Join WIJ for an exclusive insight into the experiences of our Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Christina Lamb OBE on May 28.
Christina, Chief Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times, will be interviewed at a special WIJ event by Channel 4 News International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, at a groundbreaking new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. This event is kindly supported by Veuve Clicquot.
Throughout her 38 years covering conflict Christina has always focused on the impact of war on women, writing books with Malala Yousafzai and Syrian refugee Nujeen Mustafa, and she has been a key advisor in the creation of Unsilenced: Sexual Violence in Conflict .
Featuring case studies from the First World War to today, Unsilenced is the museum’s first ever exhibition on this subject and will showcase never-before-seen items and the work of key NGOs, along with testimonies and interviews for an exhibition which aims to inform visitors, empower survivors and contribute towards meaningful change.
Christina’s acclaimed book, ’Our Bodies, Their Battlefield’ was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction and the Orwell Prize and was described by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, as ' a wake-up call' and military historian Antony Beevor as ‘the most powerful book I have ever read’. A new edition includes Ukraine, Israel and Palestine.
Rachel Corp, WIJ chair and ITN CEO, said: “Christina is simply a formidable correspondent and an incredible role model for all journalists with her fearless reporting and her unwavering commitment to highlighting the human cost of conflict. "
This thought-provoking event includes access to the exhibition and a complimentary glass of champagne. Doors open for exhibition viewing from 6:30pm. There will be also be time to view the exhibition after the talk.
WHERE: Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Rd, London SE1 6HZ
WHEN: Wednesday 28 May, 6:30pm
We will also hear from Alice Edwards, an international lawyer with deep expertise in human rights and refugee law, as well as criminal justice. In 2022 she became the seventh UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and the first woman to hold the role.
Dr Edwards has been working on torture and sexual violence since the 1990s. Through field and academic work, she has researched and pursued many issues affecting women and girls including the feminizing of torture under international law.
Her most renowned legal work is her breakthrough argument, which is now accepted as doctrine globally, that rape and sexual violence are forms of torture and persecution. This has enabled hundreds of thousands of victims to claim protection under the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees.
Significant portions of her fieldwork informed her influential book, Violence against Women under International Human Rights Law (Cambridge University Press, 2011)
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