He warned that without immediate support, women and girls will continue to pay the price of this crisis with their lives, since hundreds of thousands remain without access to emergency obstetric care after rape.
Constant anguish
Often suffer complications due to constant anguish, malnutrition and physical exhaustion, more and more displaced pregnant women arrive at UN facilities in desperate conditions after months without attention, said UNFPA.
Due to persistent insecurity, access limitations and inadequate financing, more than 1.1 million pregnant women in Sudan currently lack access to prenatal care, safe delivery and postpartum care, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
As UNFPA recently underwent strong fund cuts, the organization has had to reduce services to survivors who escape violence, closing 11 of its 61 safe spaces in Sudan. Almost a quarter of the population, most of them women and girls, now run the risk of gender violence.
“The scale and brutality of the violations are beyond everything we have documented previously. We have documented numerous cases of adolescents who have survived sexual violation and violation,” said Dina, a gender violence specialist in Sudan, to the agency.
“The cuts to humanitarian financing are not only budgetary decisions, but they are life and death options,” said Laila Baker, regional director of the Arab States of the UNFPA. “The world is turning its back on the women and girls of Sudan.”
More than 30 million children suffer from ‘loss’ in 15 countries: PMA
Two UN agencies come together to address the loss, the most fatal way of malnutrition, among 33 million children in 15 countries.
The potentially deadly condition is caused by the lack of nutritious foods along with a frequent disease.
Children who survive waste can suffer “long -term and devastating impacts,” said the World Food Program (PMA), highlighting the need to act quickly and early.
However, the agency said this is difficult in places where families have been uprooted by extreme violence or climate, such as the state of the South Sudan Unit, where Nyanene Gatdoor, a three -year -old mother, lives in a displacement camp.
Screams of hunger
“When the baby cries in front of you, and you have nothing to give him, you feel pain in your heart,” he said, referring to his two -year -old son, Tuach, who cries hungry.
More than three million mothers and children from souths are at risk of malnutrition this year, that is more than a quarter of the country’s total population.
To help the most needy, PMA has joined forces with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to eradicate waste in South Sudan and 14 other countries. Together, they represent
The objective includes delivering nutritional food to communities and sharing key messages about healthy eating and cleaning, to avoid getting sick.
Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Belarus: trade unionists repressed by ‘Climate of fear’, says the rights experts.
The unions in Belarus continue to face the repression and detention of the State, the main experts in independent rights said on Thursday.
Experts requested the immediate release of urgent medical care for imprisoned union leaders, emphasizing that freedom of association at work is “absent” in Belarus.
The rights experts, which include Gina Romero, a special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of the Pacific Assembly and the Association, claim that exchanges unions have dissolved after being labeled as labeling as “extremist.”
Forced into exile
Its leaders and members have also been imprisoned, forced into exile and processed while they are out of Belarus, Romero said.
Many unionists have run out of legal protections, their confiscated assets and their silenced voices, insisted on rights experts, informed of the Human Rights Council.
Development occurs in the midst of growing concerns about prison conditions in Belarus for government opponents.
The experts of rights who are not the UN staff highlighted the human impact of detaining union leaders and asked to be given access to independent doctors.
They also asked for international missions to be allowed to visit those carried out in prison.
Guatemala violated the rights of the victim of child violation by forcing her to motherhood: the Human Rights Council
On Thursday, the UN Human Rights Committee decided a case against Guatemala, ruling the country violated the rights of a 14 -year -old girl who became pregnant with the violation by forcing her to continue the pregnancy at term and motherhood.
The girl was repeatedly raped by a former director of the Nursery Center that she attended as a girl who maintained contact with her family.
Then he was denied access to an abortion, suffered an almost fatal delivery and was forced to assume parents’ responsibilities despite not wanting to participate in the child’s care.
The suffering suffered by the victim led two suicide attempts. The child now lives with the victim’s mother, who is struggling to cover his expenses.
Almost decade of legal procedures
After nine years of criminal procedures against the author, Guatemala did not properly investigate the violation or took effective measures to process the author.
The victim and her family then brought the case to the committee, claiming that Guatemala violated her rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
The committee ruled that Guatemala violated the girl’s right to live with reproductive dignity and autonomy and submitted it to a treatment comparable to torture, in violation of the treaty.
The committee asked Guatemala to establish a system to track and address cases of sexual violence, child pregnancy and forced maternity, since the country has one of the highest rates of forced maternity and impunity for sexual violence.
The authorities were also urged to repair the damage caused to the life plans of the victim, publicly recognize responsibility and guarantee education and psychological care for their child.
