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Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis (2006) (DVD or Video Cassette NTSC/PAL/SECAM:Order)
Description: These are trying times for women in many parts of the world. War, violence, extremism, fundamentalism, and restrictive legislation are but the most striking of the hurdles women must overcome as they strive for the most rudimentary of rights. Against All Odds: Women Partnering for Change in a Time of Crisis tells the story of women activists from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East who working in partnership have developed and implemented appropriate strategies to overcome these challenges. These women leaders speak of the ways and means of strengthening women’s movements by building alliances, sharing inter-generational experience and expertise, and devising contextual, culture-specific, grassroots-based approaches to empowering women and girls. Read more.
Run Time: 28:00
Multimedia Categories
About WLP
Leadership and Empowerment
ICT Capacity Building
Culture of Peace
Women's Human Rights
Political Participation
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About WLP
About Women's Learning Partnership (Online Video: WMV)
Description: Informational video about the work of Women's Learning Partnership.
Run time: 09:25
Leadership and Empowerment
Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning (Persian Edition) (2005) (Training Manual, 3 Video Cassettes NTSC/PAL, and 3 Guides: Order)
Description: The Persian edition of Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning is the first culture-specific adaptation of WLP's innovative multimedia training package. The Persian edition is tailored for human rights and democracy activists, educators, women leaders, and facilitators working with Persian speaking communities in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran, and the Persian diaspora. WLP has trained a group of women from Iran to use the Multimedia Curriculum effectively at a National Institute for Women's Leadership and Training of Trainers and will continue to disseminate the curriculum at future Institutes. The curriculum is based on a concept of participatory leadership that enables women and men to develop skills to prevent conflict, share power, and build coalitions to promote human rights, social justice, and peace. The package provides interactive, scenario-based activities and illustrative examples of how to create participatory and democratic learning environments, how to implement successful advocacy campaigns, and how to develop compelling messages for target audiences. Women's Learning Partnership collaboratively developed the prototype curriculum and materials with women's rights activists and our partner organizations in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, and Uzbekistan and created the Persian adaptation in consultation with Iranian activists and scholars. Read more.
Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning (English edition) (2003) (Training Manual, 3 Video Cassettes NTSC/PAL/SECAM, and 3 Guides: Order)
Description: An innovative multimedia training package designed to empower women to participate as leaders in the decision-making processes that impact their lives. The curriculum is based on a concept of participatory leadership that enables women and men to develop skills to prevent conflict, share power, and build coalitions to promote human rights, social justice, and peace. The package provides interactive, scenario-based activities and illustrative examples of how to create participatory and democratic learning environments, how to implement successful advocacy campaigns, and how to develop compelling messages for target audiences. These innovative materials are tailored for human rights and democracy activists, educators, women leaders, and facilitators who seek to engage in their own leadership development and increase women's agency for achieving their social, economic, and legal rights. Women's Learning Partnership collaboratively developed the curriculum and materials with women's rights activists and our partner organizations in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, and Uzbekistan. Read more.
CD-Rom: Leading to Choices: A Multimedia Curriculum for Leadership Learning (English Edition) (2004) (CD-Rom 1, CD-Rom 2: Order)
Description: An innovative multimedia training package designed to empower women to participate as leaders in the decision-making processes that impact their lives. The curriculum is based on a concept of participatory leadership that enables women and men to develop skills to prevent conflict, share power, and build coalitions to promote human rights, social justice, and peace. The package provides interactive, scenario-based activities and illustrative examples of how to create participatory and democratic learning environments, how to implement successful advocacy campaigns, and how to develop compelling messages for target audiences. These innovative materials are tailored for human rights and democracy activists, educators, women leaders, and facilitators who seek to engage in their own leadership development and increase women's agency for achieving their social, economic, and legal rights. Women's Learning Partnership collaboratively developed the curriculum and materials with women's rights activists and our partner organizations in Afghanistan, Cameroon, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, and Uzbekistan. Read more.
Women and Leadership in Muslim Societies: Voices for Change (2002) (Online Audio: MPEG | RM)
Description: Prominent women leaders discuss women's leadership and strategies for expanding women's political participation in Muslim societies. Speakers include Azar Nafisi (Iran), a visiting scholar at the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute and Director of the SAIS Dialogue Project at Johns Hopkins University; Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/USA), Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership; Ayesha Imam (Nigeria), an expert on women's legal rights in Africa; Asma Khader (Jordan), a leading advocate of the campaign to strengthen legislation outlawing honor killing, is a member of the Permanent Arab Court as Counsel on violence against women; Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia), Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); and Shirin Tahir-Kheli (Pakistan), former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for special political affairs. Read more.
Leading to Choices: Women's Leadership and Institutional Change (2001) (Online Audio: RM)
Description: Leading civil society and women's rights experts discuss women's leadership and strategies for institutional change. Speakers include Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/USA), Founder and President of Women's Learning Partnership; Charlotte Bunch (USA), Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership(CWGL); Ayesha Imam (Nigeria), Founding Director of BAOBAB for Women's Human Rights in Nigeria; Kumi Naidoo (South Africa), Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation; and Aruna Rao (India), President of the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). Read more.
ICT Capacity Building
Cultural Boundaries and Cyber Spaces: Women's Voices on Empowerment, Leadership, and Technology (Video Cassette NSTC/PAL /SECAM: Order)
Description: An education and training tool designed for use by individuals or groups addressing women's advancement within specific cultural boundaries. Leading women in politics, law, and education describe their unique experiences and perspectives on women's leadership in their communities, and ways in which they use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to organize and educate. The video dispels stereotypes about women from Africa and the Middle East, and encourages women to think strategically about using ICTs to enhance their advocacy efforts. It showcases innovative uses of computers, email and listservs, radio, video, telecenters/cyber cafés, and websites across the globe. Read more.
Run time: 30:00
Women e-merging: Stories of Women Using Communication Technologies in Africa and the Middle East (2000) (Audio Cassette: Order)
Description: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are enabling women to network, organize, campaign, advocate, and educate across cultural boundaries. In this program, fifteen leading women from Afghanistan, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and other countries tell their stories about the exciting ways in which they are using ICTs within their communities.
Run time: 29:00
Culture of Peace
Clash or Consensus: Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World (2003) (CD: Order | Online Audio: RM)
Description: More than 250 activists, academics, policy-makers, and organizational and religious leaders from over 20 countries gathered at WLP's human security conference, "Clash or Consensus: Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World." The conference provided a forum for women leaders and human security experts from the Global South--particularly from Muslim societies--to explore ways to discuss and define human security goals and challenges from a perspective that is people-centered. In six panel discussions conference participants discussed challenges to achieving security for all and identified the conditions needed for citizens to live in safety, peace and dignity; exercise their fundamental right to health, education and well-being; exert the freedom to choose; and participate fully in governance. Read more.
In the Aftermath of Terror: Women Leaders Discuss Peace, Justice, and Conflict Resolution in the Aftermath In a Globalized World (2001) (CD: Order | Online Audio: RM)
Description: Following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 in the US, and in order to bring women's perspectives into the discussion of this horrendous event and its consequences, women leaders from across the world joined in an electronic colloquium from September 24-27, 2001 to express their sympathy for the victims; discuss the effect of the tragedy on the future of world peace, inter-communal justice, and human rights; assess various possible military, economic, and developmental responses governments may undertake and their impact on civil society; and explore ways of mobilizing individuals and NGOs to build global solidarity for the rule of law, tolerance, and peaceful resolution of conflicts across regions and faiths. Read more.
Faith and Freedom: Women From the Three Abrahamic Religions Talk About Terror, War, and Peace (2001) (Online Audio: RM)
Description: Women leaders explore the common values underlying Christianity, Judaism and Islam, and the role of religion in conflict resolution and violence prevention. They address the challenges facing the United States and the international community in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks in the U.S. and the need to build a global coalition for peace and tolerance. Read more.
Women's Human Rights
Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies (2005) (CD: Order |Online Audio: RM)
Description: More than 250 government ministers and representatives, United Nations country and convention delegates, leaders of international non-governmental organizations, representatives of leading international media, and women activists representing organizations from over 50 countries gathered at WLP's international symposium, "Leading to Change: Eliminating Violence Against Women in Muslim Societies." The symposium provided a space for prominent women leaders and activists from Muslim-majority societies to address major challenges to eliminating violence against women and girls and discuss grassroots, national, and regional efforts focusing on prevention and awareness raising, as well as ongoing efforts to reform legislation on violence and women's human rights. In three panel discussions, symposium speakers and participants discussed issues of culture, conflict, and extremism, international perspectives on the role of the state, the war against terror, and international developments in combating violence against women, and specific experiences in advocacy, capacity building, legislative reform, and mobilization efforts in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Read more.
Life Lines: The Literature of Women's Human Rights (2001-3):
Description: Between 2001-3, WLP convened a Human Rights Series entitled "Life Lines: The Literature of Women's Human Rights." Life Lines are readings by leading women poets and writers from around the world. Women's writing, poetry or prose, can weave life lines which connect the reader/listener to testimonies and to calls for solidarity and action. The literature of human rights makes the reader/listener a witness to events, conditions, and social realities that are at times painful, and at other times full of hope. Life Lines are designed to reveal, to record, and to rescue. They come in all lengths and design, they are culture specific, and they are universal. They are women's voices cast across divides to convey understanding and appreciation for the pain of exile, torture, violence and war, and the possibility of starting afresh, of healing, safety, and peace. Read more.
Line Lines 2003 (Online Audio: RM)
WLP in Collaboration with: The Center for Global Peace at American University
Participants: Nathalie Handal, Azar Nafisi, Sonia Sanchez, and Reetika Vazirani
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Life Lines 2002 (Online Audio: RM)
WLP in Collaboration with: The Center for Global Peace at American University
Participants: Elizabeth Alexander (U.S.), Merle Collins (Grenada), Fatema Mernissi (Morocco), and Goli Taraghi (Iran)
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Life Lines 2001 (Online Audio: RM)
WLP in Collaboration with: The African and Middle Eastern Division of The Library of Congress
Participants: Leila Ahmed (Egypt), Abena Busia (Ghana), Emma Sepúlveda (Argentina), and Goli Taraghi (Iran)
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Political Participation
Reflections on the International Women's Movement: 10 Years After Beijing (2005) (Online Video: WMV)
Description: Four leading international women's rights activists engaged in an intercultural dialogue on the status of women in a fast changing world, and discussed the challenges presented by the new technological, economic, cultural, and political realities. Panelist Joanna Kerr found hope in the situation, "Going forward at this time of intense turmoil...we need a surfeit of hope and inspiration. That, and the knowledge that feminists a hundred years ago could never have dreamed of the successes so many of us enjoy today." Panelists discussed the current status of women globally and the international women's movement in light of the tenth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the conference. Read more.