Autour du monde, le corps des femmes est un champ de bataille. Le viol, une arme de guerre stratégique utilisée à des fins de destruction des populations. C'est le constat sans appel établi par cette enquête, d'une ampleur inégalée, sur la violence sexuelle dans les conflits. Reporter depuis plus de trente ans, Christina Lamb a recueilli les témoignages de survivantes, des esclaves yézidies aux victimes des camps en Bosnie-Herzégovine en passant par les rescapées du génocide rwandais ou les "femmes de réconfort" japonaises. Si la qualification du viol en tant que crime de guerre date de 1919, seules deux condamnations ont été prononcées depuis. Les victimes, elles, se comptent par millions. La violence sexuelle n'est ni inévitable ni acceptable. Cet ouvrage, qui donne enfin la parole à celles que l'on réduit d'ordinaire à la honte et au silence, est un cri d'alarme lancé à l'humanité.

Nos corps, leur champ de bataille - Ce que la guerre fait aux femmes

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 'A wake-up call' Amal Clooney

 'Devastating. rape and sexual abuse continue to be a pervasive and all-too-often hidden feature of conflict zones the world over' HM Queen Camilla

 From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict.

 Christina Lamb has worked in war and combat zones for over thirty years. In Our Bodies, Their Battlefield she gives voice to the women of conflicts, exposing how in today's warfare, rape is used by armies, terrorists and militias as a weapon to humiliate, oppress and carry out ethnic cleansing.

 Speaking to survivors first-hand, Lamb encounters the suffering and bravery of women in war and meets those fighting for justice. From Southeast Asia where 'comfort women' were enslaved by the Japanese during World War Two to the Rwandan genocide, when an estimated quarter of a million women were raped, to the Yazidi women and children of today who witnessed the mass murder of their families before being enslaved by ISIS. Along the way Lamb uncovers incredible stories of heroism and resistance, including the Bosnian women who have hunted down more than a hundred war criminals, the Aleppo beekeeper rescuing Yazidis and the Congolese doctor who has risked his life to treat more rape victims than anyone else on earth.

 Rape may be as old as war but it is a preventable crime. Bearing witness does not guarantee it won't happen again, but it can take away any excuse that the world simply didn't know.

Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women

A 16 ans, elle a fui les bombardements d'Alep et traversé l'Europe en fauteuil roulant.
   Nujeen m'incite à rêver sans limites. Elle est notre héroïne. Tout le monde doit lire son histoire. Elle est une source d'inspiration.  Malala Yousafzaï,  prix Nobel de la paix« Voici un fait qui, à mon sens, ne devrait plaire à personne. Saviez-vous que, dans le monde aujourd'hui, 1 être humain sur 113 est réfugié ou déplacé ? En 2015, ils ont été plus de 1,2 million à se rendre en Europe. J'étais l'une d'eux. J'ai beau aimer les faits, nous ne sommes pas des nombres. Nous sommes des êtres humains et nous avons tous une histoire. Voici la mienne. » Nujeen Ce livre est porteur d'espoir pour tous les enfants et les adolescents. Dans le monde, près de 50 millions d'enfants sont déracinés. À leurs côtés, l'UNICEF travaille sans relâche pour les protéger.
Www.unicef.fr     Nujeen m'incite à rêver sans limites. Elle est notre héroïne. Tout le monde doit lire son histoire. Elle est une source d'inspiration.Malala Yousafzaï, prix Nobel de la paix Les auteursÂgée de 16 ans, Nujeen Mustafa a passé sa vie en fauteuil roulant. Elle a reçu très peu d'instruction en Syrie, mais a appris l'anglais toute seule en regardant les séries américaines à la télévision. En 2014, la ville de Kobané, où elle habitait, s'est trouvée au coeur de violents combats entre le groupe Etat islamique et les forces kurdes, soutenues par les Etats-Unis. La famille Mustafa a dû alors fuir vers la Turquie puis vers l'Europe, en Allemagne où ils sont aujourd'hui installés.  Christina Lamb a co-écrit le best-seller Moi, Malala (Calmann-Lévy).
Diplômée d'Oxford et de Harvard, elle est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages et a reçu de nombreux de prix pour son travail de grand reporter, dont celui de meilleur correspondant étranger britannique à cinq reprises, ainsi que le prix Bayeux, qui récompense le meilleur correspondant de guerre européen.

Nujeen

Nujeen has cerebral palsy and cannot walk. This did not stop her braving inconceivable odds to travel in her wheelchair from Syria in search of a new life. Nujeen recounts the details of her childhood and disability, as well as the specifics of her harrowing journey across the Mediterranean to Greece and finally to Germany to seek an education and the medical treatment she needs.

THE GIRL FROM ALEPPO - NUJEEN''S ESCAPE FROM WAR TO FREEDOM

In 1992 Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the country and its people.

 Long haunted by her experiences in Afghanistan, Lamb returned there after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre to find out what had become of the people and places that had marked her life as a young graduate. This time seeing the land through the eyes of a mother and experienced foreign correspondent, Lamb's journey brings her in touch with the people no one else is writing about: the abandoned victims of almost a quarter century of war.

 'Of all books about Afghanistan, Christina Lamb's is the most revealing and rewarding.a personal, perceptive and moving account of bravery in the face of staggering difficulties.' Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times

 'As an account of how Afghanistan got into its present state, and of the making of the grotesque regime of the Taliban, this book could not possibly be bettered. Brilliant.' Matthew Leeming, Spectator

 'Lamb's book combines a love of Afghanistan with a fearless search for the human stories behind the past twenty-three years of war.Her book is not only a necessary education for the Western reader in the political warring that generated the torture, murder and poverty, but also a stirring lament for the country of ruins that was once better known for its poetry and mosques.' James Hopkin, The Times

The Sewing Circles of Herat - My Afghan Years

From the award-winning co-author of I Am Malala, this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countries and 140, 000 troops on the ground, failed to defeat a group of religious students and farmers? How did the West's war in Afghanistan and across the Middle East go so wrong?

 Farewell Kabul tells how the West turned success into defeat in the longest war fought by the United States in its history and by Britain since the Hundred Years War. It is the story of well-intentioned men and women going into a place they did not understand at all. And how, what had once been the right thing to do had become a conflict that everyone wanted to exit. It has been a fiasco which has left Afghanistan still one of the poorest and most dangerous nations on earth.

 The leading journalist on the region with unparalleled access to all key decision makers, Christina Lamb is the best-selling author of 'The Africa House' and I Am Malala, co-authored with Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai. This revelatory and personal account is her final analysis of the realities of Afghanistan, told unlike anyone before.

Farewell Kabul - From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today.

 Since leaving England aged 21 with an invitation to a Karachi wedding and a yearning for adventure, Christina Lamb has spent 20 years living out of suitcases, reporting from around the world and becoming one of Britain's most highly regarded journalists. She has won numerous awards, including being named Foreign Correspondent of the Year a remarkable four times.

 'Small Wars Permitting' is a collection of her best reportage, following the principal events of the last two decades everywhere from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Lamb's main interest has always been in the untold stories, the people and places others don't visit. Undaunted by danger, disease or despots, she has travelled by canoe through the Amazon rainforest in search of un-contacted Indians, joined a Rio samba school to infiltrate crime rackets behind Carnival and survived a terrifying ambush by Taliban.

 No less remarkable are the characters that Lamb meets along the way, from Marsh Arabs who covet Play Stations instead of buffaloes to an Armenian compère for performing dolphins with whom she travelled during the war in Iraq.

 Lamb's writing is passionate, powerful and poetic, transforming reportage into literature. Through the stories she tells - and her own development from a self-confessed 'war junkie' to a devoted mother - Lamb attempts to comprehend the human consequences of conflict in the countries she has come to know.

Small Wars Permitting - Dispatches from Foreign Lands

An extraordinary collection of reportage that tells the story of some of the most important world events of the past 16 years, from one of the most talented and intrepid female journalists at work today.

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