Perspective: Why women led the uprising in Sudan
A Sudanese woman chants slogans Friday during a demonstration in Khartoum demanding a civilian body to lead the transition to democracy. By Nasredeen Abdulbari Nasredeen Abdulbari is a doctoral researcher at the Georgetown University Law Center. He was a lecturer in the International and Comparative Law Department, University of Khartoum, as well as a Stoffel Scholar and a Satter Fellow at Harvard Law School.
There is an overarching reason, stemming from the role of women in Sudanese society. But there are particular reasons, too: the ferocious oppression that women have experienced under Bashir’s government, as well as the hardships that they felt as the economy deteriorated.Throughout Sudan’s history, women have played a central role in society. In the ancient Sudanese Nubian kingdoms, women were queens and queen mothers, and they were referred to as “Kandakat,” or strongwomen.
In conflict areas outside Khartoum, the oppression of Bashir’s government against women was more severe, as most of the human rights violations in these districts were committed against women and their children. They have been subjected to sexual violence by government forces or government-supported militias. They have been driven from their homes and now live in miserable conditions in camps for internally displaced people in Darfur and elsewhere.
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