In 2019, according to the World Migration Report 2020, over 21 million Africans were forced to emigrate, but most of the migratory movements took place within the continent. The journeys of women specifically stop in countries bordering their own where they wait for husbands and children lost in war to come back. Here migrant women give birth and raise children very often conceived through sexual violence, or seek clandestine abortion. The percentage of men and of women leaving their countries is almost identical, but it significantly changes when it comes to arrivals to Europe that for women amount to only 12.6 percent (Carta di Roma and UNHCR, 2017). This project has investigated the issue of women who face a journey that stops just beyond the border, and follows the developments of their condition once they flee through three states whose geopolitical situation is linked to one-another: Eritrea, Ethiopia and Sudan. From 2017 to 2019 the work analyzed the migratory flow of Eritrean women escaping one of the world’s most repressive regimes, to seek refuge in Ethiopia. Since 4 November 2020, following the invasion of Tigray (Ethiopia) by the Ethiopian federal army supported by the Eritrean army and militias from Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the project’s focus has broadened to include also the journeys of Tigrinya women, who joined Eritrean women in their escape from Ethiopia to Sudan. In Tigray the Eritrean army used sexual violence as a weapon of war against both Eritrean and Tigrinya women: to punish those fleeing their country in the former case, and as an act of extermination in the latter. The body of these women therefore became a battleground for opposing sides. The Still Journey is the migration of women who are forced to stop by their own violated bodies, but who nonetheless find the strength to bring their children with them and wait for family members who have disappeared. The project is on going.