The most beautiful fashion shoot I have ever seen All these young women were victims of acid attacks in India. Rupa (right) has now designed her own fashion range. The Herald Sun has featured images from the shoot. It is just the best fashion photo shoot I think I’ve ever seen. Despite their suffering, multiple […]
Recently I was part of a field trip visiting World Vision projects in communities in North West Delhi, India. Led by World Vision Australia CEO Tim Costello, it was an amazing time, seeing the real difference World Vision was making in the lives of the vulnerable and marginalised, through infant nutrition programs, improving the lives […]
It felt like I had arrived at a wedding. The girls were dressed like brides. Their hair was immaculate. Their necks were bedecked with jewellery. Happy chatter filled the air as they awaited the biggest event of their lives so far. These were slum girls, Dalits, on the lowest rung of India’s class ladder. Their […]
The gang-rape of a 23-year-old student in a moving bus on the night of December 16 in the capital city of Delhi has triggered anger, outrage and shock amongst every citizen this country. The National Crime Records Bureau records 572 rapes reported from Delhi for the year 2011. This year 635 rapes had already been […]
‘It’s a Girl’, a disturbing but awareness-raising film, screened in Sydney last night. I was asked to say a few words. Here they are. It’s a girl. I’ve heard those words three times in my life. Unlike the women we will hear about tonight, those words brought joy. It’s a girl. Three times for me […]
SPECIAL SCREENING November 12: “It’s a Girl” The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of “gendercide”. Girls are killed, aborted and abandoned simply because they are girls. The film tells the stories of abandoned and trafficked girls, of women who suffer extreme dowry-related violence, of […]
Promoting white supremacy Here at the MTR blog we’re not exactly what you’d call fans of the global corporation Unilever. Unilever has been named and shamed here before for its sexist advertising through the Lynx/Axe brand as highlighted here and here, for its hypocrisy in promoting so-called “real beauty” through its Dove brand while presenting women in […]
