NPR: For Female Refugees, Attempt to Escape is Often Fraught With Sexual Assault

André Liohn

NPR talks to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) physician, Sarah Giles, who spent four months on a search and rescue boat in the Mediterranean. Giles shares stories of the women whom she met during the search and rescue efforts. View external media.

Dr Sarah Giles, MSF doctor onboard the MV Aquarius attends to a man taken unwell immediately after being rescued at sea. He was one of two brothers from Senegal attempting to cross the Mediterranean sea in an inflatable rubber boat along with around 180 other people.
André Liohn