The risk of sexual violence is also high within these communities, especially against children who have been internally displaced. On Dec. 2, 2024 in Sudan, 16- year-old Dana* rests on a mattress ...

U NITED NATIONS – UNICEF has released first-of-its-kind research covering more than a decade on sexual violence against children around the world, finding almost a billion victims alive today.

Armed forces in Sudan’s civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from UNICEF ...

Sexual violence is particularly high, the study said, in areas where security is fragile. Boys are also targeted, UNICEF ...

UNICEF says 12 million at risk of sexual violence as Sudan crisis deepens. UN Security Council meets to discuss war’s toll on children as MSF secretary-general slams ‘hollow’ ceasefire calls.

Children make up between 35% to 45% of the nearly 10,000 cases of rape and sexual violence reported January and February this year, James Elder, the spokesperson for UNICEF told reporters in ...

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a Geneva press briefing that the rapes and other forms of sexual violence were being used as "a weapon of war" and were taking place once every 30 minutes on ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Children including toddlers represent more than a third of victims in nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual violence committed in eastern Congo in the first two ...

UNICEF says rape, sexual violence used as ‘weapon of war’ in Congo. April 11, 2025. Children including toddlers represent over a third of nearly 10,000 cases of rape and other forms of sexual ...

UNITED NATIONS – UNICEF has released first-of-its-kind research covering more than a decade on sexual violence against children around the world, finding almost a billion victims alive today.

The issue of sexual violence cuts across geographic, economic, and cultural boundaries, a new UNICEF report has found. If verbal and online abuse are taken into account, the number rises to 650 ...

UNICEF spokesperson James Elder told a Geneva press briefing that the rapes and other forms of sexual violence were being used as "a weapon of war" and were taking place once every 30 minutes on ...