Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

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She has received numerous awards including Young Journalist of the Year in the British Press Awards for her coverage of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1988, the Foreign Press Association award for reporting on Zimbabwean teachers forced into prostitution, the Amnesty International award for the plight of street children in Rio, and the Prix Bayeux Calvados in 2007.

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb | Waterstones Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb | Waterstones

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari poses with released Nigerian schoolchildren who were kidnapped by Boko Haram. It makes me both devastated and appalled that our governments don’t think these things are important enough to tell us or even important enough to intervene, as they could have done on numerous occasions. If you can make it through the harrowing accounts of sexual violence in Our Bodies, Their Battlefield, it is a question you will find yourself asking, too. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefields , longtime intrepid war correspondent Christina Lamb makes us witness to the lives of women in wartime.Lamb’s book is a timely reminder that better outcomes will come only when we start insisting that these stories are heard. But we live in a time of unprecedented access to information, an ability to know what is happening, anywhere. Prievartaujama ne grupiškai, o masiškai, po keliasdešimt kartų tą pačią moterį, vyrą, vaiką, prievartaujama iki mirties, paprievartavus žudoma, prievartaujamos ir nužudytos. Emiliana Azemahi, age 14, with her 10-month old baby boy Moises in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2007. Kai kur (pvz Kongo organizacijoje "Jėzaus kariuomenė") specialiai ieškoma kūdikių paprievartauti, nes yra tikėjimas, kad tas kraujas (ne, ne "mergystės plėvės", o visų dar nesusiformavusių organų, vietoj kurių lieka tiesiog skylė) atneša nesužeidžiamumą.

Our bodies, their battlefield: What war does to women Our bodies, their battlefield: What war does to women

Photograph: Pete Muller/AP A Congolese woman waits outside a mobile military tribunal prior to the sentencing of 11 soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity in Baraka, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rape has been used as a tool of fear and intimidation, a way of devastating communities but also for soldiers and young men to create grotesque bonds of solidarity, trust and loyalty. You meet these women, here in the city, or go out to the village, to Taba, and meet them and they seem normal. mot One of the earliest events mentioned in the Sabine women all the way up to what is happening in Burma.Yiannis explained that a couple of weeks before my visit the Yazidis had been attacked by other refugees, Sunni Muslims, who denounced them as devil worshippers just as ISIS had done, so he had cordoned them off for their own protection. Some of these Filipino women married after the war, never telling their husbands – and after long years in their old age told their children. A statue commemorating women forced into sexual slavery in the Philippines was taken down (to be “relocated”) after President Duterte was persuaded it was distasteful.