A series of 32 wide-ranging and powerful programmes moving beyond the jargon of 1995's Beijing International Conference on Women to offer lively, challenging programmes reflecting the lives of women all over the world and their progress towards equality in the year 2000.
TAPE 1
No Safe Place
South Africa
Production Company: Fuzebox Productions
Director/Producer: Kethiwe Ngcobo
No Safe Place exposes the contradictions and sexism in a South African judicial system that protects the rights of violent criminals at the expense of their victims.
Women and Power
Ukraine
Broadcaster: TV Channel Inter
Producer: Tetyana Stolyarova
Ukraine is a country managed by men, but Lyudmila Bezpalko manages a home and the largest pharmaceutical factory in the Ukraine.
Moving On
Republic of Ireland
Broadcaster: RTE
Executive Producer: Neasa Ni Chinneide
Tracing a hidden history of the conflict in Northern Ireland, Moving On tells four stories of determined women who fought for peace.
Women and Work
Mexico
Broadcaster: Once TV
Producer: Maria Eugenia Tames
Mexican women from all walks of life talk about their working lives - their dreams, expectations and, the often very different, reality.
The Invisible Old
United Kingdom
Director/Producer: Sarah Cole
Older women in Britain have been marginalised by a pension system that assumed women would be looked after by their husband. Now, two women speak out about life as a pensioner, living on the bread line in a wealthy country.
Women's Way
Italy
Production Company: Intessa Productions
Producer: Stefania Casini
According to tradition it is the men who cultivate the land in Fayoum, Egypt. But Women's Way introduces some intrepid women who have decided to change the rules and to become independent.
