Celebrating Women's Day with someone special

The 8^th of March is the day we mark International Women's Day. It’s the day, especially set aside to celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. It goes without saying that the new millennium has witnessed a significant change and attitudinal shift in both women's and society's thoughts about women's equality and emancipation. And many today feel that “all the battles have been won for women” as there are more women in the boardroom and there is greater equality in legislative rights. But it is an undeniable fact that women are still not paid equally to their male counterparts, women are still not present in equal numbers in business or politics, and globally women's education, health and the violence against them is worse than that of men. Much worse than that of men...
And although there are many angles of this reality on which to shine the light, today we talk about the tragic predicament of hundreds of thousands of girls and women who are enslaved and exploited by powerful rings of criminals who traffic in sex and slavery…
To do this Linda Bordoni spoke to Sister Eugenia Bonetti, a remarkable woman, the Director of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Office of the Italian Union of Major Superiors, and an internationally renowned freedom fighter on behalf of victims of human trafficking....
listen to the interview...