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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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Afro-Bedouin women speak through - The Film Class

Collected by Women News Network
Added July 02, 2008
When the women from the Afro-Bedouin community in the southern region of the Negev Desert, Israel speak out in a journalism training class, a new understanding of the taboos of society emerge. These courageous women report on underreported cases of harsh discrimination inside their world. This sh...
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Highway Courtesans Featurette

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
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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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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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

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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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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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Rwanda Genocide - Women Speak

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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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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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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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Cambodia: CHILD SEX SLAVERY (1of2)

Collected by Women News Network and 1 other person
Added May 14, 2008
When Dalyn was only 12 years old when she was forced to work in a brothel in Phenom Penn. She was tricked and forced into prostitution. Locked in a cage with others underneath the brothel, she was starved, tortured and threatened until she agreed to service clients. 6:30 min. YouTube release Apri...
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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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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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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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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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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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Out from the rubble - China

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 16, 2008
A woman's grace and endurance keeps her alive during a devastating earthquake as she thanks her rescuers in Chengdu, China. A CNN report May 14, 2008. 0.51 min.
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Women - US internment camps 1940s - Masumi Hayashi art memorial

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 13, 2008
When the US interned Japanese women and their familes during World War Two, many women felt betrayed by the country (US) they called home. This film/video shows the artistic work of Masumi Hayashi as she tells the story. 4:27 min. WV Broadcasting 2004 video / youtube release Dec. 20, 2006
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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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Ugandan Fistula Survivor: Federesi's Story

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 05, 2008
Learn from My Story: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda... In August 2007, the ACQUIRE Project partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling and St. Joseph's Hospital in Uganda to coordinate a workshop for Ugandan women who have experienced obstetric fistula. This story recounts the hard...
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Women Farming Nepal - IDRC Nepal

Collected by Women News Network
Added May 03, 2008
Nepal's rural survival depends on agriculture. Often men control the business of agriculture. Even though women are involved from the ground up in food production, they have not been given management power in the agri-field in Nepal. Forestry, wood gathering and sustainability are also important ...
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