Empowering Women Worldwide
Episode description
Join Johanna and I as she shares the injustices that our sisters are globally fighting and why she created Project Monma; an organization that aims to raise awareness about violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world. It is a global problem and is not confined to certain countries and religions; it is everyone’s problem. Violence and discrimination by men towards women around the world is severely under-reported and therefore under-acknowledged.
Discussed in this episode:
- [1:27] Why Johanna chose the name Project Monma
- [2:20] Governments lack of support for women’s rights
- [5:49] Johanna and I talk about our experience with the ‘male gaze’
- [7:28] Research and documenting women’s stories in Cambodia
- [10:05] Education restrictions for women
- [11:05] Families selling the women and children in the family
- [12:12] Forced marriages
- [14:47] The lack of sex education
- [17:17] Placing shame on victims of sexual violence is illogical
- [19:03] Johanna shares harassment stories from women she’s encountered
- [24:14] ‘Blaming’ from the point of view of a male student
- [26:52] Deli Rape Case
- [28:29] Men prefer to marry virgins, no man will marry a woman who’s been raped
- [34:59] Rape laws for women in descent-based slavery in West Africa
- [37:22] There is more slavery today than there has ever been
- [38:03] Sex slavery and human trafficking
- [41:05] Racism between countries
- [47:13] Giving education, critical thinking, and global knowledge to these women
- [49:14] Johanna talks about how Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- [52:17] Talking and spreading awareness will help create change
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Submission (Part1) - Written By Ayaan Hirsi & Directed By Theo van Gogh
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