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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..."
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
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