Aphrodite Wounded: Other Causes and Sites of Interest

Here is a collection of links to issues/causes/other,

not necessarily rape-related, that I consider worthwhile to see/support

Every day in our cities, women conscripted from other countries under false pretenses are being forced into

prostitution by ruthless racketeers and repeatedly raped. Please click the logo and join Amnesty International in the fight to stop sex trafficking and other violence to women.

Fight the burning, mutilation and other "honour killings" of the world's women.

Click the logo to see the work done by the SURGIR foundation..

The Christina Noble Children's Foundation

Christina Noble is a hero of mine. This woman experienced a dreadful history of child abuse, abandonment and rape, yet came out of that history to form a foundation that has improved the quality of life for thousands of children in Vietnam and Mongolia. Christina's story and her work will amaze and inspire you. To find out more, and to help her mission, click the logo.

Justice for Magdalenes

Anybody with a heart for human rights issues must be appalled at the plight of Irish women and children who, throughout the 1900's, were imprisoned, used as slave labour and abused physically, emotionally and sexually (many abused to death) in church-run institutions known as the Magdalene Laundries.To find out more, please see The Magdalene Story Please be in a strong space, because this may be intensely distressing. There is also an online mailing list that those interested can join. Click the logo on left to do so.