Inside Geneva: Myanmar, women and justice

About this episode

This episode discusses the plight of women fighting for justice in Myanmar following the military's assault on the Rohingya population.

Send us Fan Mail On Inside Geneva this week, we look at women fighting for justice. In 2017, Myanmar’s military launched an assault on the Rohingya population. Almost a million were displaced, there were reports of horrific violations: rape, the murder of children, including babies. “The accounts that affected me most are those of children. Now I’m a grandfather, I sit there and listen and I think of my own kids when they were young and my grandkids now. How can you not?,” says Chris Sidoti f...

Topics covered

• women's rights
• justice
• Rohingya crisis
• human rights
• Myanmar

Keywords

• Myanmar
• Rohingya
• justice
• women
• human rights
• Chris Sidoti

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Myanmar

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