Burundi: Rebuilding the Broken Lives of Refugee Women Including Women Human Rights Defenders
18 March 2020
Joint Statement On 8 March the world celebrated International Women’s Day 2020 under the theme “# I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights”. Against this background, DefendDefenders and Light for All reflect on the living conditions of exiled Burundian women human rights defenders (WHRDs) in refugee camps, forced to flee their country because of torture and sexual violence. While Burundi initiated progressive reforms to empower
