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Sing the First Amendment w/Code Pink

Collected by Women News Network
Added September 04, 2008
Code Pink, known for their theatrical protests against the Iraq war were there at the US Republican National Convention getting arrested in the name of peace. A Sept 4, 2008 - 2:55 min mobilecam video by www.uptake.org.
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Women's Prison - Afghanistan

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Added September 04, 2008
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr visits Kabul's Pol-i-Charki prison where women are imprisoned for running away from an abusive husband or committing adultery. Human rights groups say laws do little to protect these women in Afghan prisons. A May 2007, 3:01 min Aljazeera video production..
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The DAVOS question = girl humanitarians

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added August 17, 2008
As the world tries to answer the DAVOS question, young humanitarian, Tamanna & her friends from Gole Kuan, Okhla, New Delhi, speak out about how their personal world can be improved. A 3:21 min Jan 18, 2008 YouTube release.
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Change for a better world

Collected by Women News Network
Added August 17, 2008
Micro-credit unions, are helping and empowering women in Glasgow, Scotland. This creative way of giving loans is working. A July 11, 2008, 12:07 video, by Open Univeristy UK.
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Everywoman - Saudi Human Rights Watch report-09 May 08- Pt 1

Collected by Women News Network
Added August 17, 2008
Saudi Arabian women are treated like "children" throughout their adult life. This means that they are restricted from traveling or leaving the house for any reason without a mail guardian. Saudi women cannot even enter a government building. This (and a report on extreme makeovers in China and an...
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Supporting Women Coffee Farmers in Mexico

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added July 23, 2008
This update from Sustainable Harvest at Origin in Mexico provides an inside look at the women farmers from the 21st of September coffee cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico. The women are organizing themselves into a formal women's group to manage productive community projects, help organize and sell lo...
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Maasai Women Speak Out Candidly

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added July 02, 2008
The Maasai Women of East Africa speak out candidly about their life and their needs. 2008 0.41 min YouTube release.
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Woman Sells Her Body Parts

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
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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Waging war on the pay gap

Collected by georgesarlis and 1 other person
Added June 18, 2008
March the 8th is International Women's Day. But how much have women in Europe got to celebrate? Women earn an average of 15% less than men- a figure which rises to 25% in the private sector. Reducing the gender pay gap is an important topic on the European political agenda. A new video report...
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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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I Dare You

Collected by Women News Network
Added August 06, 2008
The most powerful force of change on the planet is a girl. The Girl Effect production - May 22, 2008. 2:31 min.
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Sterile Dreams by Jehan S. Harney

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Added August 06, 2008
Forced sterilization of Roma (gypsy) women who have been pushed to the edges of society has been part of a shameful history in the Czech Republic. This short film excerpt shows the suffering of women forced and unable to have children after their ordeal. 1:17 min 2007 YouTube release.
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The Forgotten Woman Clip

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Added August 06, 2008
Shot entirely in India, this visually stunning and powerful call for human rights exposes the dire situation of millions of widows who are forced into isolation and poverty by age-old traditions. This clip features the women struggling to find food as their families and society no longer care for...
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Mexico Village Says NO to Women Votes

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Added August 06, 2008
Women are barred from local elections in a Mexico village, because the men say they don't do enough work. But a 27-year-old woman ran for mayor, only to have the results thrown out. Mexico's constitution guarantees votes for men and women. (Jan. 25, 2008) AP production 1:23 min.
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Child trafficking rife in Benin - FRANCE24-EN-Report

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Added July 23, 2008
Child trafficking, rife in Benin Dantokpa is in the heart of Cotonou. It is also the biggest market for children in West Africa. This report follows children on the streets of Benin Dantokpa. According to UNICEF, about 500,000 children between the ages of five and fourteen are victims of this sh...
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Talk to Jazeera - Ingrid Betancourt - 12 Jul 08 - Part 2

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 20, 2008
Al Jazeera talks to former Farc hostage Ingrid Betancourt. A 12 July, 2008 10:20 min Ajazeera TV news production.
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A Duty To Protect : Justice for Child Soldiers in the D.R.C.

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Added July 20, 2008
In the late 1990s girl soldiers involved in the war in the DRC - Democratic Republic of Congo were kidnapped and forced to perform hideous crimes as they attacked villages. This 4:56 film shows the life of girl soldiers who have begun to enter back into normal life again after years of pain and s...
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Status - Muslim Women -Turkey

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Added July 18, 2008
Turkey is a nation of 99% Islamic faith. In Turkey we see the opposite of Iran as far as women who are forced to wear Islamic dress. In Turkey women are forced NOT to wear Islamic headscarves - the hijab. 8:44 min Jan 2008 YouTube release.
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Comfort women - 60 years of tears

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 18, 2008
Surviving victims of sexual slavery forced by Japanese Army spoke out in Taiwan in 1992. Only 27 left in 2006. The experiences under Japanese military during WWII were too shameful to speak. This 8 minutes film looks back on the history of Japanese sexual slavery in Asia as survivors try to get t...
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Bosnian war rape survivors + UN bomb removal heroes

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Added July 14, 2008
It's believed that tens of thousands of women were raped during the Bosnian war in the 1990s. Organized rape camps were also part of the activities. On Everywoman TV, Marijana Senjak, a counsellor to those traumatised by rape in Bosnia helps women war survivors. This story + more on EverywomanTV....
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Arzu - Hope By Design

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 10, 2008
The women of Afghanistan need our help. Arzu, meaning hope in Dari, is the name of a new organization that provides sustainable income to Afghan women by sourcing and selling the rugs they weave. Arzu helps weavers and their families break the cycle of poverty by providing them above market compe...
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African Woman Food Farmer Initiative

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Added June 06, 2008
This program of training, credit and savings empowers the most important but least supported producers in Africa - the women who grow 80% of Africa's food.
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Empowering women through literacy in northern Nigeria

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Added June 03, 2008
UNICEF correspondent Kun Li reports on the story of Hadiza Adamu, 45, and her journey to literacy and empowerment in Nigeria.
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Child labor in Central America

Collected by avladu and 1 other person
Added January 31, 2008
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Not For Sale Campaign

Collected by headmutha and 4 other people
Added March 09, 2007
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Religious Police and Govermental Lens

Collected by Iran: Oil vs. Democ...
Added May 14, 2008
In front of the Islamic government's TV camera, encounters are friendly and calm. In a realistic situation this Woman would have been arrested for her inappropriate veil and clothing !
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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. A Women for Women International Feb 2008 production. 6:03 min
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City of Dead Girls

Collected by sandra_ljubinkovic and 2 other people
Added June 03, 2007
... the girls murderers. What has made Ciudad Juarez so dangerous for women? This ...
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view from a grain of sand - Afghan women

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 20, 2008
Women in Afghanistan were not suddenly plunged into brutal un-freedom when the Taliban came to power in 1996. Nor have they always been subject to repressive rule. In a documentary that is both intimate and broadly political, Meena Nanji offers a view of the past thirty years of Afghanistan's his...
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