Her fury is palpable within every word as the carries out unflinching critiques of the governments who have failed women time and time again. She moves between topics, interview subjects and her own thoughts with ease and takes you with her wherever she travels. No detail or issue is shied away from, and the two chapters discussing the treatment of women in India, aptly titled “India: The Worst Place On Earth To Be Born A Woman”, is particularly disturbing to read.Įven so, Sue’s style is incredibly accessible. Sue was the BBC’s “hopeless cause correspondent”, taking on issues that didn’t look likely to see any resolve or retribution any time soon. From FGM to forced marriage to sex traffiking, Sue’s backcatalogue is as diverse as it is challenging. In her work for the BBC and ITN Sue covered a huge range of topics, largely focusing on the issues faced by women all over the world. Page by page, we become complicit in her frustration and join her in her mission to bring to light the injustices endured by women over and over and over again. And we as readers are invited to be angry with her. These are just three chapters from The War On Women: And the Brave Ones Who Fight Back, the work of video journalist Sue Lloyd-Roberts. Sue is angry, furious even, at the treatment of women the world over. “Ireland’s Fallen Women” confronts the atrocities committed by nuns of the Magdalen Laundries. “Boys Will be Boys” rages against the UN Peacekeepers who use these victims themselves. “From Russia With Love” will introduce you to victims of sex trafficking in Copenhagen.
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