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 New Brunswick has higher than Canadian average rate of women murdered by their partners. Women in the province still make only about 87 percent of what men do (and that is actually an improvement). There are 67 sexual assaults per 100,00 women and about 1500 women sought refuge in shelters and transition houses in year 2005-2006. About 10 percent of women live below poverty line and and a quarter of women in single parent, female headed, families live below the poverty line. The government’s response: TO STOP COLLECTING FUCKING STATISTICS ON IT! Here is a photo that was a test for a story I wanted to shoot while in Croatia, but unfortunately it never got anywhere. It was supposed to be a holga piece or maybe a Smena-8M piece. Smena 8M is a little gem I forgot about. My parents found it and kept it for me. It was truly my first camera. I bought it in a kiosk for some silly amount of money in high school. The piece I wanted to do was personal, sort of a walk through my own memories in my hometown and I hoped to eventually do something with it, but first and foremost I wanted to do it for myself. It did not happen and that's one of the regrets I have about the trip. This is an apartment building, typical, really, of the socialist functional architecture, where my grandmother lived. I spent many, many summer days here, reading, helping my grandma make jams and pickles and carrying groceries from the nearby farmer's market.'A government monitors what it considers important,' said the council chair Ginette Petitpas-Taylor. 'For about a dozen years, the New Brunswick government compiled statistics on reported woman abuse incidents, including court outcomes. This year, the government discontinued publication.' [rest of the story here] Check out this lovely piece on Istanbul by Alex Webb. Croatian word of the day: baka: grandma | |
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