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Afro-Bedouin women speak through - The Film Class

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 02, 2008
When the women from the Afro-Bedouin community in the southern region of the Negev Desert, Israel speak out in a journalism training class, a new understanding of the taboos of society emerge. These courageous women report on underreported cases of harsh discrimination inside their world. This sh...
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Silent Tears - Nepal child marriage (part2)

Collected by Women News Network and 4 other people
Added May 21, 2008
Nepal is still seeing child bride marriages that hold girls in subservient positions caught in the cycle of early motherhood, domestic violence, poverty and suffering that comes from being female in Nepal. Film/video 8:19 min.
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Campaign for Equality Iran - 1 Million Signature

Collected by Women News Network and 3 other people
Added May 03, 2008
The Campaign, "One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws," also called the "Change for Equality" campaign, is a campaign initiated by Iranian women's rights activists in Iran which aims to collect one million signatures to demand changes to discriminatory laws against women ...
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Obstetric Fistula - A Walk to Beautiful - NOVA PBS

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 24, 2008
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia has treated over 30,000 women who suffer from a birth injury called a fistula. These women, most of whom are rejected by society, get a second chance at life. Watch NOVA every Tuesday night on PBS. Or join PBS online at: http://www.pbs.org/nova Fundin...
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Gambian Women Make Purses from Trash Bags

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 19, 2008
The Mandinaba Womens' Recycling Group is a 14-member association recently started in the small West African village of Mandinaba located in the Western Region of The Gambia. Concerned with the overwhelming presence of plastic bags in the environment this group decided to use crochet hooks to recy...
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Rwanda Genocide - Women Speak

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 14, 2008
More than 800,000 people were murdered in 1994 during the Rwanda Genocide. Now two women who survived it tell their personal and important stories. April 2007 YouTube release. 7:59 min.
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All-women team clears wartime bombs in Laos

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 14, 2008
In the remote area of Laos, de-mining team made up entirely of women... is working hard to help clear unexploded bombs. Let's see how this 12 women team does it. A NTDTV 1:40 min production.
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Beah: A Black Woman Speaks Out

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added May 15, 2008
In 1920, African American woman hero, Beah Richards, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi with a mother who was a seamstress and a father who was a Baptist minister. At one point she was called the most important Black women in communist America speaking out for justice at every opportunity. Film ...
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Modern slavery of women in Israel - trafficking

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added June 06, 2008
Investigative report reveals the scope and evil of modern slavery of women in Israel today. Appeared on Israeli television news programs "Uvdah" and "Mabat Sheni" in February 2006. Reproduced with full permission. 1:03:35
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Cambodia: CHILD SEX SLAVERY (1of2)

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 14, 2008
When Dalyn was only 12 years old when she was forced to work in a brothel in Phenom Penn. She was tricked and forced into prostitution. Locked in a cage with others underneath the brothel, she was starved, tortured and threatened until she agreed to service clients. 6:30 min. YouTube release Apri...
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Turning to Islam - British woman converts

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 10, 2008
Why do women who have grown up in a different religion convert to Islam? Why is Islam so appealing to them... ? Follow the life of a woman from England who has decided to convert to Islam. Watch her first day at work as she wears her hijab (head scarf). Sept. 2007 YouTube release. 10.18 min.
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Cyber Spaces: Africa

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 08, 2008
Slowly the tide is changing and many women in Nigeria who never were given the chance are now beginning to access a new world through ICT and new technology. Posted to YouTube by Women's Learning Partnership July 25, 2007. 2:17 min.
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Asia/Pacific trafficking - MTV EXIT Special - Christian Bautista

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 04, 2008
MTV EXIT Documentary presented by Christian Bautista to raise awareness of human trafficking. Traffic is a unique and powerful program presented by multiple celebrities in multiple languages that addresses the issue of human trafficking in Asia-Pacific: log on to www.mtvexit.com for more inform...
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United Nations Millennium Campaign - Goal 5- Maternal Health

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 04, 2008
An educated women knows what to do to protect herself and her baby during childbirth. The UN Millennium Campaign Goals have 189 countries signed up to eliminate poverty. Now they must keep this promise to save women's lives. Today one in 16 women in sub-saharan Africa dies in childbirth. We can c...
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Beyond Belief - Loss of Family Told by Afghan Women

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 01, 2008
Two American widows of 911 journey from their comfortable neighborhoods to the most desperate Afghan villages, they discover a powerful bond with each other, an unlikely kinship with widows halfway around the world, and a profound way to move beyond tragedy. Film excerpt: 1:30 min. Director Beth ...
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In Transit

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 30, 2008
War in the Democratic Republic of Congo for women included sexual violence and rape. Many women came away from this with terrible holes in their reproductive body called fistulas. The results and pain with this are catastrophic for women... all a harsh reminder of rape. 6:00 min excerpt. For more...
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Dr. Dorj Munkhuu hero of Mongolia

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 19, 2008
Dr. Dorj Munkhuu, a heroine among the Mongolian people, has changed the landscape today for Mongolian women. Mongolia today is facing a new world because of women who step forward. A UNFPA Feb 2008 release. 2:01 min.
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Everywoman - The veil - 16 May 08 - Part 1

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 18, 2008
In Part Two of Everywoman TV special on the veil we meet an Egyptian girl who has made the decision not to cover up (with the veil). May 16, 2008. 10:53 min.
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Out from the rubble - China

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 16, 2008
A woman's grace and endurance keeps her alive during a devastating earthquake as she thanks her rescuers in Chengdu, China. A CNN report May 14, 2008. 0.51 min.
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Corruption in Juarez - On the Edge - Part 5 of 10

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 14, 2008
Why are the police in Juarez, Mexico threatening families who want to investigate the murder of their daughters? Police complicity with drug traffickers keeps at liberty the killers of so many women in Ciudad Juarez on the US-Mexican border. Listen to the experts on this. Video 3:47 min. For more...
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Women - US internment camps 1940s - Masumi Hayashi art memorial

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 13, 2008
When the US interned Japanese women and their familes during World War Two, many women felt betrayed by the country (US) they called home. This film/video shows the artistic work of Masumi Hayashi as she tells the story. 4:27 min. WV Broadcasting 2004 video / youtube release Dec. 20, 2006
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Ugandan Fistula Survivor: Federesi's Story

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 05, 2008
Learn from My Story: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda... In August 2007, the ACQUIRE Project partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling and St. Joseph's Hospital in Uganda to coordinate a workshop for Ugandan women who have experienced obstetric fistula. This story recounts the hard...
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Women's Power - Indigenous women - Matrilineal history

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 04, 2008
Matrilineal and matrilocal culture of women history. 5:41 min. Excerpt from Women's Power dvd by Max Dashu Suppressed Histories Archives: http://www.suppressedhistories.net New: Women's Power DVD http://www.suppressedhistories.net/womenspowerdvd.html
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FGM Senegal - Female Genital Mutilation

Collected by Women News Network
Added January 12, 2008
The conditions around FGM - female genital mutilation in Senegal is tied to the cultural framework of the country. Tied to a woman's desire to receive acceptance in marriage in Senegal society. Slowly women are learning today that they have choices and do not have to blindly follow tradition. thi...