SUDAN: No standing, few prospects: How peace is failing South Sudanese female combatants and WAAFG

Submitted by crinadmin on Tue, 16/09/2008 - 06:16

A joint publication from the Geneva Call and the Small Arms Survey, documents the range of contributions that women made to the southern rebellion, including as combatants and in many support roles, both voluntary and coerced.

It also reports on the vulnerabilities women and girls faced during the conflict, especially sexual violence, and the failure of the Government of Southern Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) to address the needs of these women through disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes to date, despite stated commitments.

The lessons learned from this research on women’s roles and experiences within the SPLA will help to inform Geneva Call’s engagement strategies with armed non-State actors for the observance of humanitarian norms.

Based on interviews, focus groups, research and analysis conducted by Geneva Call, the report is the 13th Issue Brief from the Small Arms Survey’s Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) project. This can also be downloaded from:
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/portal/spotlight/sudan/Sudan_pdf/SIB-13-no-standing-few-prospects.pdf

For more information about the HSBA project, contact Claire Mc Evoy, Sudan HSBA Project Manager, at [email protected] or +254 738 220008.

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/SIB-13-no-standing-few-prospects[1].pdf

Organisation:

Small Arms Survey Project

Attachment Link:

http://www.crin.org/docs/SIB-13-no-standing-few-prospects[1].pdf

Countries

Sudan

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