This week it was reported that Doctors Without Borders (MSF) had dismissed 18 workers after investigating several complaints from Sudanese refugee women and girls in Chad for sexual assault and exploitation. The news is not only an internal scandal but a major disgrace and the confirmation of a persistent reality: sexual violence pursues women even in environments of extreme vulnerability where they should be protected.

Reed Brody (Brooklyn, 1953) has spent his life defending human rights around the world and pursuing dictators throughout Africa and Central and South America, but also denouncing the despotic leaders of the West thanks to his work at Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. He collaborated with the victims of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and in Catch a dictator (Debate) explains the journey to condemn Chadian President Hissène Habré to life imprisonment. Brody spends much of the year in Barcelona with his partner, Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet.