How ActionAid tackles trafficking
With last week marking Human Trafficking awareness day, and the launch of a UN report on trafficking, we reflect on the ways ActionAid is tackling this global epidemic.
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The trafficking of women and girls is an extreme human rights abuse and, shockingly, it is not uncommon. Photo: ActionAid
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Women wearing the handmaiden's uniform. Photo credit: Daniel X. O'Neil, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) . Photo: Daniel X. O'Neil
The Handmaid’s Tale: science fiction or wake-up call?
Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale imagines a totalitarian society in which women's rights have been completely erased. Denied control over their own bodies, women are used as servants, wives, or, as in the case of the narrator Offred, 'handmaids'. Offred describes handmaids as "two-legged wombs", as they are ritually raped by powerful men and forced to bear their children.
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Ninive is a student and activist for Safe Cities, campaigning against street harassment in Heliopolis, São Paulo. Photo: ActionAid
Ending street harassment: Safe Cities for Women
ActionAid demands safe cities for women. We campaign in 20 countries to make governments, businesses and individuals take action against street harassment and violence against women.
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Nimah is the volunteer chair of a women’s rights coalition in her community in Somaliland. ActionAid’s Fearless campaign calls on the government to support organisations like Nimah’s. Photo: Jennifer Huxta / ActionAid
Why we’re using poetry to fight violence against women
This World Poetry Day, I want to tell you about some amazing activist poets who have inspired our latest campaign to end violence against women. Read about them below and find out how you can join our global, crowd-sourced poem of hope.
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Our strategy
ActionAid's vision is a world without poverty and injustice, in which every person enjoys their right to a life of dignity.
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