Students of Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College spent their International Women's Day supporting the Oxfam We Can campaign and standing up to violence against women. Hundreds of students gave up their time to give International Women's Day 2013 a purpose.
The day was spent learning about the violence related issues facing women on an everyday basis in Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan....
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by Justine Lesage in New York City. Originally posted on the Control Arms blog.
Victor Amisi (below) is in New York, attending the UN Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, to explain his daily reality. In what may seem like a world away, thousands of child soldiers are still mobilized in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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