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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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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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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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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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