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PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION (PDHRE) Women Hold Up The Sky
A dramatic video series: Includes a manual: "Between their stories and
our realities..."
is introducing for use in your communities
in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of "CEDAW":
Eight short training videos for learning about CEDAW
and its relevance to women's daily lives.
Series
Content
How to use the Video and the Manual
An integral part of the series for seminars & workshops on CEDAW
The video series and the manual are available in English, French, and
Spanish. Cost of the video and manual, per language: $35.00 includes shipping
costs. Alternately you can download the manual and videos from the links
below.
Free copies are available for organizations and communities in developing
countries.
The CEDAW
Training Video Series
A compelling
series of 8 short film training videos on women's human rights. Together
with the manual the eight short films bring the Convention on the Elimination
of Discrimination Against Women "CEDAW" alive for women and men around
the world. These engaging true stories are rendered in short narrative
dramas which capture and celebrate the complexity, strength and vibrant
determination of women living in a globalized, patriarchal world.
The series
is the fruition of a first-ever solidarity effort by human rights educators
and filmmakers in the US, Latin America and Africa. Four NGO's acted
as producers: Instituto de Genero, Derecho y Desarrollo, Rosario, Argentina;
NGO Resource Center, Zanzibar, Tanzania; TOSTAN of Senegal and PDHRE.
The Dramas
were based on actual life stories selected from around the world and
filmed in four countries. The specific drama does not necessarily depict
a situation in a specific country but is used to demonstrate a universal
phenomena: the effects of Patriarchy on women and girls.
The manual
was prepared as a set of guidelines for the training of trainers to
adopt to their own national and local needs, and to introduce CEDAW
across their societies. Even though the video series and the Manual
are about CEDAW, the producers of the series feel they can be used as
excellent education tools for learning about the human rights framework
from a gender perspective as it relates to all people's daily lives.
Personal Memo from Shulamith Koenig - How to use the Video and the
Manual
Each one of the eight Videos Dramas are separate from the other. Because
we have put a lot of thought into how these videos may best be used
we offer the following suggestions:
We also suggest that you surf through this website to find additional
more interesting materials such as our recent Passport for Dignity,
and Call for Justice.
Please send us your feedback so that we too can learn how to improve
our training materials.
Shula To order contact:
PDHRE
Series Content
Women Hold Up The Sky includes, eight dramatic training modules
to be used separately during the training.
You can watch the videos streamed straight off the internet, by clicking
on the play button on the left of each video and you can watch it full
screen by clicking on the icon that looks like a TV. Alternately, you
may want to download the videos to your computer for playback at a later
time. You can do this by clicking the "Download video" link for each
video. Each video is quite large (>100MB) and may take some time to
download. It will download as an "FLV" file, which can be played by
Real Player. You can download Real Player from www.real.com
and follow the link to "Free Download".
"5 PESOS"
"HEROISME AU QUOTIDIEN"
"OTRA MIRADA" - Another
Approach-
"YALIVIO" -Price of
a Women
"FIRE CODE"
"COTIDAINO" - Daily
Lives
"WOMEN HOLD UP THE SKY"
. "SAFARI"
"Between Their Stories and Our Realities"
available in French, English and Spanish.
The manual was prepared as a guideline
for the training of trainers who are expected to adopt it to their own
national and local needs and introduce CEDAW across their societies,
with a special emphasis on the community level.
The Series and the Manual were produced with the support of the Austrian
Government and the Vienna Institute for Development and Cooperation,
VIDC in collaboration with women human rights groups and film makers
in Rosario, Argentina; New York, USA; Thies, Senegal and Zanzibar, Tanzania
For
more information, please contact PDHRE:
The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) / NY Office
We believe that these materials can be used at all levels of society with
women and men alike as well as with your government officials, judges,
the police and more. All countries that have ratified CEDAW and all those
countries in the process of ratification can learn how to claim human
rights by using the human rights language and taking actions to change
laws, policies resource and relationships in the community.
PDHRE
526 West 111Th St., Suite 4E
New York, NY 10025, USA
Tel: 1-212-749-3156
Fax: 1-212-666-6325
email: pdhre@igc.org
-original in Spanish. Filmed in Rosario, Argentina.
for developing discussions mainly on CEDAW articles: 5: Sex Rolls
and Stereotypes and Article 10: Education.
-Daily Heroes -by the renowned African filmmaker, Ousmane Sembene
- Filmed in Senegal in the local language: Woloff.
For developing discussion mainly on CEDAW Article 7: Political and
Public Life and Article 8: Participation at International Level.
Original in Spanish, Filmed in Rosario, Argentina.
For developing discussions mainly on CEDAW Article 14: Rural women.
- Original in Kishwahili and English
Filmed in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
For developing discussions mainly on CEDAW Article 16: Marriage
and Family
- Original in English, filmed in New York, USA.
For developing discussions mainly on CEDAW Article 15: Full Legal
Capacity
- Original in Spanish, Filmed in Rosario, Argentina.
For developing discussion mainly on CEDAW Article 11: Employment
and Article 12 - Health care and family planning.
- Original English, filmed in New York, USA.
For developing discussion mainly on CEDAW Article 1: Definition
of discrimination, Article 2: Policy measure to be taken to eliminate
discrimination, Article 3: basic human rights, Article 4: Temporary
Special Measures to Achieve Equality and Article 13: Economic Social
benefits.
- Original in Kishwahili, Filmed in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
For developing discussions mainly on Article 6: Prostitution and
Trafficking and Article 9: Nationality.
The video is accompanied by a comprehensive manual:
211 East 43rd Street, Suite 1104
New York, NY 10017, USA
tel: +1 212.749-3156; fax: +1 212.666-6325
e-mail: pdhre@igc.org