Disabled women in lockdown, Rape in Nigeria, and Troupers
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
As we move to ease lockdown restrictions in this country, and look ahead to the “new normal”, there are a large number of people who are still very much in lockdown. Many people with medical conditions that make them “extremely clinically vulnerable” to COVID-19 are “shielding” for a minimum of 12 weeks. Shielding means staying in your home and not leaving for any reason, not even for exercise or to get food. How are disabled women finding this experience, and are they getting the support they need? Katie Pennick is a disability activist and journalist. She spoke to three other disabled women – Fi Anderson, Sarabajaya Kumar and Amy Kavanagh - to see how they have been affected.
The next in our series celebrating the women who get things done – the Troupers. They are very bad at blowing their own trumpets so we are doing it for them. Mairi MacLean was born in the village of Morar in the Scottish Highlands. She has been campaigning for years to provide somewhere to play for the local children. Her friend Alison Stewart is keen she gets recognition for her efforts.
And the rape and murder of a 22 year old microbiology student in a church in Benin City Nigeria has caused outrage across the country. Uwaila Omozuwa, who was using the church as a quiet place to study, was rushed to hospital after the attack but died last Saturday. A march protesting her death took place in Benin on Monday and #JusticeforUwa has been trending on Twitter. Amnesty International says that Nigeria government’s response to rape continues to be woefully inadequate. So what needs to be done to prevent sexual violence against women in the country? Jenni is joined by Osai Ojigho, Country Director of Amnesty International in Nigeria.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Woman's Hour podcast for Thursday, 4 June. |
| 0:11.3 | Good morning. As the restrictions of lockdown begin to ease a little, what's the position |
| 0:17.7 | for those considered extremely clinically vulnerable to Covid-19? Women with such disabilities |
| 0:24.5 | have been shielded, which means not leaving your home for any reason. How are they finding |
| 0:30.1 | the experience and what support have they had? And the next of our troopers, the women |
| 0:35.3 | who see a need and fill it today, it's Mary McLean and the voluntary work she's been |
| 0:40.8 | doing for her small Highland community. |
| 0:45.8 | Earlier this week, a march protesting the death of Uwala Amazua was held in the Nigerian |
| 0:51.5 | city of Benin. Uwa's rapened murder has caused outrage across the country. She was 22 and |
| 0:59.9 | microbiology student and she was found last week in a church she'd been using as a quiet |
| 1:04.8 | place to study. She was rushed to hospital after the attack but died last Saturday. |
| 1:11.4 | Hashtag justice for Uwa, hashtag stop raping women have been trending on Twitter and have |
| 1:17.2 | been followed by the names of other victims of sexual violence. It's estimated some |
| 1:22.8 | two million Nigerian women and girls are sexually assorted every year but few of those cases |
| 1:28.5 | are reported, let alone prosecuted. What needs to be done to prevent such violence against |
| 1:34.4 | women in the country? Osai Ojigo is Amnesty International's director in Nigeria and joins |
| 1:41.4 | us from there. Osai what exactly happened to Uwa? |
| 1:49.6 | Uwa had gone to study at a church where she's also a member of the choir and she was discovered |
| 1:58.7 | in a pool of her blood and taken to a hospital this was last week on Wednesday. So it was |
| 2:06.4 | while they were still treating her for assault wounds because they thought it was a sort |
| 2:10.8 | of robbery or theft. They now discover she was also sexually violated and that was when |
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