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In Words and Pictures: Women's Voices
Click the photos to enlarge and read the captions from the women and girls who took them... (Please note you may find some of the images disturbing.)
![](/uploads/pics/dscn0411.jpg "Lu Khu Paw opened a photo exhibition in Camp 1 with her picture of men "getting ready to run away" from women of the camp’s Gender-based Violence working group. She challenged camp leaders and reluctant men to "look and see and learn." Photo: Lu Khu Paw, Thailand")
![](/uploads/pics/Untitled-2.jpg "Photos like this closeup can determine the outcome of legal proceedings in domestic violence cases. The "victim" in this practice photo, a health care worker, used makeup to simulate injuries like those she had often treated herself. Photo: Naw Pa Lweh, Thailand")
![](/uploads/pics/dscn01211-561x421.jpg "At the Global Crescendo exhibition, photographer Beronica presented her photo of a husband working while his wife rests. Challenging widespread domestic violence in camp, she said, "This is how a family should be." Photo: Beronica, Thailand")
The International Rescue Committee works with thousands of women and girls every day. We know they have something to say and we know how easily their voices are lost.
A Global Crescendo: Women’s Voices from Conflict Zones is an ongoing photography and advocacy project with writer and photographer Ann Jones that gives women and girls who have survived conflict, displacement, discrimination and violence a chance to speak. With digital cameras, women in local communities document their own lives. Using their photographs, they advocate for themselves and make their voices heard.
With participants from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo and Thailand so far, photos from the project have also been displayed at the United Nations headquarters in New York and online.
