Tag: the-streets
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Former sex slave helps women reclaim their branded bodies with new tattoos
By Emma Batha LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – After escaping years of sexual slavery, Jennifer Kempton could not look in the mirror without being taken back to her dark, traumatic past. It’s happening all over the world,” said Kempton who suffered horrific brutality during six years working on the streets of Columbus, Ohio. Two years…
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Queen Latifah, grannies join mass anti-AIDS rallies in S.Africa
US singer and actress Queen Latifah joined a mass anti-AIDS march in the South African city of Durban Saturday, where grandmothers bringing up children orphaned by the disease also took to the streets. Holding up signs that read “I care, do you?”, around a thousand grandmothers walked in a colourful procession to draw attention to…