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Breast Ironing and Beyond
Women around the world are gaining greater rights and freedoms, but theres still a long way to go. This special looks at the challenges that groups of women still face. In Cameroon, mothers are ironing their daughters breasts in an effort to make them seem less attractive to men so they do no become sexually active at an early age. We look at why Iran is considered the rhinoplasty capital of the world. In China, the economic boom has produced wide disparities in the economic conditions of its people and huge differences in the status of Chinese women, from middle class urban dwellers who, thanks to Chinas One Child Policy, enjoy some of the highest levels of equality in the world, to tens of millions of rural women who have among the lowest status. Women around the world are gaining greater rights and freedoms, but theres still a long way to go. This special looks at the challen... more
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The Landless Movement of Brazil - Part I
This documentary tells the history of agrarian reform in Brazil throught the voices of the members of the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the MST. 20 years ago, in the face of starvation and poverty, the MSTwas set up to push forward the case of land reform where “occupation is the only solution”. This documentary tells the history of agrarian reform in Brazil throught the voices of the members of the Movement of Landless Rural W... more
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