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Intrepid Women of the Great Identity Transduction

Intrepid Women of the Great Identity Transduction

Identity Transduction is imminent. All genders, old and new, will participate. Culture is ours to manufacture and manipulate as we see fit. Capitulation is death. Art is freedom. ...

Over 8,000 Men Disappeared in Kashmir Since 1989
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Over 8,000 Men Disappeared in Kashmir Since 1989

Kashmir women protest, demanding information and responsibility for missing husbands and children, who were disappeared by rebels or by the Indian security forces and presumably killed. ...

New Report Exposes Myth of ‘No Political Prisoners’ in Indonesia

New Report Exposes Myth of ‘No Political Prisoners’ in Indonesia

A new report by UK-based NGO, TAPOL, forcefully challenges the Indonesian government’s repeated assertion that the country has ‘no political prisoners.’ There were at least 210 political arrests i ...

Public Servants Bearing Witness Vol. 3

Public Servants Bearing Witness Vol. 3

Public Servants BEARING WITNESS serves as a supplement to mainstream news’ output. P.S. BEARING WITNESS was created to help maintain an informed public by covering the major international stories mainstream me ...

Public Servants Bearing Witness Vol. 2

Public Servants Bearing Witness Vol. 2

Public Servants BEARING WITNESS serves as a supplement to mainstream news’ output. P.S. BEARING WITNESS was created to help maintain an informed public by covering the major international stories mainstream me ...

Murder of an Idea

Murder of an Idea

Murder of an Idea & Coronation of a Broken Circle - By General Popó ...

Police Destroy Outdoor Market Run by Papuan Women

Police Destroy Outdoor Market Run by Papuan Women

The local administration in South Sorong, Papua, along with the police have destroyed a market run by Papuan women who are known as 'mama-mama'. Their tables, chairs and the goods for sale were all destroyed . And th ...

Mama Punya Cerita (Mama’s Story)
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Mama Punya Cerita (Mama’s Story)

Papuan women market traders in Merauke find it tough to sell their goods. Their trading space is small, dusty and often they have to share with minibus parking. ...

Redefining perceptions of women in PNG

Redefining perceptions of women in PNG

Perhaps Papua New Guinean women are the most under-rated strong women. Think of a typical village setting where over 80% of the country’s population resides. The women go fishing, make gardens, harvest sago, c ...

Support Women in DR Congo: The Rape Capital of the World
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Support Women in DR Congo: The Rape Capital of the World

Eastern DR Congo has been named the rape capital of the world. ...

ROHINGYA: Mothering Refugees- Kutu Palong Makeshift Camp
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ROHINGYA: Mothering Refugees- Kutu Palong Makeshift Camp

With neither hope of asylum in Bangladesh nor returning to their native Arakan State, 500 miles northwest of the Burmese capital Yangon, these Muslim Rohingya women and children survive within the camp by taking refu ...

Makeup & Mona

Makeup & Mona

Photos by Sylvaine Vaucher ...

Belarus: Endangered Journalists in Europe’s Last Dictatorship
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Belarus: Endangered Journalists in Europe’s Last Dictatorship

Activist & head of 'Belarus Free Theatre' Natalia Koliada talks about life in Europe's last dictatorship after controversial election last December, a treacherous place for journalists, performers, activists and wome ...

3 Women by Sylvaine Vaucher

3 Women by Sylvaine Vaucher

Photographs by Sylvaine Vaucher ...

Sylvaine Vaucher

Sylvaine Vaucher

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Unfair Treatment of Papuan Market Vendors in Jayapura
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Unfair Treatment of Papuan Market Vendors in Jayapura

Papuan women traders are relegated to the roadside, poor and dirty conditions, and to markets outside the center of the city. ...