Oct 14 Sexual violence and migration

I write this post on a Friday afternoon. Therefore, conclude the week and do it with bad news… and good.

The bad news is contained in a report Doctors Without Borders I just read. He clarified that the report is almost a year, But reality tells a sadly effective. Under the title Sexual violence and migration discusses the testimony of 63 women sexually assaulted migration process during their exodus and treated by MSF in Rabat and Casablanca May 2009 and January 2010. The ages of these women range from 2 (Two!) and 40 years old.

The report tells the extreme vulnerability of these women in a painful way that made no money, undocumented and unprotected. It is pointed, also, a given sangrante: el 70% de ellas emprendieron la ruta precisamente huyendo de situaciones de violencia en sus lugares de origen, by armed conflict, persecution on political, domestic violence. “Only” el 30% migrated for economic reasons but, from my point of view, poverty is also a form of violence.

I leave here a single witness, narrated from the fateful step of Maghnia, in Algeria, to Oujda, Moroccan territory and. “A newcomer to whoever is Maghnia; can not refuse, can not leave, everything is paid with sex. Even if you are with your baby or your child, every woman should go through the same”.

Encourage one to read. They're just 11 pages. Succinct and devastating, pure and harsh reality.

And having the guts churning, I give the good news:tomorrow is 15 October and get out into the streets to improve the world. They'll come and lxs aguafiestxs lxs skeptical. We are currently on the night before: the magic moment when the future, tomorrow, it is still possible.