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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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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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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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Child Brides in Ethiopia

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added April 28, 2008
This Audio Slideshow was aired on NPR's All Things Considered on January 18, 2007 by Brenda Wilson. Big Thanks for NPR and Brenda Wilson for this report.
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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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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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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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Our Common Humanity

Collected by Women News Network
Added February 26, 2008
Narrated by Susan Sarandon. This film was made during an Americans for UNFPA delegation visit to East Africa in August 2005. Directed by Carolyn Chen. 5:52 min.