On Her Record with Sara Gill

Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 where we focus on Congo. The resource rich Eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been plagued by conflict since 1994, shortly after the Rwandan genocide. Parts are now controlled by the rebel group M23, and as a result, UN agencies say they are struggling to access vulnerable communities. To help us understand the geopolitical forces...

Mariam Solaimankhil was born in the United States to Afghan parents who had sought political asylum. She first visited Afghanistan in 2010, and what was meant to be a short trip quickly became a homecoming. Over the next decade, Mariam dedicated herself to public service and eventually entered politics as an MP. In 2021, just days before Kabul fell to the Taliban, she was warned that they would ki...

Our third episode focuses on Sudan. The UN says that more than two and a half years of fighting has resulted in the world's largest humanitarian crisis with 25 million people facing acute starvation and one in three children suffering from malnutrition. To help us understand what started this conflict that is often called a counter-revolutionary war, and why a ceasefire has been so hard to ach...

Our second episode focuses on the Gen Z protest movement in Nepal,  a movement that helped topple a government long accused of corruption and nepotism in just two days. We speak to filmmaker and journalist Sahana Vajracharya, who was on the ground covering the political developments as they unfolded. ++ Host/Producer: Sara Gill Audio sound: Muhammad Ali Khan++

Welcome to part 2 of our first episode on Gaza where we sit down with Dr Mona El Farra a renowned Palestinian Physician and Human Rights Activist. She is also one of the co-founders of the Al Awda Hospital in Gaza. It was the last operating medical facility in northern Gaza until Israel forced its evacuation this May. El Farra speaks exclusively to On Her Record about its closure and her life- whi...

Welcome to the first episode of On Her Record, a brand new series about women and their experiences of war and conflict. In today's episode we speak to Tarneem Hammad, she is 31 years old, an aid worker and writer from Gaza. For nearly two years she has survived what many world leading experts define as a genocide committed by Israel- and tells us that she has been forcibly displaced more time...