International Women's Day

FOCUS international women's day : International women's day on 8 March: focus on sex trafficking, woyoyi

International women's day on 8 March: focus on sex trafficking, woyoyi

Human trafficking is a rapidly growing and extremely profitable business. An estimated 120, 000 women and children are smuggled into western Europe each year. According to the UN Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, the most common form (79%) is sexual exploitation. We review some of the films, exhibitions and music casting light on the topic on international women's day

by Bibbi Abruzzini @ // 07/03/12

international women's day, photography, music, women's day, women's rights, cinema, india

OPINION international women's day : International Women's Day: no way we're reading a book by a woman

International Women's Day: no way we're reading a book by a woman

Gloria Steinem once declared that while the truth may set you free, 'first it will piss you off.' 8 March marks International Women’s Day, a day on which women around the world (but mostly around Europe and North America) are celebrating the fact that we are now more equal than ever before. It’s also a perfect day for getting pissed off at how much we have left to accomplish - take literature, for example

by Kris Anderson @ // 08/03/11

international women's day, lucía etxebarría, nobel literature prize, doris lessing, virginie despentes, literature, women

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