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femLENS Announces Publication of Third Issue of We See Magazine
femLENS, the Estonia-based volunteer organisation dedicated to empowering women by teaching them documentary photography, announced the publication of the We See magazine’s third issue. Produced entirely in-house by a team of volunteer writers, editors and designers, We See magazine highlights the creative work of women who do not have professional photography training but instead have…
ReFrame: Women in Sport in Narva: A First Look at Our National Workshop
On 4 June, femLENS held the ReFrame: Women in Sport national workshop in Narva, bringing together athletes, coaches, journalists and sports enthusiasts for four hours of conversation, analysis and planning. The group was intentionally mixed. Content creators, trainers and sportswomen worked alongside kickboxer Alexandra Dzhikaeva and members of women’s ice hockey team Narva Stormgirls, exploring…
Trafficking in Persons – A Global Perspective
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…
A Walk in Her Shoes: Bearing Witness to Women on the Move
By Claire O’Brien I was in a drug store in Alexandria, Virginia, when I witnessed the unhappy moment in an immigrant woman’s experience. She was young, 19 years old, maybe. She stood at the register, wearing the store’s blue polo shirt, her hijab framing her pretty features. She spoke English with confidence as she assisted…
femLENS AT TEDx ESTONIA
Jekaterina was recently asked to speak about femLENS at TEDxLasnamäe in Estonia. Here is the video in Russian and the English version of the speech is in a link bellow. An English version of the the femLENS speech at TEDxLasnamäe in Tallinn, Estonia
LAB: UNVEIL THE HIDDEN PRESENCE
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…
