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Human Trafficking - VietACT

Collected by starfish and 5 other people
Added October 16, 2007
Human Trafficking - VietACT quehuongvn 4 min - Jan 22, 2007 Human trafficking in Vietnam
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Me and the Mosque

Collected by Women News Network and 4 other people
Added February 07, 2008
Zarqa Nawaz, a young muslim woman from Saskatchewan, Canada, shares her story in her quest for women's equality inside the mosque. Through her journey Zarqa tries to understand -- Why has the world community of Islam become more conservative and less open to women today? A 2005 National Film Boar...
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Iran Islamic Dress Code

Collected by Women News Network and 3 other people
Added February 07, 2008
Iran launches a public message announcement reminding women to respect its Islamic dress codes, part of an ongoing pressure campaign by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. News report AFP, December 12th, 2007.
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Woman Sells Her Body Parts

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 23, 2008
The illegal organ harvesting business in India is active today and filled with crime and corruption. This is the story of one woman who was mislead into giving up her kidney. A National Geographic 4:54 min production. Nov 2007.
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History of Japan's Comfort Women

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 19, 2008
The excrutiating history of forced prostitution with the comfort women of Japan is one that must not be forgotten. As elderly survivors of this enslavement speak out Japan legislators have mixed reactions. A Sunday morning CBS news show excerpt. 2007
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Rosa Parks Speaks for Dignity

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 07, 2008
Rosa Parks asked the important question "Why?" to prejudice in America in the1950s. Her story is a bridge today that gives all people everywhere a chance for greater dignity.
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Fistula Suffering in the Congo

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 07, 2008
Mama Madou has been living with obstetric fistula for over 45 years. With the help of Dr. Adelard who provides fistula repair to women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, she is finally getting the services she needs. 2007 film.
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Midwives reaching out to women

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 10, 2008
For Mother's Day 2008 - Mothers worldwide deserve to have caring midwives present when they give birth. Safe and healthy birth is vital to the health of both mother and child. Legislative programs allowing midwives to practice and to be educated in the process of birth is vital to all women. UNFP...
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Women Farming Nepal - IDRC Nepal

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 03, 2008
Nepal's rural survival depends on agriculture. Often men control the business of agriculture. Even though women are involved from the ground up in food production, they have not been given management power in the agri-field in Nepal. Forestry, wood gathering and sustainability are also important ...
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Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bagladesh: Phone ladies

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 25, 2008
In Bangladesh, one of the least developed countries in the world, Microcredit from Grameen Bank has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their communities. Grameen production. 2:14 min.
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Water Voices Series (3) - India women drought workers

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added April 23, 2008
During a three-year drought, women from the arid rural areas in the state of Gujarat, India were spending at least three hours every day fetching water from a steadily diminishing source. Now the women are managing village systems, and bringing water closer to home. A Halsey Street Ltd. film prod...
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Women in Congo - Weapons of War

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added February 13, 2008
Women for Women International reports from DR Congo in concert with Anderson Cooper's piece for 60 Minutes, "War Against Women" featuring Women for Women International's program in the DR Congo. A Jan 2008 Women for Women International release. www.womenforwomen.org
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Women's Rights Morocco

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added January 12, 2008
"Against All Odds - Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis" Conservatives in Morocco accused women's groups of being "against Islam" when groups campaiged for family law reform in the 1990s. Amina Lemrini, Executive Committee Member of Association Democratique des Femmes du Maroc, spe...
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History - Women Activists - Suffrage

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added January 15, 2008
Women's rights did not come swiftly. A video dedicated to the U. S. suffragettes who fought for the rights of women to vote. We must appreciate the efforts of those before us who fought so hard to give women their rights in the United States.
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A Study of Female Circumcision Egypt

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added December 31, 2007
Egyptian villagers explain why they circumcise their daughters. This is an excerpt from a television program about female circumcision in Egypt, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on May 10, 2007. About 6,000 girls fall victim to genital mutilation every day, or about 2 million a year. The World Health ...
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Global Gender Gap Report 2007 - Saadia Zahidi

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added December 20, 2007
Saadia Zahidi head of the Women Leaders Programme at the World Economic Forum comments on the latest findings of the Global Gender Gap Report 2007. To see the report link to: http://www.weforum.org/gendergap 08.11.2007
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Maya Angelou Speaks Nov. 2007

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added December 20, 2007
Maya Angelou talks to the world of women as she addresses the International Women Leaders Global Security Summit. Nov 2007. The Summit is a project of The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands in partnership with the Council of Women World Leaders, The White House Project and the Women Lead...
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Women in Sudan: Field Report from Women for Women Int'l

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added December 06, 2007
Zainab Salbi, director of Women for Women International, visits Women for Women International's program in Southern Sudan. She shares firsthand the state of women in Sudan. Film release date: Oct 17, 2007 http://www.womenforwomeninternational.org
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Women facing war: Dzidza

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added December 05, 2007
Dzidza, from the Srebrenica "safe area" of Bosnia/Herzegovina is searching for her husband and sons still missing long after the war is over. This searing film is part of the personal stories covering eleven women who have been devastated by war. It was produced by the ICRC over a span of years 2...
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Wangari Maathai - Resources and Conflict

Collected by Women News Network and 3 other people
Added April 08, 2007
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai speaks on topics close to the heart of all women - scarce natural resources and global conflict. Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=439 In 2004, Wangari Maathai, was the founder of the Green Belt Movement in her home country of Keny...
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HIV+ Discrimination India - Women Tell Their Story

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 23, 2008
HIV+ woman in India tell their story of discrimination. A BreakThrough TV production. 2:19 min. Nov 20, 2006.
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Women in Kosovo - Rebuilding Their Future

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 14, 2008
As Kosovo declares its independence, one Kosovar women shares her story of triumph as she rebuilds her and her families life after they were forced to leave their home during the conflict with Serbia. Through Women for Women International, she has learned agricultural skills, has earned enough to...
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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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Life of a Geisha

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 04, 2008
Modern day Kyoto, Japan has the remnants of a centuries old tradition - Geisha. This excerpt from a Reuters report ,outlines the truth about modern Geisha life.. Reuters video. 2007.
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All-Women News Network in Bihar

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 28, 2008
In Dec. 2007, an all-women community news network, called Aapaan Samachar, in Bihar, India, uses the power of women in media to improve conditions in Bihar's remote Ramlila Gachi village. "We look around for issues that affect the villagers, shoot them and then put them on air,” says the channel’...
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Samburu malnutrition high for pregnant women

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 08, 2008
A UNICEF survey found that more than 60 per cent of pregnant women in drought-striken Samburu are malnourished, placing their lives and those of their unborn children at great risk Credits: Producer:Rachel Bonham Carter. May 2007. 2:05 min.
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Abay

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 05, 2008
This is the true story of a young girl named Abay. She was integral in helping to stop the act of female genital cutting in certain regions of Ethiopia. How did she do this? She said no. And she convinced others girls to say no too. After this, as an adult, Abay has worked endlessly to spread the...
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Survivors of Ravensbruk - Women's Camp 1944

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 05, 2008
Women tell their own story of survival in the largest women's concentration camp called Ravensbruk (1944). Ravensbrueck had 130,000 women and children that were imprisoned there. It was the only large concentration camp on German territory designated for women. In the spring of 1939, the first 1,...
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Burundian women refugees seek to rebuild lives

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 01, 2008
MUYINGA, Burundi, 5 December 2007 -- Chantal Nizigiyimana has been back in her home country of Burundi for only a few months, having lived in Tanzania since she was a young child. In 1993, her family was among hundreds of thousands of Burundians who fled across the border in order to avoid confli...
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ICT women India = Breaking the Myth

Collected by Women News Network
Added January 25, 2008
ICT in the hands of poor women in remote areas of India is a crucial key to fiancial independence and empowerment. SEWA Film 16:11 min 2006.
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