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Voices From Silence

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:42:05 -0700

Running Time: 12 Minutes.

This video produced in collaboration with Sister Witness International and students at the Bard Human Rights clinic features testimonies from survivors of abuse in psychiatric institutions in New York. They testify against the forced medication, physical and sexual abuse, and other methods of negative re-enforcement used in psychiatric health institutions. Their statements show how gender inequality and unfair treatment of mentally ill patients hinder the process of rehabilitation in psychiatric institutions.

Voices From Silence

WITNESS Archive — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:42:05 -0700

Running Time: 12 Minutes.

Word on the Street - interviews with sex workers

SexWorkersProject_NYC — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:03:01 -0700

This series of interviews features sex workers on New York City streets, who spoke to outreach teams about their experiences in sex work.

Transcripts can be read at the Sex Workers Project website (upcoming).

Word on the Street - interviews with sex workers

SexWorkersProject_NYC — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:03:01 -0700

This series of interviews features sex workers on New York City streets, who spoke to outreach teams about their experiences in sex work.

Transcripts can be read at the Sex Workers Project website (upcoming).

Toboho Semela - Interview at the CIVICUS World Assembly

Hub Intern — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:02:08 -0700

This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the CIVICUS World Assembly, 18-21 June 2008, in Glasgow, Scotland.

Teboho Semela talks about her work as a human rights activist and her dedication as an artists.

The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world.

Yunuen Rodriguez, Women & Girls Collective Action Network

msfoundationforwomen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:35:53 -0700

Winner of 2008 Marie C. Wilson Young Woman's Leadership Award, Yunuen Rodriguez is the first youth co-president of the board of Chicago-based Women & Girls CAN and a member of its youth-led initiative, Females United for Action. An advocate for media justice, violence prevention and culture change that respects women and girls, she successfully led negotiations with a Chicago radio station to drop a sexually exploitive ad campaign and testified before the Federal Communications Commission about how women of color are portrayed in the media.

Brenda Dardar Robichaux, the Principal Chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the United Houma Nation Relief Fund

msfoundationforwomen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:29:33 -0700

Winner of 2008 Woman of Vision Award: After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated her tribe in Southeastern Louisiana, displacing more than 6,000 of their 17,000 members, Robichaux quickly mobilized to meet the immediate needs of the Houma Nation and established training in non-traditional jobs for women and leadership programming for girls.

Lucy Félix, Lead Trainer & Community Organizer for Migrant Health Promotion's La Voz Latina

msfoundationforwomen — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:21:50 -0700

Winner of 2008 Woman of Vision Award: In migrant farmworking communities in South Texas, Félix promotes awareness about reproductive health and works with migrant women to advocate for the elimination of barriers to health care, some as basic as transportation.

Skid Row at the DNC

nelsonmadison — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:27:15 -0700

We're going to screen SKID ROW on Sunday, August 24th at Harkins Theater in Denver the day before the Democratic National Convention starts. The National Coalition for the Homeless will have a Voter Registration Booth and we are looking to attract much national press to bring the homeless crisis to the forefront of the election campaign. There are many new stories emerging about middle-class homelessness and we belive that the crisis is worsening with each day the war drags on.

International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

ushrnetwork — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:38:38 -0700

June 26 marks the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The spotlight has been shining for months on U.S. government torture of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention facilities, and these abuses will likely be a major focus of attention on June 26. But the U.S. Human Rights Network and its 255 member organizations have long argued that torture does not begin and end outside U.S.