TEDxCMU -- Michealene Risley -- Rape & Abuse in Africa
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Michealene Risley shares with us her incredible story on how she gave up a comfortable life as a corporate executive and traveled to Zimbabwe to document some of the most heartbreaking and unfortunately events that are happening to women and little girls. Learning through her own experiences with abuse and imprisonment in a Zimbabwe torture cent... Read more
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- -: TEDxCMU -- Michealene Risley -- Rape & Abuse in Africa
April 29, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Michealene Risley shares with us her incredible story on how she gave up a comfortable life as a corporate executive and traveled to Zimbabwe to document some of the most heartbreaking and unfortunately events that are happening to women and little girls. Learning through her own experiences with...
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- -: TEDxKarachi - Mukhtaran Mai
July 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Mukhtaran Mai is interviewed by Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy at TEDxKarachi 2011 About the Speaker Mukhtaran Mai was no different from the other ordinary women of Muzaffar Garh district of Pakistan until she was struck by a horrible calamity that changed the course of her life. Instead of succumbing t...
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- -: Sunitha Krishnan's fight against sex slavery
December 8, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Sunitha Krishnan has dedicated her life to rescuing women and children from sex slavery, a multimilion-dollar global market. In this courageous talk, she tells three powerful stories, as well as her own, and calls for a more humane approach to helping these young victims rebuil...
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- -: Fighting for Women's Rights In China - Sheryl WuDunn
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/21/Empowering_Women_and_Girls_in_the_Developing_World Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl WuDunn describes her journey from covering the violence in Tiananmen Square to actively fighting the oppression of women around the world. Her activism was spa...
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- -: How the Sex Trafficking Industry Is Evolving - Lydia Cacho
September 3, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/21/Lydia_Cacho_Goes_Undercover_in_the_Global_Sex_Trade Investigative journalist Lydia Cacho traces the increasing sophistication of sex traffickers, who she describes as having gone from simply abducting girls and women to "creating a pop culture of por...
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- -: V-Day Congo: Eve Ensler Builds 'City of Joy' for Rape Victims
March 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/03/02/I_Am_An_Emotional_Creature_An_Evening_with_Eve_Ensler Eve Ensler, V-Day founder and author of The Vagina Monologues, discusses her efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to end sexual violence against women. Ensler is creating the City of Joy...
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- -: Biden's Scare Tactics
October 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Content comming soon
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Eve Ensler: Security
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Eve Ensler contemplates on the true meaning of security in the lives of the people she met in her travels and in the stories she compiled for the Vagina Monologues.
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Eve Ensler: Happiness in Body and Soul
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Eve Ensler talks about how she started the Vagina Monologues: the places she'd been to, the people she met and the realization of what happiness is that came along with it.
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Taryn Simon: Taryn Simon Photographs Secret Sites
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Taryn Simon shows powerful photographs of truths and mistaken truths.
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