12
Mar
2025
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Severe political, humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan, in particular the sexual violence and child rape
Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the debate that has just taken place this evening shows this: Sexual violence, including the use of rape as a weapon of war, must cease. The collective indifference around these acts is simply unacceptable. Moreover, since the Sudan War in 2023, more than a million people have fled the fighting to Chad, which, I recall, is one of the poorest countries in the world. At the end of February, I visited the Adré camp in eastern Chad, where a large number of Sudanese refugees live in precarious living conditions, despite the important work of NGOs. Humanitarian aid needs are immense and funding is either cut, like U.S. funding, insufficient, or at risk. We must live up to it and the European Union must help these millions of people, who need it most.