In a new report, gender-based violence service providers in Sudan paint a searing picture of what children are being subjected to — including rape.

Armed forces in Sudan’s civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from UNICEF, the United Nations’ (UN) children’s agency.

Right now, an estimated 12.1 million women and girls -- and increasingly men and boys -- are at risk of sexual violence,' says Catherine Russell - Anadolu Ajansı

The head of the U.N. children’s program, UNICEF, said Thursday that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering horribly from the country’s civil war, with many facing daily threats of violence, starvation,