“Stigma surrounding experience of sexual violence is deeply rooted in Sudan, causing an additional layer of suffering during the crisis,” Muslim Aid's Country Director Dr Harun Issack tells the BBC today.
Our organisation delivers health services in the war-torn nation, where hundreds of recent testimonies of sexual violence on the frontlines have been documented by the MSF NGO (Doctors Without Borders).
“Significant mosques in Sudan are trying now to break this stigma during Friday prayers,” Dr Issack says. “Clerics are beginning to talk about it.”
Our programmes in Sudan are currently geared mainly towards malnutrition support, with millions displaced and hungry, but we're seeing survivors of rape and other forms of sexual violence turn to our health workers for support.
In his BBC interview (starts at 36m.24s), Dr Issack discusses Sudan's “broken” health system and the importance of psychosocial, faith-based and legal means of support:
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