Women survivor

A SEX trafficking victim has shared her incredible story of survival after turning her life around to help other vulnerable woman after years of torture. Summer Dickerson was first sold for sex by …

Sheroes Hangout, founded in Agra in December 2014, is the first café in India run by acid attack survivors. Many girls have been attacked when they were teenagers, by relatives because of a family argument, by men whose marriage proposal was rejected, and other reasons. Being a woman in India can be difficult, and even more after such a trauma.

Carol Mayer, 53, from Cairns, was captured by London-native Brian Cassey, an award-winning photographer working across Australasia, who was struck by her 'startling blue eyes'.

For over years, women have been on the receiving end of patriarchy, bigotry, and societal pressure. This has led to a number of vile and heinous crimes against them.

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Australian nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was the sole survivor of the 1942 Bangka Island Massacre, in which 22 nurses were executed by Japanese soldiers.

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Portrait of Berthe Mayne, lover of Quigg Baxter who travelled under the name Madame de Villiers.