TIME Rape Victim Cover Photo Slammed as ‘Exploitive’

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TIME Rape Victim Cover Photo Slammed as ‘Exploitative’

TIME’s latest international issue features a portrait of a rape victim of the civil war in South Sudan. The magazine’s choice of photo is sparking an

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Photographed by renowned war photographer Lynsey Addario, who was herself a victim of wartime sexual assault after being captured by the Libyan Army in 2011, the portrait shows a Sudanese woman named Ayak who was repeatedly raped by soldiers during her country’s conflict