BULLETIN NO. 12

Women Hold Up The Sky: Videos
on our Human Rights

The People's Decade of Human Rights Education, PDHRE, is introducing for use in your communities, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW, the video series Women Hold Up The Sky: eight short training videos for learning about CEDAW and its relevance to women's daily lives.

These videos include a manual, Between their stories and our realities, an integral part of the series for seminars and workshops on CEDAW. Executive Producer: Shulamith Koenig

The video series and the manual are available in English, French, and Spanish. Cost of Video and Manual, per language, $35.00 includes shipping costs.
Free copies are available for organizations and communities in developing countries.

The eight short films bring the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women alive for women and men around the world. These true stories are rendered in short narrative dramas that capture and celebrate the complexity, strength and vibrant determination of women living in a globalized, patriarchal world. The series is the fruit of a first-ever solidarity effort by human rights educators and filmmakers in the US, Latin America and Africa. Four NGOs 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 producers of the series feel the series can be used as excellent education tools for learning about human rights from a gender perspective as it relates to all people's daily lives.

You can communicate with us directly at the address below. We will welcome your inquiries,
Shula Koenig
People's Decade of Human Rights Education
526 West 111th Street, Suite 4E
NY, NY 10025, USA
Tel. 1-212-749-3156
Fax. 1-212-666-6325
MadoSpieg@aol.com