الترجمة الإنجليزية لكلمة الدكتورة فاطمة مصطفى في المنتدى الدائم العالمي للشعوب الأصلية

International Permanent Forum of Indigenous People , April 2024 , United Nation ,New York US .

Statement by Fatima Ahmed , President of Zenab for Women Development , Sudan

Indigenous people in Sudan face many
challenges that are deeply rooted in historical, social, and economic factors.these include :

1- The Land Rights and Displacement, Indigenous communities experience land dispossession due to continuous conflicts in Sudan , also agricultural expansion, mining, and infrastructure development. This leads to displacement and loss of traditional livelihoods , beside :
2-Cultural Erasure
3- Marginalization and Political Exclusion ,
4- Access to Basic Services Many indigenous communities struggle with inadequate access to healthcare, education, and clean water. This lead to a of cycles of poverty and limit development opportunities.
5- Environmental Degradation Many indigenous communities depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Environmental degradation from conflicts industrial activities and climate change cause significant threats to their way of life.
6- Conflict and Violence is big challenge because most of the indigenous groups in Sudan are caught in ongoing conflicts, especially this war which been going on for two years causing loss of lives of hundreds of thousand of civilians beside all kind of violation including sexual abuses for women and girls thousands of women and girls actually sexual violence been used as weapon of war , this war fought on the bodies of the women , rape , slaves sex , forced marrisge , abduction of thousands women and girls been going on for two years now , massive displacements in side Sudan or our side in different Nhiobting Countries estimated by the UN agencies that 9 million been displaced majority are women , children and elderly and 25 million in needs to humanatarian assistance which described by the UN as the worse humanatarian crises in the World yet with very minimal attention in terms of resources for humanatarian aid and also no media attention .
We as Sudanese Indiginous women and Indiginous women led organizations call for immoderate and urgent action to stop this war , to protect the civilian , and to mobilize the necessary resources for humanatarian aid this include to fund the local initiatives as first responders which are working on the ground this include the Indiginous groups including women led organization , youth groups and others also to fund the UN agencies and the INGOs to help Sudanese IDPs inside and out side Sudan . Thank you so much .