The ongoing humanitarian crisis in Sudan is having a devastating impact on women and children. According to UN estimates, even before fighting broke, more than 3 million women and girls in Sudan were at risk of gender-based violence, including intimate-partner violence.

“Our teams in the region describe horrific ordeals being faced by forcibly displaced women and girls when fleeing Sudan,” says Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees. “This shocking array of human rights violations must stop. Help to support survivors and those at risk is urgent, but so far, funding is falling extremely short.”

Attacks on healthcare facilities, equipment and workers are further depriving women and girls of lifesaving care, with pregnant women hardest hit, according to the World Health Organization and UNFPA. Nearly three quarters of health facilities are out of service and diseases including cholera, measles and malaria are spreading at a time when two thirds of the population lack access to health care.

According to UNICEF, the UN agency for children, Sudan is the world’s largest child displacement crisis. The conflict has deprived millions of Sudanese children of an education, with more than 90 percent of the country’s 19 million school-age children having no access to formal education.