Every time you enter a space, you are on public display. Nothing is private.
In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats alone.
We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.
For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.
As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.
I like to be flexible in the way I take pictures. I do not use a tripod, and I move around in the crowd, of which I am myself part. . . . I try to preserve the dynamics of the street, and my way of using the camera tries to approximate as much as possible the way we see: focusing on details, opening up to wider angles, and composing all these very short, fragmented impressions into a larger mental picture.
At the door , she made him promise to go without goodbyes. She closed the door on him. Laila leaned her back against it , shaking against his pounding fists , one arm gripping her belly and a hand across her mouth , as he spoke throughout the door and promised that he would come back for her. She stood there until he tired , until he gave up , and then she listened to his uneven footsteps until they faded , until all was quiet , save for the gunfire cracking in the hills and her own heart thudding in her belly , her eyes , her bones.
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture
["2012"] it was really more about the subject matter, and to do a modern retelling of Noah's Ark, a flood story.