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The UN estimates 4.2 million people are at risk of gender-based violence, up from 3 million before the conflict started in mid-April.

ALBAWABA - The war in Sudan has torn through the country, and women have had their share of cases of conflict-related sexual violence.

Meanwhile, Tunisian political prisoners go on hunger strike and Sudanese women face rising sexual violence

Elected officials and representatives of Israel's Arab minority demonstrated in Jerusalem on Tuesday against the crime plaguing their communities, calling on the government to increase security, an AFP reporter said.  Around 50 current and former members of parliament, as well as municipal representatives and Jewish supporters, gathered in a tent in front of the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a sit-in that began Monday.  "The police are complicit in the crime", read a large banner hanging in the tent in Arabic, Hebrew and English. 

Some 50 former and current Knesset members and others set up tent outside Netanyahu's office, blame police for not doing enough to stanch violence