Thank you for the question.
Sexual violence is routinely part of conflict, as many people in the room will know. In Sudan, women and girls have been horrifically assaulted. It is used to humiliate, to terrorize, to demoralize and to dehumanize. It is used as a weapon of war. It was used as a weapon of war in Israel on October 7, so there are linkages there as well.
Mothers are being attacked in front of their children, raped in front of their children, including nursing mothers. Nurses are being sexually assaulted as well. Children, frankly, at ages that I can't bring myself to discuss here, are being savagely assaulted as well.