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After developing severe cramps and swelling in her legs during the journey, Berhan had to be carried on a stretcher to the camp after she crossed to Sudan.
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“The influx of migrants and refugees arriving in Mexico largely surpassed its pre-pandemic upward trajectory. It’s vital to respond to their increasing humanitarian and protection needs,” says Schockaert.
© European Union, 2021 (photographer: C.Palma)
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Violence against women and girls is everyone's problem. It brings down an entire society. We are ALL touched by femicide in India. Census data shows that poverty and illiteracy are not key factors in India’s female genocide as many assume. The survival of girls is determined by a patriarchal politics of wealth control.
Save the Girl, Educate the Girl.
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The Suchiate River – the natural border between Mexico and Guatemala – is one of such routes.
People pay to hop on makeshift rafts and reach the border city of Tapachula, where some of them try to legally register in Mexico.
© European Union, 2021 (photographer: C.Palma)
An increasing number of women, girls and LGBTQI+ people flee from sexual and gender-based violence in their countries. They often face higher risks when migrating through Mexico. We help provide the protection and health support they need.
© European Union, 2021 (photographer: C.Palma)
Proud to join my House colleagues to stand in solidarity to bring attention to Domestic Violence Prevention Month and a special thanks to SafeSpace's CEO Jill Borowicz for joining us today and all her work on behalf of survivors of domestic abuse.
EU humanitarian funding ensures migrants receive legal assistance, information on their rights in Mexico and on how to access international protection.
EU funding also allows identifying human rights violations and protection risks to better address them.
© European Union, 2021 (photographer: C.Palma)
Bangladesh: Girls are from host community Cox’s Bazar, She visited WFS established for GBV prevention and response and integrated Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) services to women and men from the Rohingya and immediate host communities. These services will have a special focus on young people, both boys and girls, to empower them and improve their skills.
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Thousands of people from across Latin America and the Caribbean flee their homes every year due to violence, poverty, food insecurity, and climate change. To avoid checkpoints, they undertake a risky journey through unconventional routes.
© European Union, 2021 (photographer: C.Palma)
Hermione & Black Widow staff Hollaback Philly's stand at the 2014 AwesomeCon at the Convention Center in Washington, DC, reminding attendees that cosplay ≠ consent.
For what it's worth- I'm always careful to ask permission before I photograph anyone wearing more revealing attire, and have a firm no-flirting rule while I'm photographing (I'm well-aware of the creeper-potential simply in the fact that I have a camera!).
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"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the annual fundraiser for Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
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Many families in several municipalities had to flee their homes and seek shelter elsewhere after government security forces launched military operations against armed groups in the predominantly Muslim province of Maguindanao.
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I live in a little college town in Florida. Here, we have this local theater company who puts on plays in this historic building in downtown that used to be the post office. Currently, in honor of the season, they are putting on a production of Night of the Living Dead. What could be scarier than rampaging zombies, I thought? We gotta go see it! And so we did.
First of all I should admit that this theater is so known for its safe, unchallenging, "fun" plays that I haven't ever been very motivated to go see very many of them. And on the rare occasions that I do, I always walk away with the same impression: gee, that was mildly amusing and maybe rather cute but not very daring or profound. But with George Romero's movie as the basis of the script how could they disappoint? (sigh...)
For those unfamiliar with the movie, the original Night of the Living Dead movie was made in 1968 at the height of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Seen within that context, the movie is very daring and provocative. Fear of something "out there", a great threat to life as we know it, talk of "containment", and "cures" that are as bad as the disease (the only way to kill zombies is to shoot them in the head and many non-zombies are killed not by zombies but by other humans trying to kill zombies) and in the middle of all this is a great power struggle between an older "law and order" white man and a young rebellious black man in which the more sympathetic character of the two is --amazingly enough now remember this was 1968-- the black man. Wow!
It's one of the greatest films of all time and admittedly it'd be hard for a play to achieve something like the level of ingenuity of the original movie but the story line is so ripe for biting political commentary updated for the 21st century that you'd have to have your head in the sand to waste it. Theirs was a cute version that I really wanted to like --and probably would have if I didn't know how brilliant the Romero movie was-- but it could have been so much more.
Yes, the play was fun: the set impressive, the acting superb and the dancing zombies quite freaky-looking. Ben, the black man, was played by Armando Acevedo, in jeans and a muscle-revealing white tank, and to their credit they did maintain the social power dynamic of the movie while updating it to 21st century prejudices. Ben could've been an illegal immigrant or a farmworker. Mr. Cooper the white man was perfect in his polo shirt and slacks. I also appreciated it all being adapted to our area with lots of local references (Barbara and Johnny come from Tallahassee and the zombie attack takes place in Gainesville). But that's about as far as they push the envelope.
Okay you might say, so it was maybe a tad on the bland side what's wrong with that? Isn't Halloween supposed to be about having fun? Sure, but how much fun is it when it's obvious that stuff has been intentionally toned down so as not to offend the funding sources?
Here's an example: At one point in the play a woman in the audience stands up with a microphone and plays a local news anchor reporting on the situation. In the list of preparations the city has undertaken she tells us that the McGurns, locally famous wealthy developers, have opened a zombie-free "SafeSpace" downtown. Now, practically that entire audience would know "SafeSpace" as the name of a one-stop center that the city has been trying for years to open to provide services for the homeless. The reason it has taken so long is because there are some pretty powerful interests who are aligned against such charitable endeavors in the downtown area. The biggest and most powerful of those interests are --yes, indeed-- the McGurns! It was the perfect setup and but the script just turned and walked away leaving everyone smiling painfully at a lame quip about parking enforcement!
The McGurns, you see, are one of the largest donors to the Hippodrome State Theater. Can you spell i-n-f-l-u-e-n-c-e?
Alright, I can understand not wanting to deliberately piss off your largest donors with personal jibes at their heartlessness towards the poor but ignoring the themes of racism, patriotism and militarism that are so present in the movie sunk the rest of the play for me. There are so many rich parallels to today's situation. There's a part, for example, in the story where the other young man trapped in the house is chosen to go out and face the zombies alone. Romero put that scene in the movie for a reason. He's the young, loyal, good all-American boy going off to fight the good fight. (hmmm... haven't seen anything like that on the news around here lately, have you?) They could have played America the Beautiful, for example, during the scene where he's saying goodbye to his girlfriend, throwing red, white and blue lights on them as they embrace for the last time, both knowing they're likely to never see each other again. Instead, the playwrights here made it a cheezy melodramatic dance scene as if it were a romantic comedy relevant to nothing.
The USA of 1968 and the USA of 2007 have a lot in common. The climate of fear in our country today is arguably even greater than in Romero's time. What better way to illustrate that than with a classic zombie story about what people will do when faced with a threat of "epic porportions"? So you see the first lesson in art patronage: money buys good entertainment but not-so-good art.
I've said it before and I'll keep saying it until they prove otherwise, if you want to be entertained, the Hippodrome is the place to go. If you want to see real provocative performances, you'll have to look somewhere else. Because in a country once again so firmly in the grip of paranoia, nothing's scarier than safe zombies.
In Cameroon’ Far North region, conflict has prevented thousands of children from going to school. Numbers continued to increase across the region at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
Attacks by armed groups targeting schools have led to the destruction of schools, school closures, lack of adequate educational infrastructure and a shortage of trained teachers.
As of December 2019, over 40% of villages in the Far North region did not have a school, with 50% of existing schools located at more than 1 hour’s walk.
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Forced displacement usually means vital years of school are missed. Education and protection challenges to school-age girls and boys threaten children’s potential to develop academic and social-emotional skills in safe, functional schools and learning spaces.
Attending school does not only serve as a nurturing environment for children. It is also a way of providing vulnerable children with a safe and protective space that keeps them out of harm’s way, such as abuse or recruitment by armed groups.
© Njouliaminche Zedou / IRC, 2021. All rights reserved. Licensed to the European Union under conditions.
"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the celebration of the fifth anniversary of Collective Action for Safe Cities (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjVSL8R1"
An elderly man dressed in a sweater and cap holds a small kitten in his arms, surrounded by a simple, rustic indoor space with clothes hanging nearby.
The EU funds Save The Children to strengthen the shelter network on Mexico’s Northern and Southern borders. We fund child friendly spaces where children can play, learn, rest, and receive psychological support.
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ALL HAIL THE FANNY PACK
"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the annual fundraiser for Collective Action for Safe Spaces (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHskaedFDs"
The waiting list to apply for asylum is so long that people can end up queuing out of the registration office for days.
Their best hope is to receive a temporary humanitarian visa to either keep traveling or to settle down in Mexico for the time being.
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Women's Experience of Sexism
Because of the way we are raised, our society encourages women to be quieter, take up less space and to take care of others. We want to challenge these societal expectations of women and connect with our strength, our leadership and our power. (SACHA Hamilton)
"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the celebration of the fifth anniversary of Collective Action for Safe Cities (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjVSL8R1"
Creative Commons Fotopool gegen Gewalt an Frauen
Celina Löschau / Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin / Netzwerk der brandenburgischen Frauen- häuser (NbF e.V.) / CC BY-NC 4.0
Creative Commons Fotopool gegen Gewalt an Frauen
Sonia Bialasiewicz / Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin / Netzwerk der brandenburgischen Frauenhäuser (NbF e.V.) / CC BY-NC 4.0
"Lights, Camera, (Collective) Action!", the celebration of the fifth anniversary of Collective Action for Safe Cities (CASS), held at Room & Board at 1840 14th Street NW.
NOTE: This image is fully copyrighted. Permission is granted only to CASS or those within the photo to use these images with attribution:
"© Andrew Bossi, flic.kr/s/aHsjVSL8R1"