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Women farmers critical roleAn overview of global women and food security. This video focuses on the role women play as providers for the family. This 3:40 min video was uploaded by FAOoftheUN on Aug 6, 2009.
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Women's Land Rights: giving women the opportunity to change the worldIn some parts of the world women are traditionally robbed of their land rights.This video focuses on strengthening property rights for women and girls, who do the vast majority of farming but own only a tiny fraction of the world's land.This 2:00 min video was uploaded by radhafriedman on May 21, 2010.
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Women and WarWar affects women in ways different than men. This video identifies these differences to deliver justice to the millions of women and children affected by war.International criminal courts recognize rape as a crime against humanity, as a tool of torture and as an act of genocide. This 6:00 min video was uploaded by Hope4Tomorrow00 on Jun 10, 2011.
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Infant BridesImages depicting child marriages in Ethiopia by A.Piotrowicz. Voices, screenplay and direction by A.Pizzicato.This video was sponsored by Amnesty International and uploaded by temposospeso on Feb 17, 2011.
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Grandma's Tattoos - Film - Armenian Dark SecretFilmmaker Suzanne Khardalian journeys into her family's history to investigate the terrible truth behind the tattoos on her grandmother's body she would never speak about. In the process the story of Armenian women driven out of Ottoman Turkey during World War II shows reveals the suffering of women under human enslavement. This video is a January 12, 2012 release by Al Jazeera TV production WITNESS.
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Women teachers India create literacy powerWorld Literacy Canada is changing lives in the Uttar Pradesh region. Hindi-language adult Literacy Classes are educating women, families & communities creating a drastic improvement to lives. Many of these women have never received any formal education. Many cannot read, write, nor do simple math. The literacy power given to them by trained local teachers in a woman's house or in an outdoor open space is invaluable and inspiring. A 6:40 min January 19, 2012 video production by World Literacy Canada.
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Women & Egypt's RevolutionBelgian feminist An Van Raemdonck created this video while doing research on Egypt to show what the revolution means to women. How are women activists advancing women's rights in a new Egypt?
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Islamic Feminism - some myth bustingFeminism - is it Islamic and do we need it? A talk challenging the misconceptions, myths and misinformation about Islamic feminism.This 12:00min video was uploaded by Muslimfemiinist on November 16,2011.
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Girls' in the Class - A story of women teachers in NigeriaIn Nigeria an estimated 7 million children of primary school age are out school. The majority of these children are girls. Increasing the number of female teachers in rural schools can lead to an increase in the number of girls enrolled and improve their quality of life. This 3:34 min. video was uploaded by straightlinefilms on Sep 27, 2010.
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A Cure for Poverty! The Girl Effect!A visual description of the possibilities girls starting at age 12 face when growing up in poverty. The video also offers a cure to the downfalls of poverty for young girls. This 3:05 min video was up uploaded by girleffect.
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Global 3000 | India - Vanishing DaughtersAcross southern and eastern Asia,fewer and fewer girls are being born. In India alone,there have been 10 million cases of female foeticide in the past two decades.Most families in India struggle to cover the costs that come with traditions associated with having a daughter,while traditions allow sons to provide financial security for the whole family. This 3:43 video was uploaded by deutschewelleenglish. Sep 22, 2009
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CNN: Activists fight breast ironing tradition - YouTubeIn Cameroon, one in four girls will undergo breast ironing, a painful practice advocates say is motivated by love. This 3:15 min Jul 27, 2011 video was published by CNN.
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Pat Mitchell: Women achieve despite media depictionsPat Mitchell, President (CEO) at the Paley Center for Media in NYC talks about the advances global women have made in the last decade. She also reviews the damage women experience every day as they are depicted by negative images in the media. How can we change the media? This is an excerpt from award winning film "Miss Representation" by filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom: http://missrepresentation.org/
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Climate Change is About Human RightsClimate change is one of the greatest injustices of our time. Although they didn't cause the problem, it is impacting poor people first and worst. Justice demands that developed countries dramatically cut global warming pollution and provide the money and technology for poor countries to cope with the effects of a changing climate. This 2:30 min August 30, 2009 video has been produced by Oxfam New Zealand.
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Lugari women dispel HIV/AIDS mythsA group of women in Lugari, Kenya set out to prove that being HIV positive is no longer the death sentence it was once. This 1:42 min video was upload by NTVKenya on Dec 1, 2010.
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The Current State of Women in Developing Countries.movThis video explores the current state of women in developing countries using facts, figures, and heartbreaking images.This 2:36 min video was uploaded by Shadowhawke27 on May 14, 2010.
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Women, children also part of protests in KashmirWhile the violence may have subsided for the moment the anger remains unabated. Women and children gather to protest in Kashmir. This 2:00 min video was uploaded by ibnlive on Aug 6, 2010.
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Unity in Diversity - Gender EqualityUnity in Diversity by Rebecca Keating, Ruth Keating and Clara Deeney from Loreto Abbey Dalkey. This video is for the development youth prize and is based on the theme of gender inequality.This 2:58 min video was uploaded by loretoabbeydalkey on May 18, 2009.
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UNICEF: Promoting safe sanitation practices in BangladeshAthoi Marma, 19, teaches songs about safe hygiene practices to 20 pre-school children. The songs are in Marma, an indigenous language spoken by only around 150,000 people in Bangladesh.This 1:53 min video was uploaded by unicef on Aug 4, 2008.
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Women feed the world - AsiaWorldwide, women make high contributions to household and national food security. This video explores the critical role played by women in agricultural production in Asia. This 10:49 min video was uploaded by FAOoftheUN on Jul 22, 2011.
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The building blocks to relieving poverty for African womenComfort Addae tells of her idea to relieve poverty for disadvantaged women and girls in Ghana, Africa. Her goal is to inspire women and girls to go out and make their ideas a reality through training and business ownership. This 3:31 min video was uploaded by comfortaddae on Jun 28, 2011.


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