He warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, because hundreds of thousands are left without access to obstetric care or emergency support after rape.
Often suffering from complications of constant distress, malnutrition and physical exhaustion, pregnant women increasingly moved arrive in UN facilities in desperate conditions after months without care, said UNFPA.
Due to persistent insecurity, access and inadequate financing limitations, more than 1.1 million pregnant women in Sudan do not currently have access to prenatal care, safe delivery and post-partum care, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
While the UNFPA recently underwent strong financing reductions, the organization had to reduce services to survivors who escape violence, which closed 11 of its 61 safe spaces in Sudan. Almost a quarter of the population, most of them, women and girls, are now risking sex -based violence.
“The scale and brutality of the violations exceed everything we have previously documented. We have documented many cases of teenage girls who have survived rape and sexual violence,” said Dina, a specialist in sexist violence in Sudan, in The Agency.
“Humanitarian funding cuts are not only budgetary decisions – these are life choices for life,” said Laila Baker, regional director of UNFPA states. “The world turns their back on women and girls in Sudan.”
More than 30 million children suffer from “waste” in 15 countries: WFP
Two United Nations agencies come together to fight waste – the deadliest form in malnutrition – among 33 million children in 15 countries.
The fatal condition is caused by the lack of nutritious food as well as by a frequent disease.
Children who survive waste can still suffer from long -term impacts and devastating, “said World Food Program (WFP), highlighting the need to act quickly and early.
However, the agency said it was difficult in the places where families were uprooted by the violence or extreme weather conditions, such as the state of unit of South Sudan – where Nyanene Gatdoor, a mother of three 25 -year -olds, lives in a travel camp.
Hungry
“When the baby cries in front of you and you have nothing to give him, you feel pain in your heart,” she said, referring to her two-year-old son, Tuach, who cries hungry.
More than three million Sudanese southern Sudanese mothers and children are threatened with malnutrition this year – more than a quarter of the country’s total population.
To help those who need it most, PAM has united its forces with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to eradicate waste in South Sudan and 14 other countries. Together, they represent
The objective includes the delivery of nutritious food to communities and the sharing of key messages on a healthy and cleanliness diet, to avoid getting sick.
Minsk, the capital of Bélarus.
Bélarus: unionists repressed by the “climate of fear”, say the rights experts
Bélarus unions continue to face state repression and detention, the best independent rights experts announced on Thursday.
Experts called for the immediate release of medical and urgent care of the leaders of the imprisoned union, stressing that freedom of association at work is “absent” in Bélarus.
Rights experts, who include Gina Romero, special rapporteur on the rights to the freedom of the Pacific and association, allege that the unions were dissolved after being labeled “extremists”.
Forced to exile
Their leaders and members were also imprisoned, forced from exile and continued outside the Belarus, said Romero.
Many unionists have been without legal protection, their confiscated assets and their voices in silence, insisted the rights experts, who fall under the Human Rights Council.
Development comes in the midst of increasing concerns concerning the prison conditions in Bélarus for opponents of the government.
Experts in matters of rights who are not UN staff highlighted the human impact of the detention of union leaders and asked for their access to independent doctors.
They also called on international missions to visit those detained in prison.
Guatemala violated the rights of the victim of rape of children by forcing it to maternity: the Human Rights Council
On Thursday, the United Nations Human Rights Committee decided to have a case against Guatemala, judging the country violating the rights of a 14 -year -old girl who fell pregnant with rape by forcing her to continue pregnancy on time and maternity.
The daughter was raped several times by an ex-director of the daycare center that she attended to her child who maintained contact with her family.
It was then refused to access an abortion, endured almost deadly delivery and was forced to assume parental responsibilities although it did not want to be involved in child care.
The suffering that the victim endured led to two suicide attempts. The child now lives with the mother of the victim, who has trouble covering his expenses.
Proximity to legal proceedings
After nine years of criminal procedures against the attacker, Guatemala did not investigate the rape properly or has taken effective measures to continue the attacker.
The victim and his family then brought the case to the committee, claiming that Guatemala had violated its rights under the International Alliance on Civil and Political Rights (PICPR).
The committee judged that Guatemala had violated the right of the daughter to live with dignity and reproductive autonomy and submitted it to a treatment comparable to torture, in violation of the treaty.
The committee called on Guatemala to establish a system to follow and treat cases of sexual violence, children’s pregnancy and forced maternity, because the country has one of the highest rates of maternity and forced impunity for sexual violence.
The authorities were also invited to remedy the damage caused to the victim’s life plans, to publicly recognize responsibility and to guarantee education and psychological care for his child.
