Documentary on Women, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

You can watch the full 6 hour documentary here:

Independent Television Service
http://itvs.org/films/half-the-sky

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You can watch two 2 hour segments here for the next week, until October 8, 2012

Independent lens
http://video.pbs.org/program/independent-lens/


Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

A four-hour PBS primetime documentary film and national broadcast event inspired by the widely acclaimed book of the same name by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.

The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality — which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds — present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to make a change. All over the world women are seizing this opportunity


(I watched an episode last night on female genital mutilation in Somalia and girls and women sex slaves in India. They feature two native women of both countries who are right there helping to change these things. It was hard to watch, but a great thing to have a documentary to help stop these horrible practices.)