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Broken bodies — broken
dreams: violence against women exposed offers a powerful testimony of the different types of
gender-based violence experienced by women and girls worldwide throughout
their lives, through the use of photographs, individual case studies and
illustrative text. The publication is part of OCHA/IRIN’s ongoing campaign
to highlight the issues of violence against women through film, text and
photography.
Violence against women is a
pandemic, one that transcends the bounds of geography, race, culture, class
and religion. It touches virtually every community, in virtually every corner
of the globe. Too often sanctified by custom and reinforced by
institutions, it thrives on widespread impunity for perpetrators in what
remains a patriarchal world that is reluctant to grant women equal rights and
protection from gender-based violence.
“This book serves to raise
awareness and provoke action in addressing the causes of gender-based
violence, as well as assisting and defending the millions of women targeted
by violence. These are our sisters, our mothers, our daughters.” — Jan Egeland,
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and
Emergency Relief Coordinator.
A photo exhibition has been
developed to launch the book and has been displayed in three international
locations: New York, Geneva and Nairobi. For more information on broken
bodies — broken dreams, please contact: brokenbodies@irinnews.org
Broken Bodies Broken
Dreams comes with
a training CD included which includes a summary presentation of each of the
15 chapters of the book.
It is available on Amazon books and can also be directly purchased
through Earthprint at
www.earthprint.com
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