endorsing the statement.
https://paxchristiusa.org/2025/07/19/the-war-on-women-a-pax-christi-international-statement-on-the-situation-in-sudan/
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