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For Mother's Day 2008 - Mothers worldwide deserve to have caring midwives present when they give birth. Safe and healthy birth is vital to the health of both mother and child. Legislative programs allowing midwives to practice and to be educated in the process of birth is vital to all women. UNFP...

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.

Child gender issues for China's women have been part of the history of China for some time now. Today things are beginning to change. A 2008 UNFPA production.

Mah-Bibi is a war refugee at the age of ten, is destitute and begs for food to support herself and her younger brothers. This film shows the serious conditions for refugees worldwide and is sponsored by the Women and War Project and the ICRC - The International Committee of the Red Cross.