"Our problem is with your womb. Your womb gives birth to Woyane [a derogatory term used to refer to the TPLF]. A Tigrayan womb should never give birth" a Tigrayan woman was told after she was gang-raped and mutilated. Hers is just one of many similar reports emerging daily from Tigray. This suggests that rape and sexual violence against Tigrayan women are a commonly used weapon of the war - and might even be reaching the threshold for being a genocidal act.
During this webinar, the panellists discussed the situation of Tigrayan women, considered the nature of the atrocities and the needed responses.
Speakers included:
Lord Alton of Liverpool, Crossbench Peer at the UK House of Lords
Professor Mukesh Kapila CBE, Professor Emeritus, Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester
Lucy Kassa, freelance journalist
Sally Keeble, former Labour MP, Minister
and
His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, Coptic Orthodox Archbishop of London
