by Jane Whyatt, research by Ola Aljari
The latest statistics on refugees fleeing to Europe show that most of them are women. From last year’s 41 percent, the number rose to 55 percent. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, Filipo Grandi, “nearly two-thirds are women and children”. Yet a hard-hitting official study detailing the trauma and sexual violence these women face has attracted almost no media coverage.
Marie Dorigny (left) and Mary Honeyball. At the Brussels launch of her report, Honeyball also opened an exhibition of photographs by Dorigny, showing women fleeing from Syria and Eritrea along the…
