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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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Empowering Survivors of Trafficking & Violence in Nepal

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added June 07, 2008
Women from Nepal who have survived trafficking and gender-based violence are often discriminated against and have no where to turn. Doctors of the World-USA & partner SAATHI provide psychosocial services and medical care to these women through shelters, and empower them to take control of their ...
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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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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

Collected by Women News Network
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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Vietnam - A Women's Caravan

Collected by Women News Network
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?

Collected by Women News Network
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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Helen Keller - An Amazing Life

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
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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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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Missing baby girls at birth

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 27, 2008
Female feticide is causing girl births in India to be far less than boys. India's growing middle class has the worst statistics as femicide takes the form of girl-child abortions. 2:42 min BBC news production March 2008.
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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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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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Asia/Pacific trafficking - MTV EXIT Special - Christian Bautista

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 04, 2008
MTV EXIT Documentary presented by Christian Bautista to raise awareness of human trafficking. Traffic is a unique and powerful program presented by multiple celebrities in multiple languages that addresses the issue of human trafficking in Asia-Pacific: log on to www.mtvexit.com for more inform...
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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

Collected by direitosehumanos and 1 other person
Added April 26, 2008
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Women's Right in Iran - part 1 of 7

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 03, 2008
This program is a discussion of human rights with a focus on women's rights in Iran. Covered are a brief timeline of Iran's political history and women's contributions to human rights, past and present. A comparison of the current political atmosphere with Iran's past and future is highlighted, a...
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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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Face of Wisdom: Betty Kozasa

Collected by Women News Network
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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Trading Women

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 27, 2008
Scene clip from the documentary Calcutta Hilton. Sonagacchi is Calcutta's largest red-light district with over 6000 women. A NZ family is making a difference giving women a way out of the sex trade. DVD available from www.calcuttahilton.com
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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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Sara's Story: A Whole Planet Foundation Borrower

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 22, 2008
Whole Planet Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by Whole Foods Market, provides grants to microfinance institutions in Latin America, Africa and Asia, which, in turn, develop and offer microenterprise loan programs, training, and other financial services to the self-employed poor in...
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Egyptian Women Discuss Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 22, 2008
Egyptian women discuss female genital mutilation as it exists in Egypt today. One woman shares her personal experience with circumcision and another as a practitioner of FGM describes the process. A MemriTV production 2008. 7:04 min.
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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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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 Farmers in Tanzania

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 08, 2008
Women in Tanzania are working more than men today as they feed their families. Women farmers across the country of Tanzania have been making great changes for the lives of their families and communities. They are leaders of agriculture and creating business that are giving them sustainable living...
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Women face high risk of death from childbirth in Afghanistan

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 06, 2008
HIgh mortality rates among women giving birth has become a major health issue in Afghanistan. More and more children are being left as orphans in the war-torn country. In Afghanistan's eastern town of Faizabad, six orphans are left in the care of their aunt, who feeds them rice and bread. The orp...
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Circlework: A Path to Peace in the Middle East

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 25, 2008
Sample of an 18-minute documentary filmed in Israel that shows Jalaja Bonheim leading circles for Jewish and Palestinian women. Jalaja Sample of an 18-minute documentary filmed in Israel that shows Jalaja Bonheim leading circles for Jewish and Palestinian women. Jalaja Bonheim is the founder of ...
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Beverley Jacobs: Indigigeous Resistance to Globalization, Part 1

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 25, 2008
Beverley Jacobs, Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in southwestern Ontario, President of the Native Women's Association of Canada, at the Teach-In on Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization, November 2006. She speaks on the effect of globalization on indige...
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Haiti, Starvation Mud Cookies

Collected by Women News Network
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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