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Summary:

This video looks at progress in achieving greater equality for women--five years after the Beijing Conference on Women. Government delegations in Beijing pledged themselves to tackle increasing violence against women. But in South Africa, the police and judiciary still don't regard rape and domestic violence as serious crimes--with only one in 20 rapists receiving a conviction, and the punishment for wife-killing equal to that of fraud. In Lithuania, violence takes a more subtle form, with economic hardship forcing many young women into the hands of unscrupulous traffickers who sell women into the sex industry in Europe and the Far East. This program also analyzes the soaring rate of teenage pregnancies in Scotland, while aging populations in Brazil and the UK mean that more and more old people live out the final years of their lives in poverty.

Contributors:

Tatham, Di , film director, film producer

Gawin, Luke , film producer

Kyriacou, Sotira , editor of moving image work

Television Trust for the Environment

BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Bullfrog Films

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English and various languages with English voiceovers.

Related Series:

Life (Bullfrog Films); [volume] 11

Subjects:

Globalization

Globalization — Social aspects

Globalization — Economic aspects

World Conference on Women

Women's rights

Women — Social conditions

Women — Crimes against

Sex discrimination against women

Women political activists — Interviews

Women political activists — Northern Ireland

Women political activists — Nigeria

Women — Brazil — Economic conditions

Women

Women political activists

Women — Economic conditions

Nigeria

Northern Ireland

Brazil

Genres:

Documentary films

Nonfiction films

Internet videos

Online media

Interviews

System Details:

Digital format: System requirements: Adobe Flash or equivalent.

Performers:

Commentary: May Blood, Jane Morrice, Monica McWilliams, Nafis Sadik, Terri Harriman, Nazhat Shameem, Emily Loughnan, Marian Hobbs, Marietjie Fourie, Ona Gustiene, Margareta Rosengren, Ulla Hoffman.

Production Credits:

Series producer, Luke Gawin ; editor, Sotira Kyriacou ; music, The Definitive Break.

General Notes:

Streaming media.
Restricted to the University of North Texas System.
Originally produced by: TVE International, ©2000.
Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 24, 2017).
Public performance rights included.
Institutional Streaming Licenses permit screening on the Unified Campus to a group only when no admission is charged and there is no advertising outside the learning community.

Audience:

Grades: 7 and up.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (24 min.)) : sound, color.

Audio Characteristics:

digital

Digital Characteristics:

video file

Call Numbers:

Online Video

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, Docuseek2: bf-lsadae

OCLC Numbers:

987275347

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: doc00000947