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STORY: UN / SUDAN POPULATION FUND PRESSER
TRT: 4:49
SOURCE: UNIFEED / FILE
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT UNFPA FOOTAGE ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 17 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
17 APRIL 2026, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press briefing room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan:
“Here women and girls across Sudan are telling a consistent story of continued experience of danger and risks where gender-based violence is their present daily live, along the road as they try to flee from the active conflict, as well as they arrive in the displacement camps, no matter where, they feel unsafe.”
4. Wide shot, press briefing room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan:
“Women and girls have a persistent sense of danger. 76 percent of the women aged between 25 and 49 have reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside the camps, in markets, water points, in firewood collection areas, roads and streets, particularly at night when going to the latrines in distribution areas, and equally in urban and rural areas.”
6. Wide shot, press briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan:
“Now, the reporting cases of gender-based violence remains extremely difficult. As the report assessment when that we've done reports. And this is due particularly to stigma, from their families, the communities, the fear of retaliation, the financial constraints, as well as the distance from the service provision.”
8. Wide shot, press briefing room
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan:
“Also when we asked women, what is it that they need the most? Three quarters of them have indicated that economic empowerment and livelihood as being their priority. And I can confirm from all my missions that women want to return, including to Khartoum. They want to return to their homes, to their areas of origin. They ask for three things when I spoken to many of them basic services, access to health, access to schools, particularly for their children, and livelihood opportunities. They don't want to be fed. They want opportunities, income generation of activities, opportunities to be able to feed their families and their children.”
10. Wide shot, press briefing room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Fabrizia Falcione, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan:
“Today in Sudan, the protection sector is funded at 14 percent and the health sector at 11 percent. We keep hearing over and over that this is a protection crisis, particularly affecting women and girls. It is a health crisis and yet the funding are not following neither the definition nor the needs that are being identified.”
FILE – UNFPA – SUDAN
12. Various shots, Fabrizia Falcione meeting with displaced Sudanese women and children
13. Various shots, displaced women and children
14. Various shots, women at the UNFPA women and girls’ safe space
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Country Representative in Sudan, Fabrizia Falcione said women and girls across Sudan continue to experience gender-based violence in their daily live. “They feel unsafe,” she said.
Falcione briefed reporter via video link today (17 Apr) from Khartoum. She said, “women and girls have a persistent sense of danger. 76 percent of the women aged between 25 and 49 have reported feeling unsafe in the displacement camps and sites, but also outside the camps, in markets, water points, in firewood collection areas, roads and streets, particularly at night when going to the latrines in distribution areas, and equally in urban and rural areas.”
The UNFPA official noted that reporting cases of gender-based violence remains “extremely difficult,” due to stigma, the fear of retaliation, the financial constraints, as well as the distance from the service provision.
Falcione also said, “three quarters of them have indicated that economic empowerment and livelihood as being their priority. “
She said, “I can confirm from all my missions that women want to return, including to Khartoum. They want to return to their homes, to their areas of origin. They ask for three things when I spoken to many of them basic services, access to health, access to schools, particularly for their children, and livelihood opportunities. They don't want to be fed. They want opportunities, income generation of activities, opportunities to be able to feed their families and their children.”
On funding shortage, the UNFPA official said, “today in Sudan, the protection sector is funded at 14 percent and the health sector at 11 percent. We keep hearing over and over that this is a protection crisis, particularly affecting women and girls. It is a health crisis and yet the funding are not following neither the definition nor the needs that are being identified.”
