It’s been a very busy year for femLENS and we’re happy to present you the second issue of the women-only documentary photography magazine We See. This issue focuses on women’s rights, migration and human trafficking, as well as many photographs of women living in rural Spain and Ukraine. There is also a new “Featured Photographer”…
Every year in December photographers, agencies and publications share their best-of selections, of the work and stories done through the year. femLENS would like to share its own selection of our favourite photographs made by our various workshop participants. femLENS Best of 2017 can be viewed here. This year femLENS ran two workshops – in…
Jekaterina Saveljeva, founder and workshop facilitator at femLENS, is attending this year’s Thomson Reuters Trust Foundation Conference – the world’s leading forum for bringing together global business leaders, government representatives, lawyers, pioneers and advocates in the field of human rights and anti-slavery. It is an amazing experience to meet all the people working towards ending human…
Today we are finishing the last documentary photography workshop in Torrox, Spain, where women have been working on stories about the older population of their village, personal loneliness and social activism. The photographs will be featured in the second issue of We See Magazine which will be published mid December 2018. On Friday we begin…
We were happy to learn last Sunday that our Beirut workshop participant Halima al-Haj Ali won the top prize at the Lebanon Changemaker Photo Contest that focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. Halima is from Syria, living in Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon since 2012. She was a housewife back in Syria, living in…
Today is World Day Against Trafficking in Persons! Read a report by Freedom Fund “Struggling to survive: Slavery and exploitation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon” about Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and their vulnerability to trafficking.
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Between June 24-28 I attended a Lab about human trafficking, organised by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, GIZ and the Global Leadership Academy, held in Nairobi, Kenya. The Lab brought together 33 people from 25 different countries working in different capacities to fight trafficking in persons in the 21st century context. What we learned over four…
femLENS has been invited to participate in a LAB, about women and children trafficking, organised by Thomson Reuters Trust Foundation, the Global Leadership Academic and GIZ Sector Programme on Gender Equality and Women’s Right. The LAB meeting – Unveil the Hidden Presence: Trafficking in Women and Children – will take place from 25th to 28th…
In October 2017 femLENS organised a series of workshops in Shatila camp, that is located in southern Beirut and was established in 1949 by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to accommodate hundreds of refugees who fled from northern Palestine after 1948. Covering an area of 0.4 km², the camp has grown to…