Ousted female Afghan lawmaker, Malalai Joya, is fighting to regain her position on Afghanistan parliament.
International Herald Tribune - April 5, 2008 article: http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/05/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Lawmaker-Ousted.php
Video - 1:35 min. ATN TV
New stories of terror are starting to emerge in Kenya, in the wake of the post-election violence that killed more than a thousand people.
During the chaos, women and even children were targeted for rape and sexual assault in the country's slums, refugee camps and even in schools.
It's something a new power-sharing government has pledged to investigate.
Yvonne Ndege has been talking with some of the victims.
Every year American women spend millions of dollars on disposable sanitary wear while many miles away, Zimbabwean women are not as fortunate to such luxury items. Due to the economic crisis in Zimbabwe, post the land reform in 2000, many manufacturers of sanitary products fled the country. As a result, the price of sanitary wear has gone up and millions of Zimbabwean women are forced to replace sanitary napkins with unsanitary alternatives. Apart from serious health issues that can even increase the chan
Navajo women who work in the mines have very specific gender related hardships. This video outlines the conditions. Changing women conference is an anual event giving work reports for Navajo women each year. August 2007 YouTube post. 4:37 min.
A former girl-soldier guerrilla from Columbia (who is hiding her identity), a 15 yr old Columbian girl and a 12 yr old boy share their personal stories of leg amputation from landmine explosions. A May 2007 Cuadro a cuadro Ltda. video production. Excerpt 5:22 min.
Dr. Myriam Conejo Maldonaldo speaks to the issues of health care for women in Imbabura, Ecuador. She also touches on the average Ecuadorian women's feeling about family planning. A UNFPA Jan 2008 release. 2:03 min.
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Rosa Parks asked the important question "Why?" to prejudice in America in the1950s. Her story is a bridge today that gives all people everywhere a chance for greater dignity.
"Against All Odds - Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis"
Conservatives in Morocco accused women's groups of being "against Islam" when groups campaiged for family law reform in the 1990s.
Amina Lemrini, Executive Committee Member of Association Democratique des Femmes du Maroc, speaks with Women's Learning Partnership.
Everywoman TV looks at the growing number of women in the UK murdered in so-called 'honour killings'. We meet Jack and Zena Briggs who went on the run 14 years ago after Zena's family vowed to kill them.
Film 10:22 min. Dec 2007 release.
"Sacrifice" examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abu