iWILL-helping girls who’ve been forced into slavery in Berlin
Next coffee morninga 7/10/11 and 4/11/11
International Women Impacting Local Lives
www.iwillhelp2.com
iwillhelp2@googlemail.com
"we can’t understand prostitution by looking only at the problem itself; we must also study the sociopolitical space around it. At present, nearly two-thirds of the world’s illiterates are women; during the first part of 2000, only nine women were heads of State, and women comprised only 8% of cabinet ministers. The majority of the 1.5 billion people living on one dollar or less per day are women, moreover, and on average, women earn slightly more than 50% of what men earn worldwide.*1.
Poverty is not measured only in terms of monetary income. Poverty must be measured in lack of basic human rights, including safety from violence and exploitation, availability of food, housing, health, education, work, and access to the benefits of social progress the things whose absence can indeed make prostitution seem like a tool for survival. A cruel illusion." Copyright by B. Julie Johnson, PhD, MPH
September 1, 2006
*1. See The World’s Women 2000: Trends and Statistics, United Nations Publication; “Poverty Overview,” United Nations Development Programme, available at www.undp.org/poverty; and “The Feminization of Poverty: Fact Sheet No. 1,” available at www.un.org/womenwatch.
