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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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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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Helen Keller - An Amazing Life

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added May 28, 2008
Helen Keller, an amazing woman born blind and deaf, lived a life that illuminated the needs of countless others. She never heard the crowds cheer her or saw the faces of those she met light up as they greeted her. In life, Helen reached far past her own darkness to help all the world. This film e...
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Dialog on FGM - Female Genital Mutilation - Ethiopia

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added June 09, 2008
A discussion among women, men and an account from children in Ethiopia about the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM). Language: Amharic & Somali w/ English Subtitles. Video/film 4:38 min. YouTube release March 29, 2008.
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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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Face of Wisdom: Betty Kozasa

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 28, 2008
Japanese internment camps during World War II made life extremely hard for countless Japanese American women. Up to 110,000 "inmates" were sent to US camps and other holding facilities in 1942-1946. This clip shows part of a first-hand account of a one of the forced internment camps by Japanese A...
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Cargo Innocence Lost DECEPTION

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 27, 2008
For those who believe that prostitutes are women that want to sell their bodies for cash... think again. Cargo: Inocence Lost tells a very different story of adoloescent girls from around the world being bought, traded, and sold to traffickers in the United States and being forced to prostitute i...
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A Powerful Noise

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 15, 2008
An official selection of the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, this inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women -- in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Mali and Vietnam -- as they overcome barriers to lead day-to-day battles against ignorance, poverty, oppression, and ethnic strife. Visit www.apowerfulno...
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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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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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Human Trafficking - Part 1

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Added April 26, 2008
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ICLA Kathmandu

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 23, 2008
Information meeting on civil documentation and property rights for displaced women in Kathmandu.
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Gambian Women Make Purses from Trash Bags

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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

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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

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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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Vietnam - A Women's Caravan

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Added June 07, 2008
A new project in Vietnam aims at giving minority women in Vietnam a chance to speak out... to better the conditions of their daily lives. This is part one of a a project from the NGO - GVC Italy - UN Mondo Di Solidareita. 9:15 min.
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Saudi Cleric View - Why Shouldn't Women Drive?

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Added June 06, 2008
Saudi cleric, Dr. Abd Al-Azizz Al-Fawzan, discusses his feelings why women should NOT be allowed to drive a car. Al-Majd TV (Saudi Arabia) - Memri TV production June 17, 2005. 1:45 min.
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Struggling to Survive

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 30, 2008
Women and their families in the US who are trying to work on minumum wage are suffering deeply from a crisis that is going unheaded in American media. This 2003 film was made by teenagers in eastern Kentucky as they turned their cameras on the living wage crisis in their community. 7:53 min produ...
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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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Rebuilding a safety net for new mothers in Indonesia

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 27, 2008
UNICEF is building much needed maternity service clinics in Indonesia. This film follows Indonesian midwife, Radliana who is doing her rounds in the village of Tanjong. 2:29 min. UNICEF film production 2008.
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Dead from Honour Killing

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 21, 2008
Honor killing can only hit home when we see the faces of those who have been killed. May 2008 YouTube release. 3:03 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 Farming Nepal - IDRC Nepal

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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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Haiti, Starvation Mud Cookies

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Added April 25, 2008
Haiti starvation report. Showing desperate measures to feed family. Emily Chang, London CNN correspondent. CNN TV production release - Feb 25, 2008. 1:35 min.
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Rachel Corrie

Collected by Riconciliazione and 2 other people
Added April 12, 2008
Rachel Corrie
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