Survivor testimonies

This archive will hold first-person accounts from Sudanese women who have lived through this war. None have been published yet.

That is a deliberate state, not an unfinished one. Testimony reaches this page only after a survivor has gone through a consent conversation in her first language, with no time pressure, with someone trained to hold it. Verification follows, on the standard we set out in How we document. Until a testimony has cleared both, it does not appear here.

We would rather show an empty archive than a fast one.

If you are a Sudanese woman or girl who wants to give testimony

The intake is off the platform, by design. There is no form on this page and there will not be one — a public form is not safe for the women we work with, and it is not how trained intake is done.

Reach us through one channel and we will route you to a trained intake worker, in English, French, or Arabic. Signal is preferred; the handle is shared on request, never published.

The same channel reaches us if you want to give testimony on behalf of a sister, a daughter, a friend who cannot yet speak for herself.

What you can read today, while the archive is being built

• How we document — the consent, verification, redaction, and security standards that decide what reaches this page.
• Statements — DAR's public record of what she has said, when, and why.
• Women and girls under siege — the documentation case, with primary sources, for the violations these testimonies will speak to.

For researchers, lawyers, and journalists

Some testimony exists in our archive under redaction or under embargo while a case proceeds. Where that material can be made available for non-public work, research access is the route. We do not share files by unencrypted email.