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Title: Why Women Count: Choosing Life
Outline: Lawyer Marie Vodickova started a network of 20 ‘safe houses’ across the Czech Republic catering for poor and disadvantaged mothers - evicted from their homes, or escaping violent relationships - who might otherwise be forced to give up their children
Year: 2007
Duration: 5'
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Title: Beijing Features: Little By Little
Outline: Focuses on reproductive health as the key factor in both the empowerment of women and sustainable development.
Year: 1995
Duration: 25'
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
Title: Beijing Features: Rights Of Passage
Outline: Tells the very different stories of four teenage girls coming-of-age in India, Jamaica, Nicaragua and Burkina Faso.
Year: 1995
Duration: 27'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Bruno Bozzetto Spots
Outline: Sharp, funny animated morality tales designed to remind audiences that the earth’s resources are far from infinite.
Year: 1996
Duration: 16 x 1'
Language: English
Title: Dead Mums Don't Cry
Outline: Assesses progress on achieving the MDG of cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015, visiting Chad and Honduras.
Year: 2005
Duration: 49'
Language: English
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 I: Rabi
Outline: A modern day fable African fable from Burkina Faso which explores the relationships between a boy and his pet tortoise and his own community.
Year: 1992
Duration: 60’
Language: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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 I: Children's Rights Features
Outline: 11 features on children's rights, with stories from West Africa, Hong Kong, Mongolia, India, Rwanda, Costa Rica, the USA and Egypt.
Year: 1997
Duration: 9 x 6'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report II: Kids Number
Outline: Earth Report looks at the lives of children around the world - the skills they're learning for the future and some of the problems they face.
Year: 1998
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report III: Hope and Despair
Outline: This instalment examines how political and economic changes have affected the lives of women and children throughout the former USSR.
Year: 1999
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report IV: Food Works (Hands On)
Outline: Celebrates some of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) most successful projects.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report IV: Growing Up 2000
Outline: Earth Report began following the lives of ten children who were born in the year of the Rio Earth Summit. In this episode we catch up with Erdo in East Africa and Kay Kay in China who are both eight years old this year.
Year: 2000
Duration: 24'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report VI: Children of Rio 1
Outline: A 2002 update to the Growing Up series which follows children born in nine countries in 1992. This programme revisits the children in Rio de Janeiro, Kenya and India.
Year: 2002
Duration: 27'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report VI: Children of Rio 2
Outline: A 2002 update to the Growing Up series which follows children born in nine countries in 1992. This programme revisits the children in China, South Africa and Great Britain.
Year: 2002
Duration: 27'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report VI: Children of the New Millennium
Outline: Investigates why children suffer disproportionately from pollution and environmental degradation.
Year: 2002
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Earth Report IX: Pipe Dreams
Outline: Sanitation improvement projects in Senegal, Uganda and India aim to provide safe sanitation for all.
Year: 2005
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: From Awareness to Action
Outline: Looks at a UNHCR campaign to eradicate the practice infibulation - the most extreme form of female genital mutilation - being carried out in the Hatashiek refugee camp in the Somali refugee region of Ethiopia.
Year: 1998
Duration: 15'
Language: English
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Broadcasting for Change: Pretty Baby
Outline: Intimate interviews with three young mothers reveal the human stories behind the UK's teenage pregnancy rate, the highest in Europe.
Year: 2000
Duration: 10' 54"
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Broadcasting for Change: Sex With the Angels
Outline: Tourism to the paradise island of the Dominican Republic is increasing. So are the numbers of local girls selling sex for tourist dollars.
Year: 2000
Duration: 14' 15"
Language: English
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Broadcasting for Change: Women Ecologists: Life in Harmony with Nature
Outline: Nagano was pessimistic about the future of human kind and unwilling to have any children, until one-day she met a woman in the Mountains. Now the mother of a five-year old boy the two women meet again to talk about their lives.
Year: 2000
Duration: 10' 54"
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Broadcasting for Change: Women With A Stake In Colombia
Outline: Two remarkable leaders in the Colombian peace movement, both nominated for Nobel Peace Prizes and one only 16 years old, discuss their work, their friendship and their dreams for the future of Colombia and its people.
Year: 2000
Duration: 10' 15"
Title: Growing Up I
Outline: TVE's major series following the lives of 11 children from 10 different countries born in the year of the 1992 UN Earth Summit, children born with equal qualities but in very unequal parts of the world. If the pledges governments signed up to at Rio
Year: 1993
Duration: 60’
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Growing Up II
Outline: Growing Up, a major international co-production, looked at the prospects for eleven babies born within a year of the Earth Summit; Growing Up II is the second installment of what happened to these children and their families
Year: 1996
Duration: 26'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: Habitat Shorts: From Chaos To Hope
Outline: New urban planning initiatives in Dar es Salaam are helping the city to upgrade squatter camps as well as the city centre
Year: 1994
Duration: 15'
Language: English
Title: Habitat Shorts: Waste Not, Want Not
Outline: Waste recycling projects in India and Thailand are helping to create real employment opportunities.
Duration: 15'
Language: English
Title: Life I: A-OK?
Outline: The prospects for two very different Vitamin A distribution programmes in Ghana and Guatemala, and the future of genetically-modified sources of Vitamin A.
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: India Inhales
Outline: Explores the cynicism of the major global tobacco companies' campaigns in India, and the work of the activists who have pledged to try to stop them.
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 II: A Fistful of Rice
Outline: How PEM, or protein energy malnutrition results in an ongoing intergenerational cycle of lost potential, both physical and mental. Filmed in Nepal.
Year: 2001
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Life II: Missing Out
Outline: Looks at iron deficiency anaemia in Niger, one of the world's poorest countries. Are iron tablets a sustainable solution?
Year: 2001
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Life III: Cheated of Childhood
Outline: Looks at the lives of street children in St Petersburg, victims of the economic and social prssures in Russian society in the wake of the fall of communism.
Year: 2002
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Life III: Danger - Children at Work!
Outline: Looks at the dangerous and unrewarding firecracker cottage industry, which employs children as young as six, and projects which aim to encourage alternative livelihoods
Year: 2002
Duration: 27'
Language: English
Title: Life III: Seeing is Believing
Outline: Examines the Zambian sugar fortification project, which hopes to eliminate vitamin A deficiency.
Year: 2002
Duration: 26'
Language: English
Title: Life IV: Between War and Peace
Outline: Highlights Liberia's efforts to move from civil war to stability in a short space of time.
Year: 2004
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Life IV: Holding Our Ground
Outline: Focuses on the development of reproductive rights since the Cairo conference in 1994.
Year: 2004
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Life IV: Listen to the Kids
Outline: Life reports on a Unicef initiative to involve children in decisions that affect, not only their own futures - but those of their families and communities.
Year: 2004
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Life IV: Returning Dreams
Outline: Life returns to Sierra Leone and Liberia, to assess the fate of children caught up in the recent civil war.
Year: 2004
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Life IV: Roma Rights
Outline: Roma communities in Europe have been subjected to centuries of persecution and racism. 'Roma Rights' looks at the hard living conditions but it also examines the richness and energy of Roma culture, especially the music.
Year: 2005
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Life V: Running on Empty
Outline: Highlights the problems of two young mothers living in two very different societies - Wales in the UK, and rural northern Ethiopia..
Year: 2007
Duration: 28'
Title: Life V: School's Out
Outline: Why desperately poor people in Nigeria are choosing to pay for their children to be educated privately.
Year: 2005
Duration: 23'
Language: English
Title: Lifelines
Outline: A series of 12 x 1' 'spots' for cinema and television to illustrate IPPF's Charter on Women's Sexual and Reproductive Rights.
Year: 1998
Duration: 12 x 1'
Language: English, French, Spanish
Title: Paths Out Of Poverty
Outline: Reveals how NGOs around the world are finding ways to eradicate poverty and develop communities.
Year: 1995
Duration: 11'
Language: English
Title: The Preferred Sex... The Desired Number
Outline: In Nigeria some women are honoured for bearing many children, while in India women are driven to suicide for bearing girls, not boys.
Year: 1995
Duration: 54'
Language: English, Spanish
Title: A Question Of Rights: House On Fire
Outline: Jamaica has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the world. This film sets out to discover why, and how best to address the problem.
Language: English, French, Spanish
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: Triumph Over Terror: Discipline with dignity
Outline: An investigation of the growing campaign against violent corporal punishment in Nepalese schools.
Year: 1999
Duration: 30'
Title: Triumph Over Terror: Going home
Outline: A documentary tracing the experiences of African refugees in Guinea Bissau.
Year: 1998
Duration: 30'
Language: English
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: UNICEF Cartoons for Children's Rights
Outline: 66 animated spots based on issues propagating the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Year: 1999
Language: English
Title: Waris Dirie Speaks Out
Outline: Waris Dirie, supermodel turned Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, talks about her work for the UNFPA and her own experiences of this horrific practice.
Year: 1998
Duration: 10'
Language: English
Title: Welcome To Womanhood
Outline: An update on the effect of the UNFPA 'Reach' project against female circumcision in Uganda, first featured in TVE's series 'Not the Numbers Game'.
Year: 1997
Duration: 15'
Language: English
