“Rohingya: A Genocide in the Digital Era” by Razia Sultana
Within the programming of
Women against Impunity 2019| Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
Myanmar refuses to grant the Rohingya minority citizenship, placing them in an extremely vulnerable situation that denies them basic rights and forces them into segregation. Both the UN and Facebook have identified and admitted that the spread of hate speech via this social network was a decisive factor in the materialisation of offline violence against the Rohingya population.
Guest speaker
Razia Sultana (Rakhine, Myanmar) is a Rohingya lawyer, researcher and educator specialised in issues related to the trauma, wartime rape and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. She has worked in refugee camps in Bangladesh, documenting the stories of women and girls who fled Burma (modern-day Myanmar).
Coordinated by: Association of Guatemalan Women (AMG)
