In 1973, Sue Lloyd-Roberts joined ITN as a news trainee and went on to
be one of the UK's first video-journalists to report from the bleak
outposts of the Soviet Union. Travelling as a tourist, she also gained
access to some of the world's most impenetrable places like China, Tibet
and Burma. During her 40-year-long career she witnessed the worst
atrocities inflicted on women across the world.
But in observing
first-hand the war on the female race she also documented their
incredible determination to fight back. The War on Women brings to
life the inconceivable and dangerous life Sue led. It tells the story of
orphan Mary Merritt who, age sixteen, instead of being released from
the care of nuns was interned by them in a Magdalen Laundry and forced
to work twelve hours a day six days a week, without pay, for over a
decade.
She gives voice to Maimouna, the woman responsible for
taking over her mother's role as the village female circumciser in The
Gambia and provides a platform for the 11-year-old Manemma, who was
married off in Jaipur at the age of six. From the gender pay gap in
Britain to forced marriage in Kashmir and from rape as a weapon of war
to honour killings, Sue has examined humankind's history and takes us on
a journey to analyse the state of women's lives today. Most importantly
she acts as a mouthpiece for the brave ones; the ones who challenge
wrongdoing; the ones who show courage no matter how afraid they are; the
ones who are combatting violence across the globe; the ones who are
fighting back.
Sue sadly died in 2015, shortly after writing
this book, today she is widely recognised as one of the most acclaimed
television journalists of her generation. This book is the small tribute
to the full and incredible life she lived and through it these women's
voices are still being heard.
The War on Women - Sue Lloyd-Roberts
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