Violence against women in Darfur increasing

Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, says that sexual violence against women in Darfur is getting worse.

“The situation (in Darfur) is poor, bad and very alarming and what is particularly sad is to see no progress and a deterioration of the situation,” said Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
“I am absolutely persuaded that the sexual violence against women … is worsening every day,” Arbour told Reuters in an interview in Khartoum on Wednesday.

Arbour recently ended a tour of the region.
For more information about women in Darfur, go to Amnesty International.