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Content Warning: This email contains stories of sexual violence.

As heavy fighting rages on, sexual violence is soaring in Sudan. Areas under siege and major transit routes have become particular hotbeds for sexual violence targeting women and girls.

Rose, a mother of three, fled violence in Sudan by crossing into South Sudan. But her three daughters stayed behind in Sudan’s capital city. Soon after leaving, Rose learned they had been gang raped.

Rose decided to risk going back to Khartoum in search of her daughters. She found two of them distraught and brutalized, so she rushed them to a hospital. Only later did she find her youngest child on the side of the road, unconscious from being beaten and raped. Her young girl died shortly after.

Rose’s heartbreak is one among countless others, as once again women’s and girls’ bodies become a battleground in a conflict they have no part in creating.

Thanks to your generous support, we are reinforcing our presence on the border between Sudan and South Sudan to reach these women — by sending additional staff and reproductive health supplies, including for maternal health care and the clinical management of rape. In just the first two weeks of July, a one-stop center reached more than 550 survivors, including 200 women and more than 190 girls.

The truth is, more gifts are urgently needed to ramp up our presence of lifesaving care and services while more women and girls are targeted by sexual violence. Please, make a gift of any amount you’re able to deliver lifesaving care in Sudan and in conflict areas around the world. [[link removed]]

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Already terrified by heavy fighting, the threat of further abuse hangs heavy over women and girls fleeing Sudan as they continue their dangerous journeys to reach the border crossing.

Millions are facing mounting, multiplying risks as they try to escape Sudan with their lives. Too many have lost family and loved ones along the way — often in front of their own eyes.

Women report being separated from men at road blocks — with many reporting being sexually assaulted and robbed of their money, food, and belongings.

Even after they cross the border, women and girls are still faced with a dire lack of food, clean water, or any kind of sanitary supplies. Health care is scarce where available at all: One woman recalled seeing a pregnant returnee giving birth on a boat in transit.

Women are selling their clothes and belongings to buy food, while others search for firewood to sell — putting them at further risk of predators as they venture far and often alone into the deserted bush. Even women selling tea at the market and working in restaurants are in danger, with reports of traders exploiting them and coercing them into sex. Most women and children are sleeping outside as there are no formal shelters, only increasing their exposure to violence and abuse.

UNFPA is working across multiple states in neighboring South Sudan to ensure refugees can access sexual and reproductive health support and violence response services. Staff are on the ground in health facilities, womens’ and girls’ safe spaces, and one-stop centers, which offer integrated medical, legal, and psychosocial support for survivors of violence.

But despite continuing to operate, services are severely stretched as more and more people arrive and supplies run low. Help in the form of private donations is urgently needed to support vulnerable women and girls affected by the crisis in Sudan.

Please: Make an emergency gift to help reach UNFPA’s $2 million funding goal for South Sudan and deliver lifesaving care to women and girls fleeing violence. [[link removed]]

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Thank you for taking action. We cannot stop thinking of the women and girls whose needs are too often overlooked during times of conflict.

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