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Saudi Arabia, which ranked 131st out of 134 countries for gender parity in a recent report from the World Economic Forum, has unveiled what is believed to be its first major ad campaign condemning violence against women. The first ad, created by Memac Ogilvy in Riyadh for the King Khalid Foundation, shows a woman in a niqab with a black eye. The English version of the copy reads: “Some things can’t be covered: Fighting women’s abuse together.” 

Saudi Arabia, which ranked 131st out of 134 countries for gender parity in a recent report from the World Economic Forum, has unveiled what is believed to be its first major ad campaign condemning violence against women. The first ad, created by Memac Ogilvy in Riyadh for the King Khalid Foundation, shows a woman in a niqab with a black eye. The English version of the copy reads: “Some things can’t be covered: Fighting women’s abuse together.” 

Happy international women’s day to all the girls and women I’ve been lucky enough to photograph.

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‘I am around ninety years old. I had a happy life. A good husband. I tattooed his initials on my chest. Unfortunately, he died in 1976. The worst day of my life is still buried deep inside my soul. I had two daughters before the war. But then the war started here and my daughter got pregnant. We started running away. But the belly of my daughter was very big and we had to rest. They asked: ‘Is it a girl? Is it a boy?’ They opened the belly and took the baby out of the stomach. They threw the baby in the water and they killed my daughter.’ Jessie Jon, Liberia Image © JR; caption text by Marco Berrebi from Women are Heroes, by my hero JR.

‘I am around ninety years old. I had a happy life. A good husband. I tattooed his initials on my chest. Unfortunately, he died in 1976.

The worst day of my life is still buried deep inside my soul. I had two daughters before the war. But then the war started here and my daughter got pregnant. We started running away. But the belly of my daughter was very big and we had to rest. They asked: ‘Is it a girl? Is it a boy?’ They opened the belly and took the baby out of the stomach. They threw the baby in the water and they killed my daughter.’ Jessie Jon, Liberia

Image © JR; caption text by Marco Berrebi

from Women are Heroes, by my hero JR.

I vote wrong. #vintageopinions

I vote wrong. #vintageopinions

Why are women so afraid to say they want power and so unwilling to plot a course to get it? The Scarlet A.

Fantastic article on the way women approach success/ambition - from Hillary Clinton showing “surprise” at being picked for secretary of state by Obama, to Oprah - the US’s 1st black billionaire - saying she “doesn’t think of herself as a businesswoman”. Great quote: “It seems that from their earliest days, boys know they’re supposed to have a specific interest; they can decide to be and do whatever they want. Girls are now told they can be and do anything, but they’re much less likely to be taught that they should have a life plan that’s intentional. Girls are socialized to be reactive; boys are socialized to be the askers, girls the askees.”