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Women In Media & News, a media analysis, education and advocacy group, works to increase women’s presence and power in the public debate. WIMN’s POWER Sources Project provides journalists with a diverse network of female experts.
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Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea | Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ tells Zainab’s story, and the story of many others who have trodden the same path.

When she was 9, Zainab’s parents made the heartbreaking decision to leave their home in northern Afghanistan. They set out on a journey across the globe, putting the fate of their family in the hands of strangers.
Across borders, behind bars and onto a smuggler’s boat – the family chased freedom.
‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’ tells Zainab’s story, and the story of many others who have trodden the same path.
Jessie Taylor and Ali Reza Sadiqi travelled across Indonesia and met with 250 asylum seekers in jails, detention centres and hostels. Through candid interviews, hidden camera footage and in the words of asylum seekers themselves, the story of the ‘refugee’ is told. What pushes people to leave home? What do they leave behind? What do they fear? Why did they choose this path? And what does it take to turn someone into a ‘boat person’?
Meet the human faces behind the most controversial issue of our time.

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FREE-THEM | Once this word, "prostituted" is introduced into your vocabulary, you learn the word "human trafficking"

In 2003 the Founder of [free-them] moved from Oakville, Ontario Canada to Honolulu, Hawaii USA to pursue her university education. She moved into Waikiki onto a street named Kuhio Avenue (if you stay in Waikiki long enough, you learn quickly that this street is also known as Candy Lane – it’s the track). Daily she encountered prostitutes at her “front door” and instead of rejecting them, she started to engage. Over a short period of time, she began to learn that the word “prostitute” which we equate often with “choice” should be replaced with “prostituted.” Once this word, “prostituted” is introduced into your vocabulary, you learn the word “human trafficking” (and for many your world will never be the same again).

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