Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on Women and Girls

This briefing was submitted to the report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls to the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on violence against mothers. It explains the forms and manifestations of violence experienced by
women and girls because of their status as mothers, particularly as mothers of children born of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) in South Sudan.

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The submission calls for these mothers to be provided with psychosocial support and access to
mental and physical healthcare services in order to both work through the trauma of their rape
and be supported in motherhood. It is important that long-term work is done to ensure that communities learn
to not blame these women for the rape which they have suffered, but instead support and protect them in their motherhood.

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