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Voices Unabridged, Inc is an international news organization with a 501 (c) (3) status. Its purpose is to raise awareness about issues affecting women's rights around the world. It publishes a unique quarterly online magazine of the same name: Voices Unabridged accessible online at www.voices-unabridged.org. It also implements programs in developing countries to educate women and children about their basic and fundamental rights.
Voices Unabridged Magazine has become the news outlet of reference on issues pertaining to women's rights for a global, educated audience in search of social justice. Through first-hand testimony, interviews from world experts and groundbreaking images, it shed light on events shaping women's lives.
Voices Unabridged Magazine relies on a group of top media professionals from around the world including: Canada, India, France, Belgium, U.S., Australia, Russia, Morocco, Ethiopia, Serbia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Egypt and more. These writers are contributors to leading world publications and news agencies, including: Le Monde, The Tribune (New Delhi), L'Express, The Moscow Times, USA Today, Itar-Tass News Agency, Belga, CBS News.com, Inter Press Service, Asahi Shimbun, The Village Voice, and Marie Claire. The photographers come from world-renowned agencies like Reuters, Associated Press, and the UN Photo Unit. This diverse team of experienced journalists and photographers from around the world shares a deep interest for human rights issues; they are the backbone of the magazine, the eyes and ears of women worldwide.
A Google Award received in October 2004 has boosted the traffic on the website by 573% in one year. Its photo essay on India's Invisible Women won the Grand Prize of photojournalism from Days Japan.
Voices Unabridged, Inc is currently developing an awareness program in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in partnership with the United Nations Mission in the DRC. "Our Rights Through our Eyes" aims to empower women in the South Kivu province by teaching them about their fundamental rights. These women will be given cameras for them to picture an ideal life. Photographic exhibits and workshop discussion will be then organized.
Why Voices Unabridged, Inc
During the twentieth century, universal standards and norms on women's human rights were codified through major international legal instruments. International bodies were also created to monitor and protect women rights.
Adopted in 1979 by the United Nations, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has often been described as an international bill of rights for women as it defines what constitutes discrimination against women and sets up an agenda for national action to end such discrimination. More recently, with the entry into force of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in July 2002, rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced sterilization, and any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity have been included in the definition of crimes against humanity
However, discrimination and violence are still pervasive. According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a woman dies from childbirth every minute. According to The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, two-thirds of the world's illiterates are women. And one in 3 women around the world will experience gender violence at some point in her life, according to Amnesty International. Fifty-one percent of all people living with HIV/AIDS, some 20 million people, are women.
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