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I came across Sophie Gerrard’s work a couple of weeks back when the BBC featured her latest piece on the Akhand Jyoti Eye hospital in Bihar. It is beautiful, positive and inspiring. It does not linger on the negative nor over dramatize the issue. Other work, like ‘The Right to Life’ on maternal health in [...]
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The stark reality of birth in remote regions of Nepal. Straight forward, informative, and thought provoking. Good stuff.
Filed under: Video | Tagged: Asia, maternal mortality, Nepal, poverty, South Asia, women | Leave a Comment »
Not quite as good as I had hoped it would be but still worth watching. A little bit too long to be punchy and a little too short to do justice to the complexity of the issue. And despite Media Storms generous array of embeds I’ll be damned if I can get the bloody piece [...]
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During the conflict in Nepal (1996-2006) many people were subjected to enforced disappearances by state security forces or abductions and unlawful killings by members of the Communist Party of Nepal – Maoist (CPN-M). When the peace process began both sides committed to addressing these past abuses. There was much expectation that those responsible for these [...]
Filed under: Campaigning, Multi-media | Tagged: armed conflict, Asia, disappearances, human rights, impunity, Nepal, photographers, South Asia, women | 2 Comments »
Salwa is the image of the first campaign against sexual harassment in Lebanon. The League of Independent Activists – IndyACT has launched this campaign with the aim of combating ‘all forms of sexual harassment, physical and verbal abuse against children, girls, and women’. This is in particular a response to a drastic increase in such [...]
Filed under: Art, Cartoons/Animation, Video | Tagged: immigration, Israel/OPT, Lebanon, Middle East&North Africa, women | Leave a Comment »
For those of you in and around Mumbai next Saturday check out the WAVE screenings from their pan India network of video bloggers. Videos to be screened will include; Weaving Dreams — Padma, a lady of the Bodo community in Assam, changes her community for the better when she started a weaving society, turning away [...]
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Human Rights Watch and Magnum combine to produce ‘In Silence‘, an insight into the death of Kiran Yadav after giving birth to her son in Uttar Pradesh. The project looks to highlight the high number of preventable deaths of women in child birth, particularly in India. The multimedia is nominated for an AOL Webby.
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The documentary film ‘Sari Soliders‘ directed by Julie Bridgham is a compelling account of the lives of six women during political turmoil in Nepal. From diverse backgrounds and ‘sides’ within Nepal’s civil conflict, the film follows them through historic and life changing events. The plan is to hold community screenings across Nepal followed by discussion [...]
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Women Aloud: Video blogging for Empowerment (WAVE) is training young women in India (one per state) to become citizen journalists telling video stories about positive community change for an international audience. The project is managed by the Mumbai based NGO ‘Point of View.’ The criteria for applicants are; 18-25 years old Basic fluency in English [...]
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Although Amnesty International is not renowned for its use of photography their campaign supporting the former sexual slaves of the Japanese Imperial army during World War II is worth looking at. In particular, it is interesting to see how the images were an integral part of a well thought through lobbying strategy, which aimed to [...]
Filed under: Article, Campaigning, Photography | Tagged: Asia, East Asia, impunity, Japan, NGO, photographers, sexual slavery, women | Leave a Comment »
