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Women, War & Peace would also like to recognize fellow organizations committed to supporting women’s social, political and economic empowerment, and making international peace and justice possible.
WOMEN’S SOCIAL, POLITICAL & ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT
CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. They place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty.
The Global Fund for Women plays a leading role in advancing women’s rights by making grants that support and strengthen women’s groups around the world.
UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, is part of the UN reform agenda to bring together resources and mandates for greater impact on gender equality and the empowerment of women.
US National Committee of UN Women
The US National Committee (USNC) for UN Women is an independent non-profit, 501c3 organization that supports the mission of UN Women and social, political, and economic equality for women and girls around the world.
Vital Voices Global Partnership
Vital Voices Global Partnership identifies, invests in and brings visibility to extraordinary women around the world by unleashing their leadership potential to transform lives and accelerate peace and prosperity in their communities.
WIPSEN-A
The Women Peace and Security Network Africa was established as a women-focused, women-led Pan-African Non-Governmental Organization with the core mandate to promote women’s strategic participation and leadership in peace and security governance in Africa.
Women for Women International
Women for Women International provides women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies. We’re changing the world one woman at a time.
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
WILPF works through peaceful means to achieve world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, ensuring peace, freedom, and justice for all.
The Women’s Refugee Commission advocates for laws, policies and programs to improve the lives and protect the rights of refugee and internally displaced women, children and young people, including those seeking asylum—bringing about lasting, measurable change.
World YWCA
The World Young Women’s Christian Association (World YWCA) is a global network of women leading social and economic change in 125 countries worldwide.
YWCA is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
16 Days to End Violence
The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is an annual international campaign to raise awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue at the local, national, regional and international levels.
Futures Without Violence
Everyone has the right to live free of violence. Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.
Man Up
Man Up Campaign is individuals and organizations committed to stopping violence against women and girls.
Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women
Say NO – UNiTE to End Violence against Women is a social mobilization platform focused on ending violence against women and girls, contributing to the UN Secretary General’s campaign, UNiTE to End Violence against Women.
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
Afghan Institute of Learning
The Afghan Institute of Learning is committed to bringing peace and dignity to Afghan people as they struggle to overcome poverty, oppression, devastation, and injustice.
Afghan Women’s Network
Afghan Womens’ Network is a non-partisan, non-profit network of women and women’s NGOs working to empower Afghan women and ensure their equal participation in Afghan society.
BOSFAM
BOSFAM, or the Bosnian Family Association, is a Bosnian nongovernmental organization focused on providing assistance to overcome suffering, misery, poverty.
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS FOR PEACE & JUSTICE
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in more than 150 countries and territories who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights.
Latin American Working Group
The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) leads one of the nation’s longest-standing coalitions dedicated to foreign policy. LAWG strives to influence U.S. policies towards Latin America and promote human rights, justice, peace and sustainable development throughout the region.
International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.
Mercy Corps International
Mercy Corps International is focused on alleviating suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
Oxfam International
Working with with thousands of local partner organizations, Oxfam International works with people living in poverty striving to exercise their human rights, assert their dignity as full citizens and take control of their lives.
Peace Corps
The Peace Corps enables US citizens to serve their country in the name of peace by living and working in developing countries.
Peace Direct
Peace direct locates peacebuilders around the world, funds their programmes to increase their impact, and promotes their work to those in the wider world who can help with finance and influence.
PeaceJam
PeaceJam is dedicated to creating young leaders committed to positive change in themselves, their communities and the world through the inspiration of Nobel Peace Laureates who pass on the spirit, skills, and wisdom they embody.
Religions for Peace
Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace.
U.S. Institute of Peace
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) Center for Gender and Peacebuilding informs and expands understanding about gender impacts in conflict situations; contributes to policy change through analytical and practitioner work; and enhances the role of women in peacebuilding through education and training.
Please note, Women, War & Peace co-producers THIRTEEN and Fork Films do not certify the following organizations’ use or allocation of funds. We believe supporting NGOs, charities and relief organizations is a personal decision made after researching various organizations and opportunities. The following list is brief overview of potentially helpful resources.
PODCAST
The Women, War & Peace podcast series features interviews with Gloria Steinem, Sheryl WuDunn, Mona Eltahawy, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, and many more.
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I was,nt in a war zone but was in the US ARMY and was molested/raped by a drill sergeant as I was going thru boot camp. I wanted to be a good soldier. This is very interesting to me and would to hear more about it
I’m sorry to hear that Carri. I hope you will tune in to watch the series. Given your personal experiences, I believe these stories will be both resonant and uplifting for you.
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Saw Abby Disney’s presentation at the Social Good Summit yesterday, and was very moved by her and “Women, War & Peace” and look forward to helping to spread the word!
I got a email from a website about girls Senegal who have their their families butchered their are scames but i had to go to anextent to to talk with one over the phone. Are these girls not slaves. I would like to investigate more as a jurnalist.
I’ve had a pleasure to see Mrs. Disney present in June, in Sarajevo at conference “Picturing Moral Courage: Stories of Survival”, where the “Pray the Devil back to Hell” was also shown. She made quite an impact. I would like to organize a screening of that movie and this series at my university. Would that be a possibility?
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Thank you for your swift reply. I am looking forward to the opportunity and bookmarking the page as we speak.
sir help for the loralai Balorhistan water.
The war on women and their reproductive rights must come to an end! There was always an inherent sexism found in organized religion, and it was because of clergymen (priests, pastors) that the ERA was never ratified. It is now the Tea Baggers in Congress that are taking aim at Planned Parenthood in addition to PBS and NPR. If there is one institution that should lose its federal funding/tax-exempt status in the United States, it is organized religion without a doubt!
Paul Haider, Chicago
Recently, we had a priest come to our church to serve Mass. He was from the Congo in Africa. He told us of the atrocities done to women and children, and the 250,000 people killed there.
This is over the mining of minerals to make computers, cell phones, ipods, etc…. He told us, if they talk about it at their churches, there are guerilla warfare men waiting to kill them as they leave church. One thing we can do, is to not buy the next updated piece of computer equipment each time it comes out. I feel so frustrated for these women, children, families, I wish I could go there and help. That is not a reality. What else can we do, can I do to stop these atrocities?
Hi Cathy,
We appreciate your concern, and we feel the same way. On the page above you will find a list of several organizations committed to making the world a more peaceful, safe and equitable place. I encourage you to look at some of those websites, and also, to visit our partners page for a list of other relevant organizations: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/women-war-and-peace/about/our-partners/
Best,
Rosie
Please look up THP.org also-(The Hunger Project), which aims to stop, prevent, the subjugation of women and children around the world, amongst many other things.It is a highly effective organisation.
The website is excellent.
I would like to receive your newsletter. I only saw the last 15 minutes of the program and I would like to know more about these brave women. It sounds as if there is still a lot of hatred in Foca; especially among the women.
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Women’s Fraility
The perversity of a Lie
By
Joshua P. Chowritmootoo
Of what woman is fraility
When nine months growth
You nestled and firmed
She your life’s frame mould,
And in age of reason
And you a human season
Deemed her an inferiority?
Of what woman’s fraility
You suckled and head
upon her breast rest
as she plies her life support
and nurture bear
your incipient care?
Of what is fragility
When all through bigoted conformity
Fears your life she endears
And smothered with care,
And times of despair she nestled
Your being, and her person
She deprived self welfare?
Of what woman is inferior
When your insatiate lust
She instruments your thirst
And with crumpled satisfaction
Now you lay at her lap’s discretion?
What of woman is inferior
When bereft of father
In manly neglect
or activities circumspect
she matriarchal tends
needs of life and not waver?
What of woman is inferior
When all heights she has conquer,
Physical, intellectual she is equal
Emotional and spiritual she is superior?
The bigotry must now be done
And religions must resolve
To support that none.
The time has come
When humankind all
Must womankind install
Their place rightful and equal.
I just watched “Pray The Devil Back To Hell” and was so moved by the strength, perseverance and beautiful audacity of these brave women of varying tribes and multiple faiths. Thank you so much for bringing us their story. I look forward to seeing the other installments in this series.
I wrote a song called the “The Tide” about coming together for economic justice, of strength in unity and speaking truth to power. Click the link under the video to sign the Global Labor Treaty petition to the U.N. to protect world workers and enact Universal Living Wages. World Peace through Economic Justice!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Rm9uX9sPA
I am so excited to be alive at a time when women are being recognized for their power to bring about change !
It has been said that women are the backbone of society. This series demonstrates this beautifully!
I am convinced that once all of the women have equal rights, there will be fewer wars and less bloodshed, because no woman wants to have her son (or daughter) killed in combat. Also, it has always been men who instigated wars and other acts of violence.
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I was just apprised of the series and am humbled to my core. The plights of women have been covered for so long as something that simply is and we have all been looked upon to only survive and continue. This is a wonderful endeavor of yours for our children – our daughters of our souls, our blood, our survival. Thank you from the bottom of my recovering heart, the one who knew as a small womanchild that something was very wrong with the way females were maltreated and for how long it has gone on and who knew in her young age it had just begun and needed to be stopped. We ALL thank you for making all corners of this universe aware of the fact that this is the time of Woman – we are the ones to save it all – we have always been!!!!!!! My sincerest thanks, eli
THANK YOU PBS for your investigative reports and documentaries about dire and crucial issues taking place around the world and that our American media and government will prefer we won’t notice. In the case of Colombia as well as in Mexico, the U.S. gov. got involved and made things worse with the so called “plan Colombia” and “plan Merida”; and while the U.S. “congratulates” these presidents for their “success”; the reality is terrible and quite different.
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La noi in Romania exista o vorba din batrani ;pe femei sa nu le atingi nici cu o floare!Raman surprinsa ca in lume exista oameni care fara nici un scrupul au actiuni inumane asupra femeilor.
can you imagine an entire planet of empowered women? it’s way past time. thank you for this initiative. i add my support wholeheartedly!!
This is the second one of these shows i caught on PBS and i am so heart filled and humbled by these strong women making a difference. I have few years ago approached the idea of joining the Peace Corp and circumstances inabled me to do so ..I would love to find out about a way to work in any form with the women on making a difference within these places im at a time in my life i am able to do so and I am a rape survivor and feel i could make a difference also ….if any one can steer me in the right direction of organizations that can use me i would truly appreciate…it would be a blessing for me…Carol Belton…boniquapinky@yahoo.com
Thank you for opening my eyes.
I am convinced that once all of the women have equal right
We need to connect and hold hands across the whole world to be herd, and fight for peace and justice for all mankind…
I am going to share this page on Facebook with friends, this will help keep the voices of many Woman herd
and a good start for me to get others involved as well…
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We as women need to stick together and let the people know we too are a living life and do not deserve this treatment from no one not even man.We have rights too and we need to have them enforced.After all God created both man and Woman not just man.
IN MEDIA RES
WINTER 2011
CALL FOR CURATORS
Filmmaker as Activist:
Engaging Audiences and Building Community –
January 23 – 27, 2011
CALL: Documentary filmmakers have a long history of bringing social and political issues to light but in recent years an audience engagement strategy has become a commonplace feature of documentary filmmaking. Today’s filmmakers are moving beyond audience awareness and asking for participation. In this week of In Media Res, we invite you to discuss activism and documentary media practice. What are the strategies of engagement? What are the stakes? What constitutes successful community building? What are the pitfalls? How are audiences participating? What does this mean for the media maker? The topic is wide open and we hope for a lively discussion.
Proposals may be brief, but do be sure to describe the topic and key question(s) to be explored. Please submit your proposal by December 19. If interested, please contact In Media Res (inmediares.gsu@gmail.com) with topic proposals or for more information about the theme. Be sure to include the name of the theme week you would like to be involved with in the subject line of the email.
Academics, journalists, critics, media professionals and fans are all welcome to submit proposals.
The actual piece will include either a 30-second to 3-minute clip, an image, or a slideshow that will be accompanied by a 300 to 350 word response to/contextualization of your clip, image, or slideshow. In addition to the your piece, you will be expected to engage the other pieces presented that week to encourage discussion and further flesh out the individual topic in relation to the week’s theme.