An award-winning exhibition in Rome captures how amid the often-forgotten, but dramatic war in the Tigray region, women are facing grave violations of human dignity, especially from sexual violence being used as a weapon of war.
By Greta Giglio and Deborah Castellano Lubov
Women’s human dignity continues to be violated amid the ongoing war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, with sexual violence employed as a weapon of war.
As documented in a recent report written by L’Osservatore Romano‘s Greta Giglio, Cinzia Canneri, winner of the World Press Photo International Photojournalism Award in the Africa – Long-Term Projects category, for her photo reportage “Women’s Bodies as Battlefields,” captured, or at least provided a glimpse of, the daily horrors these voiceless women are faced to endure.
Ms. Canneri’s exhibition is open in central Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni until 8 June and documents the harrowing experiences of Eritrean and Tigrayan women subjected to sexual violence in conflict zones. Read more…