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…
This past Monday, Jekaterina started a new series of documentary photography workshops with women in the village of Torrox in southern Spain. The workshops are being held in the local radio station building and organised with the help of a local women’s association. The participants range from the ages of 46 to 64 and come…
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…
Want to attend the best part of the year in Gdynia, Poland? Go to Klub Desdemona on Saturday June 9, 2018. Starting at 19.00 there will be music, a photo exhibition, some words said about what we do and why we do it, and most importantly an auction of photographs taken by our workshop participants. There…
femLENS has launched a crowdfunding campaign to gather funds to attend the LAB: Unveil the Hidden Presence: Trafficking in Women and Children, organised by Thomson Reuters Trust foundation and the Global Leadership Academy. The campaign is ongoing as the last event of the LAB will be at the end of November. Please consider donating through gofundme, PayPal or by…