17-02 Violence
A third of the women in the world have experienced violence from a family member. When I was eight years of age, I experienced an ugly argument between my parents and saw my father push my mother into a closet and lock the door. He opened it ten minutes later. But my mother proceeded to…
17-03 Rights
Women could not inherit. It was the law. The wrong child inherited in my great-grandfather’s family. What I loved about Downton Abbey, was its story of women’s rights during the period 1912 to 1925. My father’s mother’s life in Belfast during the same period was a similar story.My great-grandfather Devon in the early 1900s employed…
17-04 Trafficking
Prostitution is a $30 billion industry world-wide. I remember Moldova during our two-week tour of the Soviet Union in 1987, mainly because so many of the women looked like my grandmother who was born in Romania. And Moldova is part of Romania in terms of language, culture and history. It is an isolated unspoiled place…