International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women 2021
“It took us three hours to find her. She was unrecognisable. It was her who recognised us."
“It took us three hours to find her. She was unrecognisable. It was her who recognised us."
Thank you to our midwife colleagues. They stand for women and provide quality care, despite the pandemic, despite the conflict, despite everything that comes their way.
22-year-old Sharifa is one of the thousands of Afghan mothers struggling to overcome the hurdles that are posed by a healthcare system weakened by decades of war, poor facilities, and social and cultural barriers that are difficult to break.
Muzghan was born and brought up in the Panjshir Valley. She works in neonatal intensive care at our Maternity Centre in Anabah.
It has been a difficult year, one that has taught us to look at the world in a global way, to see how fragile its borders are, and how fragile borders between us as human beings are too.
Let’s start this year by wishing for a more peaceful and fairer world.
It is a film about EMERGENCY.
We reiterate the importance of collectively rejecting and denouncing violence against women.
There can be no safe treatment without a safe healthcare environment, and there can be no safe patient without a safe healthcare worker.