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Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4

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Unreported World ~ Liberia Stolen Childhood 2009 10 16 Channel 4 File Name .............: Unreported World S18E04 - Liberia Stolen Childhood (16 October 2009) 237mb /24:15.000/Xvid Unreported World reveals how Liberia is facing a child rape crisis. Jenny Kleeman reports from Liberia where six years after a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children are still at risk of being attacked. She meeta victims at safe houses and children's hospitals to hear their harrowing stories. With little being done to bring rapists to justice, just how serious is the Liberian government about tackling child rape? Six years after the end of a brutal civil war in which rape was routinely used as a weapon, children still face the daily fear of being attacked, and the West African country's hospitals are overwhelmed with child victims, a quarter of them under four years old. In the Liberian capital, Monrovia, reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Matt Haan meet Mercy, a six-year-old girl who was abducted and raped by a stranger two weeks previously. Mercy is taking a course of drugs to try to stop her from contracting HIV. She lives in a safe house run by a Liberian charity, which is filled with other child rape victims. Edit... The team visits a children's hospital run by the charity Médecins Sans Frontières. Elias Abi-Aad tells Kleeman that his unit saw 771 child rape victims in 2008 and in the first six months of 2009 had already seen 422 victims, but he estimates this is only a small fraction of the total number of cases in Liberia. Victims suffer serious medical problems as a result of their ordeal and the hospital saw three recent cases where children died as a direct consequence of rape. ..... The UN acknowledges there have been problems of sexual abuse and exploitation by peacekeepers in Liberia, including a few that allegedly involve underage girls. They say they take allegations very seriously and have promised to investigate Oretha and Sarah's claims. ... Liberia's civil war has left the country with a culture of impunity, and a culture where men want to have sex with very young girls. Until that changes, Liberia can't escape its tragic past. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-w...s-2009/episode-14 Source: http://www.thebox.bz/details.php?id=95442 Cap: geclipse Other shunster posts at:http://www.bt-chat.com/browse.php?category=11
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Highway Courtesans

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In rural India, 6 years in the life on young Guddi Chauhan are examined, as she struggles against the centuries-old tradition of prostitution she's expected to honor www.imdb.com/title/tt0352402/ linktv stdv xvid rip Highway Courtesans Category: Documentaries Regions: South Asia Topics: Women / Gender / Sexuality, ;;Human Rights What happens when an independent-minded young girl is born into a centuries-old tradition of prostitution? Highway Courtesans chronicles the story of young women living in the Bachara community in rural India - the last hold-out of a custom that started with ancient palace courtesans and survives today with the sanctioned prostitution of every Bachara family’s oldest daughter. Guddi, Shana and their neighbor Sungita serve a daily stream of roadside truckers to support their families. Their work as prostitutes forms the core of the local economy, but their contemporary ideas about freedom of choice, gender and self-determination slowly intrude on the Bachara way of life. Beautifully filmed and remarkably candid, this provocative coming-of-age film follows Guddi Chauhan from age 16 to 23 as she struggles to realize her dreams in a community caught between traditional and contemporary values. LEARN MORE: Visit the film's website, Highway Courtesans. ;; Agenda Magazine on sexual rights in India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highway Courtesans A film by Mystelle Brabbee India/US, 2005, 71 minutes, Color/BW, VHS/DVD, Hindi, Subtitled Order No. W05870 This provocative coming-of-age film chronicles the story of a bold young woman born into the Bachara community in Central India – the last hold-out of a tradition that started with India’s ancient palace courtesans and now survives with the sanctioned prostitution of every Bachara family’s oldest girl. Guddi, Shana and their neighbor Sungita serve a daily stream of roadside truckers to support their families. Their work as prostitutes forms the core of the local economy, but their contemporary ideas about freedom of choice, gender and self-determination slowly intrude on the Bachara way of life. HIGHWAY COURTESANS follows Guddi from the ages of 16 through 23 as she turns her world upside down, incurring the wrath of her fathers and brother as she struggles with tradition, family and love in hopes of realizing her dreams. In probing beyond the surface of a world of paradoxes, HIGHWAY COURTESANS resists easy moralizing and reveals the very real costs – financial, social and personal – for breaking with tradition. As a community hangs in the balance between traditional and contemporary values, this gripping documentary raises universal questions about sex, the roles of women, and the right of one culture to judge another. AWARDS, FESTIVALS, & SCREENINGS Galway Film Fleadh, Best Feature Documentary Chicago Int'l FF, President's Jury Award Singapore International Film Festival IFP Market Best of Fest, Berlinale Market Indo-American Art Council Film Festival Hamptons International Film Festival South by Southwest Film Festival, US Premiere IDFA, Int'l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, World Premiere International Women's Film Festival Asian American International Film Festival Seattle Independent So. Asian Film Festival Jakarta International Film Festival "Stranger than Fiction", IFC Center Nashville Film Festival Belgrade Film Festival Adelaide Film Festival Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Cardiff Screen Festival Tekfestival 2005, Rome Jackson Hole Film Festival Jerusalem International Film Festival Mill Valley Film Festival Bermuda International Film Festival Atlanta Film Festival Kino Movie Eye Film Festival Seattle Documentary Film Festival Rio De Janiero Film Festival Hawaii International Film Festival Zagreb Film Festival Denver International Film Festival Women's Film Festival in Seoul QUOTES "Timeless in its observations" Jeanette Catsoulis The New York Times, Critic's Pick "Candid interviews with the subjects are impressive." Erin Clements Time Out New York "Extraordinary documentary... fair-minded portraits" Andrew O'Hehi Salon.com "Far from the altogether downbeat experience you'd expect." Jay Carr AM New York "Compelling and illuminating" Avi Offer Nycmovieguru.com "Courtesans' poignant, provocative...Brabbee's view is respectful. Despite the girls' nearly hopeless situation, she portrays them as hopeful, strong and surprisingly optimistic...." Rachel Mehendale The Daily Texan "15 films to watch from IDFA 2004...” Eugene Hernandez indieWIRE ”The prostitutes of Mystelle Brabbée's Highway Courtesans hold the audience enchanted with their strong characters and beautiful souls in the face of unfortunate circumstances...” Mark Fagan Austin Chronicle "****(four stars)…[a] thoughtful and sure-handed documentary... We follow Guddi for several years and learn about life in "the profession" and the extraordinary challenges she faces in leaving it… Finding ways to be ordinary in their world must take extraordinary courage." Sarah Lindner Austin American-Statesman “Intriguing subject and revealing interviews…” Joe Leydon Variety "****(4 stars) Critics' Choice. Recommended" Chicago Reader "ABSORBING, touching and sometimes enraging." Chicago Tribune "* * * (3 stars) " Chicago Sun Times "…an incisive examination of a prostitution caste in India...." Galway News "... a remarkable piece of ethnographic work.” Michael Rabiger Author of Directing the Documentary “Brabbee's intelligent documentary…represent(s) the latest achievements in Asian and Asian American filmmaking.” Asiance Magazine “Highly Recommended...Excellent…Uniquely presents the clash among the strong roots of family tradition, the social problems of prostitution, and the issues surrounding modernization of the Indian society.” Educational Media Reviews Online
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Aljazeera - War on Gaza - Day-12 - Gaza Refugees

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Al Jazeera Gaza Refugees Date: 01/07/2009 | War on Gaza: Day 12 Video Description * Refugees living in bad conditions. * Makeshift refugee camps. * Young women with infant crying. * Young women shouting and weeping. * Bad living conditions. * Man drinking dirty water in makeshift camp. * Young girl crying. * Man shouting about the conditions. * Shireen Tadros PTC
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Sacrifice- Child Prostitutes from Burma

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Sacrifice Category: Documentaries Regions: South Asia Topics: Human Rights, Political Institutions / Systems, Music / Art / Culture, Women / Gender / Sexuality Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of families, leaving families with no means of livelihood. An offer of employment in Thailand is a rare chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. Sacrifice examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand. It is the story of the valuation and sale of human beings, and the efforts of teenage girls to survive a personal crisis born of economic and political repression. LEARN MORE: To purchase this film or to view a clip from it, visit Bruno Films. GET INFORMED! GET INVOLVED! Learn more about organizations working against human trafficking: Child Wise HumanTrafficking.org UNIFEM Singapore AWARDS Gold Apple National Educational Film Festival Grand Prize Religion Today Film Festival, Italy Golden Spire Award San Francisco International Film Festival Documentary Film Competition Sundance Film Festival Jury Award Charlotte Film Festival REVIEWS "Sacrifice counterpoints forthright tales of four young prostitutes with mesmerizing images: a woman standing in a door frame awaiting her fate juxtaposed with farmers cultivating the fields. The images make a poignant plea for survival, both of the exiled women and the tormented land." — Andrea Alsberg, Sundance Film Festival "Sacrifice offers a view of the terrible odds faced by women born into poverty where the only commodity for sale are their bodies. These are complicated stories that get beneath tabloid headlines to capture, with great visual invention, the dignity and damaged nobility of young Burmese victims. The lives of these women are revealed to be the stuff of fairy tale… the magic goes bad and the witch, the ogre, and the monster win the day in this chilling view of sexual exploitation…one we have never seen before." — B. Ruby Rich, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Compelling interviews and beautiful photography create a complex portrait of economic conditions in Burma, and the impact this has on families, rural villages and the young women themselves." — San Francisco International Film Festival " Unflinching in its account of abuse and corruption, SACRIFICE derives much of its power from the testimonies of four girls, who speak directly to viewers with a painful directness beyond their young years. Bruno demonstrates an exceptional knack for conveying the complex facts and emotional upheaval of globally relevant true stories. In the sobering yet poetic Sacrifice, Bruno presents the terribly moving first-person accounts of four young girls from Burma who were virtually kidnapped from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution in Thailand. As with all her films. Bruno approaches difficult issues with the intent of uncovering hard truths and giving voice to people who are too often marginalized or misrepresented by mainstream media." — Steven Jenkins, FILM/TAPE WORLD "Sacrifice illuminates a difficult subject of major social consequence with integrity and objective attachment. Told with delicate simplicity, Sacrifice paints a picture of an unfamiliar reality that is, by turns, unbelievably ugly and startlingly beautiful. The heartbreakingly eloquent words of the girls leads viewer into a society whose more are almost completely alien to our own." — Laurence Vittes, The Hollywood Reporter sdtv xvid
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LinkTV Cinemondo, Waiting for Happiness (2002)

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LinkTV Cinemondo, Waiting for Happiness (2002) sdtv rip, divx, english sub Original seed: superseeded, if you don't pass the piece, you won't get next piece..allow enough upload to speed this torrent up and let's move on! Titles known as: Heremakono (2002) En attendant le bonheur (France) Waiting for Happiness (International: English title) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Happiness http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308363/ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10002025-waiting_for_happiness/ http://www.seattlefilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=21588&fid=32 Waiting for Happiness Category: World Cinema: Cinemondo Regions: Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa Topics: Race / Ethnicity / Ethnic Conflict Mauritania, 100 minutes Dir: Abderrahmane Sissako (Life on Earth) ;; Official Selection — New York, Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals Winner — FIPRESCI PRIZE, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival ;; Master filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako unveils a new vision of Africa with this luxuriously rhythmic, carefully observed film. Nouadhibou is a small seaside village on the Mauritanian coast, and amongst its white-washed buildings and melodic songs passed down through generations, lives intertwine while waiting for a hypothetical happiness. ;; After a long absence, the seventeen-year-old Abdallah visits his mother before emigrating to Europe. Unable to speak the local language, the melancholic young man finds himself a stranger in his own country. Traditional, colorful fabrics interest him much less than the latest European trends, and though he shies away from village customs and festivities, Abdallah watches this touching, foreign universe unfold around him with sheer sensitivity. ;; This film features an introduction with writer/director, Abderrahmane Sissako, hosted by Peter Scarlet, and a 9-minuate post show wrap up where Sissako discusses Waiting for Happiness and his latest film, Bamako. ;; The Court was selected for this year's New York Film Festival and was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ;; “Waiting for Happiness is Mr. Sissako’s nod to a small hamlet’s ability — no, its need — to greet encroaching advancement with a shrug…We can only guess that Mr. Sissako is also using the movie as a way of dealing with the possibility that he’s being hailed as Africa’s next big thing. It’s a momentous responsibility to shoulder, and like Abdallah, the director is still in the process of establishing who he is.” — Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times ;; To learn more, or to purchase this program, visit New Yorker Films. ;; ;; About Cinemondo This film is part of Link TV’s world cinema series Cinemondo, premiering entertaining and award-winning foreign films from some of the world’s most talented directors. Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Starring: Katra Ould Abder Kader, Matta Ould Mohamed Abeid, Nana Diakité Mauritania-born Director Abderrahmane has been hailed as African cinema's next big thing. Whether that translates into wide viewership is another story, considering his film opened in London last week without the attention it deserved. Not that his melancholy, poetic, ethereal Waiting for Happiness arrived in town like a circus, Kill Bill-style. Instead it arrived in a big, cynical city like London like the protagonist of the film: timid, displaced and not speaking quite the same language. In Waiting for Happiness, seventeen-year-old Abdallah visits his native village before he sets off to Europe. This event serves as the pretext for the film's exquisite visual tapestry and equally entrancing soundtrack, although Sissako avoids dwelling on it too much. Abdallah feels estranged from the place, not being able to speak the local dialect, and spends his time observing the timeless pace of the city through the frames of his mother's house in this desert-like, windswept north-western part of Africa. The story in the film resonates with the probable trajectory the film will have on the commercial circuit, despite having won the International Critics' Prize in Cannes 2002. Like a precious stone, those who will love it will have to do a considerable amount of digging just to find it. It's difficult to recommend a film like this in the context of the story itself. We have to take Abdallah's point of view and simply observe the townsfolk's lives unravelling. We see a young girl being coached to sing traditional Arab music; a local handy man (Maata) trying to connect electricity to a house, with little success. He is helped by Khatra, a boy of six or seven, who helps Maata on his errands while infusing the film with a charm and humour that comes from his dream of owning a blue overall (a dream that we eventually see coming true). We also meet Nana, a beautiful woman who is going through a melancholy phase inb her life, signified by frequent flashbacks to a romantic trip to Europe. Then there's a Chinese man who is fond of karaoke, Abdallah's mother and a roster of other fleeting characters which stock the film with faces while the ambiance, the mood and the general pace of the film does the rest. Redolent of Italian Neo-realism, Waiting for Happiness completely goes against the grain of both contemporary mainstream and independent cinema. Subtle and philosophical, it requires poetic language to describe it. Like a lullaby wafting across the hazy afternoon of the metaphysical landscape it contains and is contained by, it takes the viewer to a universe that is timeless – perhaps the only temporal signifiers are the tacky gadgets the Chinese men sells, the old cars, the electricity. But it doesn't seem like the director is concerned in showing a place that has resisted the encroachment of globalisation, or any other political issues for that matter – this is not a topical film. Rather it's a director's poetic gaze at people he knows and a place with which he is emotionally connected. ;; ;;
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Unreported World - India Land of Missing Children

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Unreported World Sat 11th June India:land of Missing Children Channel 4 6.00pm-6.30 Foreign affairs documentary series. Sam Kiley investigates children trafficking in India, going from the hill-town of Siliguri where girls are sold or kidnapped into prostitution, to Calcutta, where he faces the sex workers union, to Bombay where he accompanies a police raid to free young girls, hidden in concealed attic holes Filesize:215MB Time:00:23:52 MP3:128kbps Res:624x320 DivX:1,119kbps
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PBS NOW - 2006.04.14 - South Dakota Abortion Ban (TVRip.SoS)

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This Weeks Show: No Right to Choose ? South Dakotas has signed into law the countrys most restrictive abortion ban, outlawing abortions in almost all cases, including rape, incest and to protect the mothers health, in a blatant violation of Supreme Court rulings. NOW examines how anti-abortion activists in the state are not only working to overturn Roe v. Wade but also to promote abstinence-only education for young people and limit the availability of contraception. "Theres been a lot of emphasis on the part of the right-to-lifers on what they call the traumatic aspects of abortion and I think, over time, this has created a higher degree of anxiety in our patients," Sarah Stoesz, head of Planned Parenthood in Minnesota and the Dakotas told NOW. Stoesz has vowed to keep open the states only abortion clinic - which flies in doctors from Minnesota to perform the procedure - despite the ban. South Dakotas Alpha Center, headed by Leslee Unruh, is one of dozen clinics across the state that provides what they call post abortion counseling. "There is no freedom after abortion. You carry an empty crib in your heart forever," Unruh said. One of the centers clients, a young woman named Carrie, attributed her stress to the abortion she had when she was 21. She is now married and the mother of three children. "Taking a life is considered murder sometimes I think I should take myself down to jail," Carrie said. NOW attended the Alpha Centers Purity Ball in which young girls in South Dakota pledge their chastity to their fathers in an effort to abstain from pre-marital sex. In an age where the lines of politics, personal ethics, and religion are blurred, NOW asks the question: When is it appropriate for personal morality to become government policy? more info: http://www.pbs.org/now/ == runtime = 25mins xvid.640x480.854kbps.mp3.103.vbr Federal funding for CPB/PBS is going to be cut significantly over the next two years, so if you watch any of these programs, please support your local PBS Station by making a contribution or by purchasing their DVDs. To help speed up future releases, please try to seed this torrent as much as possible. Thanks. == SoS = http://www.sonofshun.com/forums ------------ Content Type: [Documentary] [News] [Talk]
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