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Empowering Survivors of Trafficking & Violence in Nepal

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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 ...

Cargo Innocence Lost DECEPTION

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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...

Missing baby girls at birth

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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.

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.

Women's Right in Iran - part 1 of 7

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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...

Trading Women

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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

Sara's Story: A Whole Planet Foundation Borrower

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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...

Egyptian Women Discuss Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

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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.

Islamists : Women should not Appear on TV

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Added May 04, 2008
See this interesting debate between Islamic cleric and two Saudi women journalists. Saudi TV Newscaster Buthayna Nasser Slams Islamists over Initiative to Prevent Women from Appearing on TV LBC (Lebanon) - A Memritv.org production 3/25/2007 Video 4:01 min.

Microcredit from Grameen Bank in Bagladesh: Phone ladies

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Added April 25, 2008
In Bangladesh, one of the least developed countries in the world, Microcredit from Grameen Bank has brought mobile phone services to the most isolated villages. Poor rural women now operate small businesses providing public call services to their communities. Grameen production. 2:14 min.

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