Marchu Girma is a campaigner advocating for the rights of refugee and asylum-seeking women. She works as the Deputy Director for Women for Refugee Women and is passionate about empowering refugee and asylum-seeking women to speak up about their experiences, and enabling them to use their voices for change. As part of her role at Women for Refugee Women, Marchu has co-authored research reports, delivered training, and helps to maintain refugee women’s networks around the country.

Marchu will be discussing how the hostile environment is having a detrimental effect on refused asylum seeking women and Women for Refugee Women’s ground breaking research into the effects of destitution on women.