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Maasai Women Speak Out Candidly

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added July 02, 2008
The Maasai Women of East Africa speak out candidly about their life and their needs. 2008 0.41 min YouTube release.
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Highway Courtesans Featurette

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 27, 2008
Woman documentary filmmaker, Mystelle Brabbee, took nine years to produce her film -Highway Courtesans - which tells the centuries old story of family sanctioned prostitution in the Bachara community of Central India. These respected prostitutes support their families as they work the highway ser...
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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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Silent Tears - Nepal child marriage (part2)

Collected by Women News Network and 4 other people
Added May 21, 2008
Nepal is still seeing child bride marriages that hold girls in subservient positions caught in the cycle of early motherhood, domestic violence, poverty and suffering that comes from being female in Nepal. Film/video 8:19 min.
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Domestic Violence a Serious Problem in Burundi

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 25, 2008
Francine recalls the night she woke up as her arms were being hacked off by her husband because she gave birth to a girl. In Burundi, women's limited economic options often keep them in abusive situations. Some Burundians are agitating for changes in the law. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA news. ...
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Guatemalan Child Worker: Ana

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 25, 2008
Ana is a 15 year old girl that worked at the Legumex/Tierra Fria frozen foods processing plant in Guatemala. In this interview she highlights some of the abuses she endured while working at the plant. For more information go to www.nlcnet.org. 4:20 min March 2007 release.
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Obstetric Fistula - A Walk to Beautiful - NOVA PBS

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 24, 2008
The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia has treated over 30,000 women who suffer from a birth injury called a fistula. These women, most of whom are rejected by society, get a second chance at life. Watch NOVA every Tuesday night on PBS. Or join PBS online at: http://www.pbs.org/nova Fundin...
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Daughter of Liberty- Lima

Collected by Women News Network
Added June 23, 2008
In 1971 a city in the sand was built in Lima. One woman, Maria Elena Moyano, was an important founder at the young age of only 16. Twice she was elected as leader as she pushed and spoke for the women of Villa El Salvador... In the face of death threats and corrupt forces she continued her dream...
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Rwanda Genocide - Women Speak

Collected by Women News Network
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

Collected by Women News Network
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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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 ...
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Girls Gone Missing

Collected by Women News Network and 2 other people
Added May 15, 2008
Sex Selection in South Asia has left India with too many men and not enough women. This is gender femicide. April 2008 UNFPA film. 6:15 min.
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Water Voices Series (3) - India women drought workers

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added April 23, 2008
During a three-year drought, women from the arid rural areas in the state of Gujarat, India were spending at least three hours every day fetching water from a steadily diminishing source. Now the women are managing village systems, and bringing water closer to home. A Halsey Street Ltd. film prod...
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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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Dr. Dorj Munkhuu hero of Mongolia

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 19, 2008
Dr. Dorj Munkhuu, a heroine among the Mongolian people, has changed the landscape today for Mongolian women. Mongolia today is facing a new world because of women who step forward. A UNFPA Feb 2008 release. 2:01 min.
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Turkish female lawyer's fight for free speech - 2008

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 19, 2008
A Turkish women attorney has been banned from work and threatened due to her stand on issues that have caused her to fight for human rights in Turkey. Turkish legislators are considering a proposal to soften a controversial law which severely restricts freedom of speech. Turkey has been under pre...
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Everywoman - The veil - 16 May 08 - Part 1

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 18, 2008
In Part Two of Everywoman TV special on the veil we meet an Egyptian girl who has made the decision not to cover up (with the veil). May 16, 2008. 10:53 min.
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Acid Attack - Sudan

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 18, 2008
20 yr. old Sanaa is from Sudan. She was forced into marriage to a man 28 yrs her senior. While in her forced marriage she was severely disfigured after acid was thrown at her face by her brother under her now ex-husband's misleading instruction. Today she constantly hides her terrible face from v...
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Cambodia - Sex Slaves report

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 14, 2008
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...
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My Body My Weapon - Manipur, INDIA

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 10, 2008
Irom Sharmila is a young woman of Manipur, India who has been on a fast-to-death for nearly 7 years now. She has been demanding the removal of a brutal law from her land. Manipur is a north-east Indian state (bordering Myanmar), riven for decades by insurgency and armed separatist movements. The ...
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Salt Harvesters of Ghana

Collected by Women News Network
Added April 28, 2008
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...
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