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Birgit Schwarz is Communications Manager Africa at Human Rights Watch. Based in Johannesburg, she is responsible for media advocacy and outreach in Southern, Central and West Africa
A girl’s experience tells the story of xenophobia and how it robbed her of a sense of belonging
A survivor tells of how Islamists carrying AK-47s arrived on motorbikes, forced fleeing children to lie on the ground and beat teachers before setting a building on fire
Researcher Marion Volkmann-Brandau on what it took to directly link Gambia’s former dictator to rape and sexual explitation
