We all want to be safe, whether it means safe in our lover’s arms, a good environment, physical safety or financial stability; safety is the threshold we never want to tip. Even in Psychological Science, Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs places safety as only the second bar needing fulfilment after we’ve satisfied the basic needs of breathing and eating, for example. That should say something! Safe is a word that is basically defined as being secure, at ease and not in danger. So h

by Tristyne Brindle “Women make up half of the world's population and yet represent a staggering 70% of the world's poor...” - Global Poverty Info Bank (2013) How could this be? Sadly, it starts from birth. When families favor males, young girls are sometimes left to die, be malnourished, or suffer from untreated medical conditions. In many cultures, genital mutilation is done with maternal consent, leading to a life full of pain, infection, and in many cases, death. If they

By Shucheesmita Simonti "Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture." - Charlotte Bunch Johan Galtung (1969) was one of the founding scholars who developed a typology of violence. He made an elaborate list of activities under each category and argued that violence is not merely the "intentional use of force….against one or more others …to inflict injury or death", and it is not nece