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There have been numerous reports of the rape of women and girls in Darfur and in Chad, a country to which many of the more than two million displaced Darfurians have fled to escape the war in their region. Within camps set up for IDPs women have some measure of security. However, they are often attacked and raped when they leave the IDP camps to collect firewood. According to some studies, every Darfurian woman has been raped or personally knows other women who have been raped.