Postcard to emancipation
A unique campaign to create awareness about
women’s rights:
It’s just a rectangular piece of thin cardboard,
innocuous in terms of influence, even fragile if one considers its
breakability. But the message it is seeking to deliver is potent –
Empowerment. Equality. Emancipation. Rights.... simple words, yet
powerful in their import, especially for women, for whom every step
forward towards an enlightened world has been akin to breaching a
new frontier of male domination. Little wonder then that round the
world 62 million girls don’t have access to education, 1 in 3 women
experience gender-based violence in her lifetime and more than
287,000 women, 99 percent of them in developing countries, die from
pregnancy and childbirth-related complications every year.
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