Amandas Ong

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Amandas Ong is a London-based freelance journalist. Her work is focused on social justice issues, in particular how inequalities cut across class, gender and nationality. She has written for Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Slate and other publications. Her reporting project, which takes the form of several character-driven longform articles, and delves into the lives and experiences of women facing economic hardship in the UK, is funded by the IWMF's Fund for Women Journalists.

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‘We deserve a fresh start’: The UK’s female victims of slavery

Emily’s* experience of child exploitation began when she was 11 and a middle-aged neighbour started cajoling her into smuggling packs of drugs around towns in northern England and Wales. Every drug run was a carefully…
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The Way Back In

According to research, approach to education is distinctly gendered. For women, it’s tied inextricably with the construction of self-worth. For female survivors of abuse, trafficking and other severe hardships, rebuilding confidence through learning and qualifications…
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Excluded: How women suffer from digital poverty in the UK

Until the first wave of COVID-19 hit the United Kingdom last year, Karon, who prefers not to give her full name, only ever made limited use of the internet. The last time there had been…