Prosecutor: 3,000 child molestation cases in Khartoum state
The head of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Mahmoud Mahdi, has reported that this year there have been 3,000 cases of...
Sudan quashes death sentence for woman who killed husband after rape
On Tuesday the appeal court in Khartoum quashed the death sentence of Noura Hussein who was convicted of murdering her...
Omdurman court sentences rapist of three children to death
The Family and Children's Court in Omdurman issued the death sentence against the man convicted of the rape of three...
Darfur rebels: ‘Defeated Sudanese soldiers rape six girls in Jebel Marra’
The Sudan Liberation Movement of Abdelwahid El Nur leadership (SLM-AW) claims that its forces repulsed two separate attacks on the...
Sudan security ban press conference by condemned woman’s lawyers
The defence attorneys of Noura Hussein, a 19-year-old Sudanese woman sentenced to hang for killing her husband after he allegedly...
‘No death penalty for Noura, whatever the circumstances’: EU to Sudan
The European Union Heads of Mission and the Norwegian and Swiss ambassadors to Sudan have expressed their concern about Noura...
Sudanese woman to hang for killing husband who ‘raped her’
The 19-year-old Sudanese woman who said she was raped by the man she was forced to marry, has been sentenced...
Women’s rights activists to rally at trial of woman condemned for murder after marital rape in Sudan
The Initiative of No Suppression for Women has called on all human rights activists to rally at the Central Omdurman...
UN’s Guterres: ‘Rape remains prevalent in less dangerous Darfur’
Sexual violence remains prevalent in the Darfur region, while the rate of displacement was lower in 2017 than in previous...
Supreme Court: long prison term for Nyala rapist
The Sudanese Supreme Court issued a ruling in support of a South Darfur court sentence against a man convicted for...
South Darfur: ‘Four to six reports of sex assault on children a day in 2017’
Figures from South Darfur on sexual violence against children in 2017 released this week paint a dismal picture, with four...
UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict calls for end to ‘culture of denial’ in Sudan
UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Pramila Patten, has called for an end to the...
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