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YIDA - 31 Oct 2013

Domestic-based violence rampant among Nuba refugees in South Sudan’s Yida camp

The Women Affairs Coordinator at the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan’s Unity state criticises the “increasing and persisting domestic-based violence” among the Nuba Mountains refugees.

The Coordinator, Hosna Ibrahim, told Radio Tamazuj, that mostly women and children are prone to excessive abuses by their relatives, in particular minor girls without parents. For this reason, Ibrahim said, large numbers of children prefer living in the streets than staying with their families in the camps.

She also deplored the absence of social welfare facilities. The women in Yida camp, she explained, were eager to carry out beneficial activities but were hindered by a lack funding.

Ibrahim appealed to the Nuba people in Diaspora to support the empowerment of women and children in the refugee camps.  

Photo: A mural in Yida refugee camp painted by the Nuba artist Babo Tio, on the occasion of a campaign against gender-based violence, 8 December 2012 (Radio Tamazuj)