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Title: Beijing Shorts: Footprints Of Sorrow: Widows Of Guatemala
Outline: In Guatemala, 45000 women widowed as a result of decades of political violence joined forces to campaign against human rights violations.
Year: 1992
Duration: 10'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories I: Life And Debt
Outline: The tortuous links between Brazil’s debt, the devastation of its rainforest and the killing of street kids in Rio de Janeiro
Year: 1992
Duration: 47'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Developing Stories II: Desounen - Dialogue With Death
Outline: This film takes the form of a journey across the Caribbean island of Haiti encountering a population battered but unbowed by years of crushing poverty, political repression and environmental destitution.
Year: 1994
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French
Title: Developing Stories II: Tale Of The Three Lost Jewels
Outline: A magical love story between two adolescents in the Gaza Strip, this revelatory drama looks at childhood in a war zone.
Year: 1994
Duration: 50’
Language: English, French
Title: Earth Report III: Rules Of War
Outline: Half a century after the Geneva Conventions were agreed, this programme examines the relevance of the rules of warfare.
Year: 1999
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report VI: Plumbing the Rights part 2
Outline: Is access to water a human right? According to the United Nations it now is. And yet more than a billion people still go without a safe regular supply.
Year: 2003
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: First Nations First
Outline: Looks at the fundamental questions affecting the survival of indigenous peoples.
Year: 1993
Duration: 21'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Broadcasting for Change: A Break With Tradition
Outline: A picture of the remarkable solidarity between men and women, religious leaders and the faithful, in changing attitudes to FGM (female genital mutilation) in Senegal.
Year: 2000
Duration: 16' 07"
Title: Gene Hunters
Outline: How can the DNA from Amerindians in Colombia and other indigenous peoples around the world help prevent diseases like AIDS and who will benefit?
Year: 1995
Duration: 54'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Hanan Ashrawi
Outline: Profile of Palestinian politician and spokeswoman Hanan Ashrawi - including her first encounters with the PLO.
Year: 1995
Duration: 52'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Life I: All Different, All Equal
Outline: In this programme 'Life' looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women - five years after the Beijing Conference on Women.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: Educating Lucia
Outline: As Africa deals with the devestating impact of AIDS compounded by poverty, few girls are getting an education.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: In the Name of Honour
Outline: Women in Kurdistan are struggling gain basic human rights. In this film we meet four Kurdish women who are leading this struggle.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: The Ongoing Story
Outline: 'Life' revisits some of the stories and issues covered in earlier episodes.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: Regopstaan's Dream
Outline: 'Regopstaan's Dream' follows Dawid Kruiper, a member of the Khomani clan of Bushmen, as he campaigns to make sure the South African government honours its agreement to allow him and his extended family rights to their Kalahari home.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: The Right To Choose
Outline: Life reports on the dissonant voices arguing for a change of the tradition of forced marriage in local cultures, and for reproductive health care and primary education for women.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: The Silver Age
Outline: Advances in science and healthcare meant that more people are living longer. This week's 'Life' programme explores the implications in three very different countries: Japan, India and Tunisia.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: Untouchable?
Outline: Discrimination based on caste membership has been, theoretically, illegal since Indian independence in 1947. But it's still an accepted part of everyday life across the continent.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life I: Without Rights
Outline: This 'Life' episode explores the plight of the 1.3 million Palestinian refugees living under Israeli control, who are denied many basic human rights guaranteed to all people under international laws.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Life V: Srebrenica - Looking for Justice
Outline: Examines the long and painful process of identifying the many thousands of men and boys who were slaughtered in Srebrenica in 1995.
Year: 2005
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Not The Numbers Game
Outline: Six countries, six fascinating films showing the progress made since the 1994 Cairo Conference on Population.
Year: 1996
Duration: 6 x 10'
Language: English
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Title: A Question Of Rights: Young Wives' Tale
Outline: Looks at the physical and emotional damage resulting from early marriage in Ethiopia.
Year: 1997
Duration: 12'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Silent Sentinels - Coward's War
Outline: One in every 236 people in Cambodia is an amputee as a result of landmines - this film examines the issues involved.
Year: 1995
Duration: 53'
Language: English
Title: Testimony
Outline: Annie Lennox meets the Tibetan monk, the Venerable Palden Gyatso. He discusses his imprisonment and torture which lasted 34 years after he was arrested for participating in a non-violent demonstration.
Year: 1998
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Transylvania
Outline: Copsa Mica, the dirtiest town in the former Eastern Bloc was the symbol of Nicoloe Ceausescu's dream of building a greater Romania. Today its legacy is one of toxic pollution and some of the most depressing urban wastelands in Europe.
Year: 1993
Duration: 52’
Language: English
Title: Trinkets And Beads
Outline: The bizarre and disturbing story of the unlikely links between a Texas-based oil company, a missionary and the Ecuadorian Huaorani Indians, now fighting for their land rights.
Year: 1996
Duration: 52'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Triumph Over Terror: In the Name of Safety
Outline: In the Name of Safety exposes the harrowing plight of innocent women and children, jailed allegedly for their own protection in Bangladesh under an archaic law left over from colonial days.
Year: 1998
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Triumph Over Terror: Till death do us part
Outline: In Nigeria, a man cannot die of natural causes. If he is married, his wife must have had a hand in his death. 'Til Death do us Part' shows the infringement of widows' human rights in three different regions of Nigeria.
Year: 1998
Duration: 30'
Language: English
Title: Triumph Over Terror: Where Truth Lies
Outline: A documentary about the attempts of the Mtimkulo family to give evidence to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission against the opposition of the Secret Police.
Year: 1998
Duration: 30'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: We The Peoples
Outline: Made to mark World Environment Day 1994, and its theme of grass-roots participation, this series showcases six inspiring stories of communities mobilizing to protect their environment, resources and livlihoods.
Year: 1995
Duration: 6 x 5’
Language: English
Title: When Good Men Do Nothing
Outline: Good men did nothing to help Rwandans in 1994. Despite repeated warnings and pleas for help from several different sources inside Rwanda, the UN ignored the genocide which took lives five times faster than the Nazis had 50 years before.
Year: 1998
Duration: 40'
Language: English
Title: Why Women Count: Lily Counts
Outline: Lily Thapa was a widow in her early thirties when she first came face-to-face with the brutality traditionally meted out to widows in Nepal, she has now formed a group called Women for Human Rights which campaigns against this.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Mama Bock
Outline: Ute bock is a former social worker who founded the 'Verein Ute Bock' charity in 2002. She helps asylum seekers and refugees get food and shelter when they arrive in Austria.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Why Women Count: Mukhtiar Mai: The Struggle for Justice
Outline: Mukhtiar Mai was gang raped by a group of rival clan members, after her case was made public the Pakistani government paid her compensation which she used to start a school and women's welface centre.
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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