Kosovan-born Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman explains how a survivors’ network has empowered her and others to speak out against rape as a weapon of conflict

Warning: This episode of Small Changes covers topics that some listeners might find upsetting, including sexual violence and war

This month, Dr Denis Mukwege was awarded a Nobel peace prize, together with Yazidi activist Nadia Murad, for their work against sexual violence in war, shining a spotlight on the Mukwege Foundation’s global network for survivors.

Lucy Lamble meets one of the network’s members, Vasfije Krasniqi-Goodman, a survivor of the Kosovo conflict, who explains what it meant to her to be able to tell her story and how the network is giving a powerful voice to women all over the world.

For anyone wishing to download the song featured in the podcast, a different version of Little Bird by the Global Survivor Network, produced with Make Music Matter, is available on iTunes and Spotify.

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