{"id":197192,"date":"2025-05-01T11:54:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-body-as-a-battlefield-sexual-violence-in-sudan-is-a-deliberate-genocidal-tactic\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T11:54:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:54:37","slug":"sudan-the-body-as-a-battlefield-sexual-violence-in-sudan-is-a-deliberate-genocidal-tactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-body-as-a-battlefield-sexual-violence-in-sudan-is-a-deliberate-genocidal-tactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;The Body As a Battlefield&#8217; &#8211; Sexual Violence in Sudan Is a &#8216;Deliberate Genocidal Tactic&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Washington D.C. \u2014 <em>The systematic use of gender-based violence (GBV) against women in Sudan, particularly in Darfur, is not an unavoidable byproduct of conflict but &#8220;a deliberate genocidal tactic&#8221; aimed at destroying communities, experts argued during an online panel discussion hosted last month by the Darfur Women&#8217;s Action Group (DWAG).<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The panel, titled &#8216;Protection, Inclusion, and Empowerment of Sudanese Women&#8217;, brought together activists, legal scholars, and genocide prevention specialists,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010008.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington D.C. \u2014 The systematic use of gender-based violence (GBV) against women in Sudan, particularly in Darfur, is not an unavoidable byproduct of conflict but &#8220;a deliberate genocidal tactic&#8221; aimed at destroying communities, experts argued during an online panel discussion hosted last month by the Darfur Women&#8217;s Action Group (DWAG). The panel, titled &#8216;Protection, Inclusion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,11645,7978,20023,46345,257,9796,254,4708,1613,30150,2148],"class_list":["post-197192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battlefield","tag-body","tag-deliberate","tag-genocidal","tag-news","tag-sexual","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tactic","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}