The War Waged Against Tigrayan Women

by The Coalition for Genocide Response

Date and time

Mon, 17 May 2021

16:00 – 17:00 BSTLocation 

Location

Online eventEvent description ‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: The War Waged Against Tigrayan Women

Lord Alton, the Coalition for Genocide Response and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea invite you to a webinar entitled:

‘A Tigrayan womb should never give birth’: The War Waged Against Tigrayan Women

4 PM on 17 May 2021

Zoom

“Our problem is with your womb. Your womb gives birth to Woyane [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. 

The panellists will discuss the situation of Tigrayan women, consider the nature of the atrocities and the needed responses.

Speakers include: 

Lord Alton of Liverpool, Cross-bench Peer at the UK House of Lords

Professor Mukesh Kapila CBE,Professor Emeritus, Global Health & Humanitarian Affairs, University of Manchester

Lucy Kassa, journalist

Further speakers to be announced in due course. 

The link to connect will be shared on the day of the event. To register please go to

https://rapeintigray.eventbrite.co.uk