Resources
A curated library on Sudan, the current war, and violence against women in conflict — the documents we cite, in one place, annotated.
This is not a complete bibliography. It is the working library of DAR Talks: the reports we open most, the documents we send to journalists, and the places to start if you have never read about this war before. Every entry below is a source this platform actually relies on; each annotation says what the document is and why it matters.
Where an entry is the basis for a claim elsewhere on this site, the claim links here and here links back to the primary document. Nothing on this page is a summary standing in for the source — follow the links.
If you have fifteen minutes
Read the UN Fact-Finding Mission's September 2025 findings for the authoritative account of what both armed parties have done, then Amnesty International's They raped all of us for what that has meant for women and girls specifically. Between them they establish the scale, the attribution, and the evidentiary standard.
United Nations documents
UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan — the mandate page, with each report as issued. This is the highest-authority body examining the conflict and the one to cite when you need a finding that both parties' supporters will find hard to dismiss.
War atrocities in Sudan: civilians deliberately targeted (OHCHR, September 2025) — the Mission's finding that both the SAF and the RSF have committed direct, large-scale attacks on civilians amounting to war crimes, including sexual and gender-based violence and abuses in detention. Report reference A/HRC/60/22. This is the single most useful document for the symmetric attribution this platform insists on.
UN Human Rights Chief alarmed at escalating violence in El Fasher (OHCHR, May 2024) — the early warning on El Fasher, useful for establishing that the siege and its consequences were foreseen well before they were reported widely.
Sudan Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026 (UN OCHA, 2026) — the displacement and needs figures this site uses: 9.3 million people internally displaced, 4.4 million who have fled to neighbouring countries. Cite OCHA rather than secondary reporting for any population figure.
Sudan humanitarian update — El Fasher (UN OCHA) — access, supply, and casualty reporting for the siege, updated as the situation moves.
Human rights organisations
"They raped all of us": Sexual violence against women and girls in Sudan (Amnesty International, April 2025) — thirty-six documented cases of women and girls, some as young as fifteen, raped, gang-raped, or held in sexual slavery by RSF forces across four Sudanese states between April 2023 and October 2024. The evidence base this platform's launch statement points to. The accompanying news summary is the shorter version for readers who need the findings without the full report.
Sudan: RSF and allied militias' campaign in West Darfur (Amnesty International, 2023) — the earlier Darfur documentation, useful for showing that the 2023–2025 pattern is continuous rather than novel.
"Khartoum is not Safe for Women!" (Human Rights Watch, July 2024) — widespread sexual violence in the capital, with the majority of cases attributed to the RSF but the SAF and SAF-aligned forces also implicated, and a documented rise in cases attributed to the SAF after it took Omdurman in early 2024. The most important single source for the symmetry of the record.
"The Massalit Will Not Come Home" (Human Rights Watch, May 2024) — ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in El Geneina, West Darfur. The reference work on the ethnic targeting dimension.
Organisation landing pages worth monitoring directly: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, OHCHR, UN Women, and Physicians for Human Rights.
Medical and humanitarian
"There is something I want to tell you" — surviving sexual violence in Darfur (Médecins Sans Frontières, March 2026) — at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence treated in MSF-supported facilities in North and South Darfur between January 2024 and November 2025. Clinical caseload rather than investigative sample, which makes it a different and complementary kind of evidence: these are people who reached care, which is a floor on the true number rather than an estimate of it.
Médecins Sans Frontières — situation updates from the facilities still operating, and the clearest running account of what happens when humanitarian access is blocked.
Incident-level record
The Sudan Record — our collaborator's geospatial OSINT database: confidence-scored incidents, an interactive map, and per-incident pages that can be cited individually. DAR Talks does not maintain a parallel incident database. For any incident-level claim, cite the specific Sudan Record entry, or the primary source it points to, rather than this site.
The two methodologies differ on purpose. DAR Talks works to testimony-grade consent and verification standards; The Sudan Record applies OSINT confidence scoring to open sources. Neither substitutes for the other. See Documented incidents for how the handoff works.
Legal and accountability
Coalition for the International Criminal Court — background on ICC jurisdiction, the existing Darfur referral, and what a fresh referral for the current conflict would require.
Avocats Sans Frontières and Just Access — organisations working on access to justice and accountability mechanisms relevant to survivors of conflict-related sexual violence.
Physicians for Human Rights — forensic documentation standards for sexual violence in conflict, including the training frameworks that inform intake work of this kind.
DAR Talks' own documents
- How We Document — the full methodology: consent, verification, redaction, security, and partnership. Available as a PDF.
- Statements & reports — the dated, ref-numbered, citable record, each with a PDF and pre-formatted citations.
- What is happening in Sudan — the sourced background record, with every claim linked to its primary source.
Reading this library honestly
Three cautions, because they matter more than the list does.
Documented is not the same as total. Every figure on this page is a count of what reached an investigator, a clinic, or a monitor. In a war where access is blocked and disclosure carries severe stigma, the documented caseload is a floor and nothing else. Do not report these numbers as estimates of scale.
Volume of documentation is not proportional to volume of crime. The documented caseload against the RSF is significantly larger than that against the SAF. That gap reflects where monitors have had access as much as it reflects conduct. The SAF caseload is smaller, credibly attested, and rising as access improves. Treat asymmetric documentation as a fact about the record, not a verdict about the parties.
Sources age. Where a document here has been superseded, the newer one is what we cite. If you find an entry on this page that has been overtaken, write to [email protected].
This library is added to as the record grows. It is not archived automatically — if a link here has died, tell us and we will find the replacement.