Vodpod Human Rights Videos

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 ...

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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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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