Urgent funding needed to assist survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Tigray

Tigray, Ethiopia –“I was running from place to place without food or shelter. I was in fear all the time... There was no safe place for me until I got to the safe house,” 22-year-old Selam* recounted to UNFPA.Selam was in an extremely delicate physical and psychosocial state when she arrived. She had been displaced by conflict that continues to rage in parts of the region, and had repeatedly faced harrowing levels of sexual violence." Life didn ' t have any sense for her anymore, ” explained a social worker, who handled Selam’s case.
Source: UNFPA News - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Source Type: news