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Starvation - Children
Women are willing to endure anything to ensure the survival of their children. Stories of women who leave the safety of the camps in a desperate measure to feed themselves and their families simply to be raped and beaten are widespread.
- CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour reports, "Two and three year old children at an emergency feeding center in Darfur weigh as much as the average three month old infant in the United States.
- The French relief group, Doctors Without Borders, estimates the one in five children in western Darfur is severely malnourished.
- For the first time since 2004, the malnutrition rate, a gauge of the population's overall distress, has crossed what United Nations officials consider to be the emergency threshold."
- Women also feel as though they are not fit to be mothers because their inability to produce milk to nurse their young: "stress, lack of food, and dehydration have made many of these women unable to produce milk to nurse their infants and children... this situation has contributed to malnutrition, and even starvation, of the youngest and most vulnerable of the refugee camp population."
Women are willing to endure anything to ensure the survival of their children. Stories of women who leave the safety of the camps in a desperate measure to feed themselves and their families simply to be raped and beaten are widespread. 