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That's horrible and turn the page. I want them to stop, I want them to say, wow, what's happening? Oh, it's a mother and her child. All these small moments can add up and they sit in people's minds. If you make them not beautiful enough, but if you make them accessible enough [ MUSIC ] My name is Lynsey Addario and I'm a photo journalist. [ MUSIC ] I think that we have a responsibility, as human beings, to, to care about how other people live. Especially. Actually, women live with great injustices and they do not have the luxuries that we have here in America. Where I am a women, I am born it is a given I will have a house, a roof over my hear, I will have running water, electricity, education. I can decide what I wanna do for a living. That is astonishing, because for most women in the world, they will never. Never ever have one of those things. I can't take that for granted. So many women are casualties of their birthplace. They have nothing when they were born and would have nothing when they died. They survived off the land and through their dedication to their families, their children [ MUSIC ] I started covering the war in Congo in 2006. I was able to spend two weeks, literally, every single day, meeting with, interviewing and photographing women. Rape victims. It was incredible to me, because not only were they brave. To go on camera and talk about what had happened to them. But a lot of them were you know, they took a stand and they said yes, take my picture because I want to try and help other women and I want to try and give this strength to other to come forward and to not feel like they're victims. It was very clear to me that. No matter what hand you're dealt in a lot of these places you have to get on with it and you just have to move on. And so that I used a lot in my own experiences. For example, in Libya, and I remember very distinctly in Libya being tied up, blindfolded and punched in the face. And I remember there was a moment where I just sat there and I was like. **** and I just started crying. And then I thought, you know, pull yourself together. I mean you can handle this. This is like, It's a lot worse for a lot of other women. So I used their stories as a source of strength. Yes I would definitely say i'm still optimistic. It's pretty easy to get overwhelmed by everything we see in the news and all the killing and death, and. But war have been around since the beginning of time. I mean, we've always been at war. If anything, I've taken with me the optimism that I see in people in those war zones. [ MUSIC ] And I think it's very important to do that. And, and to listen to them, and to look at them. If they live 24 hours a day under bombardment and they still have hope, that one day the world will end. How can I as an outsider say you know what? 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