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Women's voices on Empowerment, Leadership and Technology... ICTs in Afghanistan and Palestine advance women's education. In an interview with the Women's Learning Partnership (WLP), Sakeena Yacoobi of Creating Hope International asserts that access to computers gives children rare educational resources and provides women with a resource center. Vivian Manneh of Palestine's Women's Affairs Technical Committee comments on women's enthusiasm to make use of ICTs. July 2007 2:08 min film.

Egyptian villagers explain why they circumcise their daughters. This is an excerpt from a television program about female circumcision in Egypt, which aired on Al-Mihwar TV on May 10, 2007. About 6,000 girls fall victim to genital mutilation every day, or about 2 million a year. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that between 100 and 140 million women worldwide are circumcised. Most circumcised women live in 28 African countries, as well as in Asia and the Middle East.

This film is about two of the early notable civil rights women - Anna Arnold and Ethel Ray. Both of them struggled through the searing racial discrimination in the US in the early part of the 20th century. In between World Wars, the Harlem renaissance gave rise to a "new kind of Negro." Blacks were taking pride in their brown-faced beauty, and their artistic and intellectual work flooded Manhattan. In the midst of Harlem's vibrant community, Anoka resident Anna Arnold Hedgeman and Duluthian Ethel Ray Nance

In 2000, 189 nations came together and made a promise to eradicate extreme poverty by 2015. Video film by GOOD 2007.