Women's rights

Cheerful

Submitted by Audrey on Tue, 08/24/2010 - 07:04.
I speak: 
English

Location(s)

Australia
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I am hard working and very determined. I enjoy keeping myself busy and put extra effort in my tasks. I love listening music and social networking and cooking.

PWDs Troop to the Office of the Commission on Human Rights to File Complaints

Submitted by Mirana on Tue, 08/10/2010 - 23:01.
I speak: 
Filipino, English

Location(s)

Philippines
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I am an indie advocacy filmmaker with interest on subjects centering on special children and persons with disability.

Mr. Rob Baiton

Submitted by robbaiton on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 10:59.
I speak: 
English / Indonesian
I work at: 
School

Location(s)

Australia

EMPOWERING RURAL INDIA'S GIRL-CHILD

Submitted by VenusinNYC on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 14:48.
I speak: 
Child Marriages
I work at: 
GCDF Inc.

Location(s)

United States
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As a veteran filmmaker from India residing in New York for a quarter-of-a-century, I experienced my first "cultural shock" that most foreign overseas social workers in India undergo. A five weeks assignment with SFF/IRRAD as PR/Media and Fundraising Consultant, I visited some of the poorest of poor villages in Mewat district, Haryana State, and eye-witnessed the surge of "child marriages" in rural India. Following R & D My report that this violation is wide-spread across the country in both Hindu and Muslim families in the poorest of poor environments. No wonder the family planning campaigns since the mid-60s, 70s, 80s abd 90s failed, when over 70% of the population live in rural India, illiterate, poverty-stricked and starving (earning $1 to $5 a day) ! Produced a short 4 min. 4 sec. video clip titled: EMPOWERING RURAL INDIA's GIRL CHILD that can be seen on www.vimeo.com/12770343. Solutions to the problem will mean producing a dramatic Bollywood film with major movie stars like Sabana Azmi and Jaya Bachchan in roles of uneducated mothers and grandmothers who are the main people that permit "child marriages" as a matter of cultural traditions - involving religious implications. They are the ones that must be educated to change and transform through India's Bollywood films. It is the older conservative generation that is holding modern India at the roots ... refusing cultural changes towards the younger generations' progress ...