Church seek ending stigmatize survivors of gender-based violence in South Sudan

By Council of Churches (SSCC)

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 06/29/2019, 01:00 Time

USPA NEWS - Some survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan are condemned and rejected by their families, and the country’s Council of Churches (SSCC) wants this stigmatization of survivors of conflict-related sexual violence to end.
“They are ostracized and relegated to the margins of society, turning them into outcasts,” said Archbishop Reverend Justin Badi Arama of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict marked annually on 19 June. The prelate was reading a joint statement in the capital, Juba, to members of the diplomatic community and non-governmental organisations sympathetic to the rising numbers of cases of sexual and gender-based violence.

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