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Join Johanna and I as she shares the injustices that our sisters are globally fighting and why she created Project Monma; an organization that aims to raise awareness about violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world. It is a global problem and is not confined to certain countries and religions; it is everyone’s problem. Violence and discrimination by men towards women around the world is severely under-reported and therefore under-acknowledged.

Discussed in this episode: 

• [1:27] Why Johanna chose the name Project Monma
• [2:20] Governments lack of support for women’s rights
• [5:49] Johanna and I talk about our experience with the ‘male gaze’
• [7:28] Research and documenting women’s stories in Cambodia
• [10:05] Education restrictions for women
• [11:05] Families selling the women and children in the family
• [12:12] Forced marriages
• [14:47] The lack of sex education
• [17:17] Placing shame on victims of sexual violence is illogical
• [19:03] Johanna shares harassment stories from women she’s encountered
• [24:14] ‘Blaming’ from the point of view of a male student
• [26:52] Deli Rape Case
• [28:29] Men prefer to marry virgins, no man will marry a woman who’s been raped
• [34:59] Rape laws for women in descent-based slavery in West Africa
• [37:22] There is more slavery today than there has ever been
• [38:03] Sex slavery and human trafficking
• [41:05] Racism between countries
• [47:13] Giving education, critical thinking, and global knowledge to these women
• [49:14] Johanna talks about how Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• [52:17] Talking and spreading awareness will help create change

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