A group of girls determined to receive an education have been scarred for life in southern Afghanistan.
The Pakistani government says that more than 120 girls' schools have been burned down or attacked in the Swat Valley region.
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Stand Up and Take Action - October 17-19 2008
Several interesting items uploaded to the Hub this week! Be sure to check out these three:
Ray Fitzwalter, executive producer of World in Action and author of The Dream that Died - the rise and fall of ITV - talks about his forthcoming book.
Co-produced by the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) and Social Watch Philippines, this video tells the story of a trolley man in Sta....
August, 2008: Bukeni Waruzi, WITNESS Program Coordinator for Africa and the Middle East, traveled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to offer video advocacy training for 20 young human rights activists from Sp...
An interview with Nermine Mohamed Waly from the Euromed Role of Women in Economic Life in Egypt. Nermine was a participant in WITNESS' 2008 Video Advocacy Institute.
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