The power of empowering women reaches far. Empowering a woman helps the world. Women of the World - is a work in progress using clips from the one hour documentary "Microcredit: The Future of Poverty" and the song "Staralfur" by Sigur Ros. 5:49 min. June 2007.
Why are women better borrowers? Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus tells how he and his colleagues at Grameen Bank came to focus on women as borrowers. 3:44 min film. Jan 2008
Mary Robinson was the first woman president of Ireland 1990-1997 and former UN High Commisioner for Human Rights. As a member of "The Elders", Mary Robinson speaks about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, gender oppression and what we can do to help the world. For more info: http://www.theelders.org/elders/robinson.aspx
Palestinian women recount the stories of the Nakba in their villages. The 1948 Palestinian exodus refers to the refugee flight of Palestinian Arabs before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It is called the Nakba, meaning "disaster," "catastrophe," or "cataclysm," by Palestinians. The United Nations final estimate of the number of Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war was placed at 711,000 in 1951. Today, Palestinian refugees and their descendants are estimated to number over 4 million people. The initial
Poet Alice Walker reads the 1851 speech of abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove,) Novemeber 11, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Two-thirds of the people living on less than a dollar a day are women and two thrids of the world's illiterate are women. Women contribute 2/3 of all the world's working hours and produce hald of the world's food, yet earn 10% of the world's income and less than 1% of the world's property. Sundance Elementary School production. 1:13 min. Feb 19, 2008
Nada Ler Sofronic, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina - August 2007. This video is part of a series of interviews with feminists on secularism, fundamentalism(s) and on women's rights. 11:24 min. A siawi.org production.
"The Mother is the first teacher of compassion," says H.H. the Dalai Lama. Storytellers and mythologists Dr. Marion Woodman, Alice Walker, and Angeles Arrien, link this unique Tibetan story to a much broader perspective of how Mother and The Great Mother Archetype touches all our lives and take us on an inspired hour-long journey into the universal power of mothering. A Frame of Mind Film production. Film excerpt 4:21 min. Feb. 8, 2008 www.womenoftibet.org
Bikkhuni Dhammananda's battle to be accepted as a Thai Buddhist monk. And Amani Zain meets the young british women who want to be fashionable ... and modest. Everywoman TV production. Aljazeera TV. Aug. 28, 2007 11:35 min.
In the fifth year of marking International Day against Female Genital Mutilation, the UN has launched a multi-million dollar program to reduce the practice by 40% over the next seven years. Feb 08, 2008 Everywoman AljazeeraTV report. 11:48 min.