videos tagged women's rights news

Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis... Women leaders talk about the building of a global, grassroots, women's rights movement with Women's Learning Partnership (WLP). 2007

Very moving and informative music video about female poverty in Africa.

On November 28, 2007 M.P. Olivia Chow asked the Canadian House of Commons to vote for a motion demanding help for comfort women in Canada. 3:06 min film.

The situation for the Iraqi women has deteriorated gravely since March 2003, with 8 million Iraqis living in desperate need for aid. A humanitarian crisis is at our doors. Hear the honest searing voice of professor Naba S. Hamid, founder of New Horizon for Women - Iraq. Naba Saleem Hamid is a professor of biology at the University of Baghdad. Educated in Iraq and in England, Dr Hamid sees herself as a non-political person who refused to join the Baath Party during the Saddam Hussein regime. She founded

The business of selling people today is active and happening at alarming rates inside the US. Watch this CBS film about women and trafficking. Tracy Smith reports / producer Kim Kennedy. Sept. 12, 2007 release.

Monday, November 13, 2006 FBI frees Mexican child from Forced prostitution in US - Nashville, TN. This ordeal began when sex traffickers promised a girl from Mexico passage across the U.S. border to a "restaurant" job in Nashville. The investigation brought charges against 10 men for running brothels full of Latin American women and girls who were forced into prostitution after they were promised legitimate jobs in the U.S. Two of the people charged with luring these ordinary immigrants into prostitution

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

Fatuma is a woman who escaped the conflict of Darfur. Armed conflict displaces people from their homes and livelihoods. Women often have to cope with the loss of close relatives and find new way to support themselves and their families. The ICRC works to understand the specific needs of women displaced by war, in order to better help them. This is an excerpt from a longer film about eleven women who are all refugees from war.