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Evening Standard
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Sophie Wingate

World has failed Sudan sexual violence survivors, Yvette Cooper says

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and actor Carey Mulligan met women fleeing the Sudan war in Chad (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Wire)

The UK is putting £20 million towards helping survivors of sexual violence in the Sudan conflict, as Yvette Cooper said the international community “has failed” the war-torn nation’s women.

The Foreign Secretary criticised the global failure to protect Sudan’s women and girls in what she described as “a war waged on women’s bodies” with “brutal attacks, sexual torture, public rape used as weapons in conflict”.

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