Dialog Journal

The government of #Mexico launches a national emergency plan to combat #gender-based violence. The starting point of the plan is the recognition that violence against women is an issue of state importance and that so far Mexico has failed to protect women and girls. The project includes efforts to identify and fix holes in active murder investigations; to strengthen co-operation between prosecutors, health services, schools, and other authorities; to standardize femicide, or ...killings of women that are directly gender-related as a crime nationwide; and to search for women as soon as they are reported missing. Currently disappearances are often not investigated immediately. The plan also provides for the creation of a registry and surveillance of areas with high incidence of criminal activity, combined with a mobile app which identifies dangerous areas and allows the authorities for faster reaction. While gender alert systems are already in place in more than half of Mexico’s states, the system needs improvement. Last year 3,580 women and girls were killed in Mexico. Photo by Pedro Pardo/ Anadolu Agency. #EscúchameTambién #MeToo #womensrights #MiPrimerAcoso #TimesUp #NiUnaMenos #nuncamas #empowerment #photojournalism #photography #documentaryphotography #reportage #journalism #reportagespotlight @ Mexico City, Mexico

This #Carnival Érika Salvador will make her dream come true as a leading dancer of Gigante do Samba school, 11 consecutive times champions of #Carnaval do Recife. Along with the traditional green and white, Érika will also carry another flag: that of the #LGBTQI+ community. As lesbian she encounters prejudice in the world of samba on daily basis. Photo by Léo Malafaia @leomalafaia/Folhape. Based on text of @maidamelo. #LGBT #LGBTQ #pride #lgbtrights #equalrights #Brazil #Brasil #photojournalism #photography #documentaryphotography #reportage #journalism #reportagespotlight @ Recife, Brazil

Today, on #InternationalWomensDay, Argentinians mobilize with mixed feelings of hope and anger. Hundreds of thousands of women in #Argentina will take to the streets to call for #equality rights, legalization of #abortion, and an end to #gender-based violence. Only last week, an 11-year-old girl was forced to undergo an emergency C-section after the health officials repeatedly denied her the right to abortion. I want you to remove what the old man put inside me, said the gi...rl, asking for ending the pregnancy a result of rape by her grandmother’s partner. According to the official data, there were 2,493 live births in 2017 to girls under 15 in Argentina. Many such pregnancies are the result of rape by family members. The U.N. Committee against Torture has repeatedly expressed concerns about restrictions on access to abortion and about absolute bans on abortion as violating the prohibition of #torture and ill-treatment. The U.N. Human Rights Committee explicitly stated denial of access to safe abortions to women who have become pregnant as a result of rape amounts to a breach of article 7 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which protects against torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. In Argentina, anti-choice activists have been emboldened by the failure of the last year’s legalization bill. After more than 15 hours of debate, Argentine senate rejected the bill legalizing elective abortion in first 14 weeks of pregnancy in a split vote of 38 to 31. Today, #womensrights campaigners aim to keep the debate alive in the civil society and to push for new legislation. Pictured above is a street installation with accounts of clandestine abortions. Buenos Aires, 2018. Photo by @pabloa.photo. #NiñasNoMadres #NiUnaMenos #nuncamas #empowerment #8M #metoo #photojournalism #photography #documentaryphotography #reportage #journalism #reportagespotlight #womensday #timesup @ Buenos Aires, Argentina

My mission is to tell you the story and then you decide what you want to do, Behrakis has said. My mission is to make sure that nobody can say: ‘I didn’t know’. Yannis Behrakis, one of Reuters’ most decorated and respected photographers, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Behrakis covered conflicts and natural disasters around the world in a career spanning more than thirty years. In the process, he won the respect of both peers and rivals for his skill ...and bravery. In 2000, he was ambushed in Sierra Leone, likely by rebels, and barely escaped along with Reuters' co-worker Mark Chisholm. Their Reuters colleague Kurt Schork, Behrakis' close friend, and AP cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno were killed. Prestigious awards included the World Press Photo in 2000, Bayeux-Calvados in 2016, and Photographer of the Year by the Guardian in 2015. He also led a Reuters team to a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for coverage of Europe's refugee crisis. Pictures above present a selection of some of his work. 1. A Syrian refugee kisses his daughter as he walks through a rainstorm towards Greece’s border with Macedonia, 2015. 2. A Kurdish refugee boy from the Syrian town of Kobani holds onto a fence that surrounds a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, 2014. 3. Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread during a humanitarian aid distribution at the Iraqi-Turkish border, 1991. 4. A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos, 2015. 5. A Somali aid worker carries a dead child for burial in a Baidoa refugee camp Somalia, 1992. 6. A group of riot policemen is engulfed in flames after protesters threw petrol bombs in Athens' Syntagma square during a 24-hour labour strike, 2012. Photos by Yannis Behrakis/Reuters. #photojournalism #photography #documentaryphotography #reportage #reportagespotlight #conflict #journalism #crisis #politics #clashes #migrations #refugeeswelcome #refugee #refugeecrisis #peace #discrimination #oppression #democracy #humanrights #humanitarianaid #humanitariancrisis #genocide #ethniccleansing #un

"The spot where [this] photo was taken not too far from there, there’s a bridge, that Neebing-McIntyre Floodway, and on the other side, that’s where my sister’s body was found in 1992. So that’s where we’ve been walking, since 2005. Every September, every full moon in September, we walk from city hall to the floodway, and we have our drum ceremony, we have our feast, we have family members that come and share their story, sing a song, and then we put our feast food down, we ...bless our food We also have a sunrise ceremony just across the floodway there, so we light a sacred fire, a fire burns all day, from morning to evening, after our walk is done. That’s what we do there every September in the full moon. We picked September because that’s the month my sister was born, and February, for the Valentine’s Day Walk, is when we lost her. We lost her on February the 13th." - Sharon Johnson, sister of Sandra Johnson, murdered 1992 Photo by Nadya Kwandibens @_anishinaabekwe National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) Repost Sacred MMIWG - FFADA sacrées #indigenous #indigenousrights #empowerment #missingandmurderedindigenouswomen #anishinaabe #metis #residentialschool #decolonize #womenempowerment #womensrights @ Canada See more