World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – 30 July 2018
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Illustration by Ludovic Pujol
Over the past year and a half, the WeLens project—“WeLens: educational practices through a gender lens”—has brought together partners from across Europe and beyond to confront gender-based violence (GBV). Through education, storytelling, and collaborative tools, the project aims to support long-term, gender-sensitive responses to violence. Now, as we enter the final stages of the project,…
We are grateful for this feature by Tracy Piper-Wright for the ninth issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture focusing on Photography and Resistance. Read the article here about femLENS and our work, and the work of Jo Spence and Joan Solomon (What Can a Woman Do with A Camera?) in the larger context of…
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…
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…
In October 2018 femLENS ran a series of documentary photography workshops in the city of Zhytomy, Ukraine. According to the research commissioned by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) mission in Ukraine and conducted by GfK Ukraine in 2015, over 230,000 Ukrainians have become victims of human trafficking since 1991. The cited report shows that…
Press Release (Gdynia, Poland, March 8, 2018) This International Women’s Day marks the launch of We See, a biannual women-only documentary photography magazine, edited independently by Estonian-based NGO femLENS. This is not to celebrate women’s achievements but, rather, to encourage women to become change agents themselves while struggling for gender equality, and disrupting gender-stereotypes in cultural…