we have donatella rivera, senior crisis advisor in the crisis response program at amnesty internationalsamuel, independent journalists, and also from london, martin, senior research fellow at two of commonwealth studies at the university of london. thank you all for joining us. just to let you know, the ethiopian government and the people's front did not respond to our requests to join the panel but let me start with you, donatella rivera. we mentioned the humanitarian crisis. this report from your organization about the possible crimes taking place, talk to us a little bit more about that and the extent of it. >> this report presents the finding of an investigation that we carried out over several months without being able to visit because the ethiopian government has not until now allowed amnesty international or any international human rights organization to go there. so we traveled to eastern sudan and interviewed women and girls who have been victims of sexual violence there as well as humanitarian personnel, medical personnel who are assisting these women, and we spoke to dozens o