Videos about un millennium development goals videos

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Inuit women are the links to the past and to the future; Inuit women are the vessels of culture, health, language, traditions, teaching, care giving, and child rearing. These qualities are fundamental to the survival of any society. Video 4:11 min. For more information on Inuit women: Pauktuuti -...

When a village bank in Paraguay is formed by enterprising women, conditions for disadvantaged women can be vastly improved. Fundacion Paraguaya is helping many women today find new lives as owners of their own businesses and leaders who will go on to help other women. April 4, 2008 YouTube releas...

Young girls in Cambodia and from Vietnam are being sold everyday in the sex slaves trade. Young girls as young as 8 years old are sold into prostitution. Undercover investigations can help rescue some of the girls from these deplorable situations. Andrew Harding reports undercover for the BBC. An...

Self-immolation in Afghanistan is reaching a critical point today (May 2008). The cause? Domestic violence in the family, forced marriage, lack of rights for Pashtun women in Afghanistan cause women to reach the point of desperation and no return. CNN news report April 2007 - 3:57 min.

Stunning images of women working on a moon-like landscape frame the unrelenting cycle of work of the women of Ada who harvest salt with their bare hands. The natural forming salt lagoon in has provided income for the local women for over three hundred years. A sound track by Patty Stotter, tradit...

Child gender issues for China's women have been part of the history of China for some time now. Today things are beginning to change. A 2008 UNFPA production.