You're a woman? Have you been born in Spain? You're lucky. Ritu Saini, Rupa, Aarti or Baby Seibureh have not run the same fate. If you were born in the West or in any developed country, women have been fighting for your rights years. Specifically since 1909 when an organization of socialist women celebrated in the US the first International Women's Day. We know there is still much to do. If we look at the world, in countries such as Indonesia, India, Sierra Leone and many more ... born a woman continues to imply a lack of freedom and abysmal rights.
It is very hard but, if you are a woman and had been born in Bandung Indonesia and not in Spain you probably would not have clitoris.
Photo: Stephanie Sinclair - Genital mutilation.
If you were born in agra (India) instead of Spain the chances of suffering an acid attack would multiply by millions.
Photo: Stephanie Sinclair - Survive an acid attack.
If you had been born in Sierra Leone instead of Spain you would be married to whom it touched you and not who you decided.
Photo: Stephanie Sinclair - Concerted Marriages
If you were born in Dehli in a poor family and not in Spain it would have to work to take money home instead of going to school.
Photo: Stephanie Sinclair - exposed to sexual violence.
Let's keep fighting so that all women in the world have rights, freedom and power to decide on their lives. Today, March 8, remember that there is still much to fight for.
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