Ushering In Cambodia’s Peace
"We are imprisoned by our past and the Tribunal offers us a way out to freedom."
As Cambodia tries members of the Khmer Rouge for genocide and crimes against humanity, renowned lawyer, activist, and survivor of the killing fields Theary Seng pursues a long-awaited healing for her people.…Read More »
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Butterflies Over the Graves
"Yet, at every turn, the clear, valiant voices of so many women pierced this layer of sorrow."
It is my last day in Cambodia. I am sitting in a crowded courtroom staring through bulletproof glass at the man who presided over the killing and torturing of more than 16,000 people in Tuol Sleng prison.…Read More »
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Join the International Museum of Women and the World Affairs Council of Northern California to ask the question: As numerous solutions are proposed to fix the current global economic crisis, why do so few of the pundits and policymakers discuss the role of women?…Read More »
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New Year Baby
Suddenly confronted with the history of her family’s survival under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge, Socheata Poeuv documents the story of coming to know of her own past and that of her family. New Year Baby tells of Poeuv's birth in a refugee camp and explores the lives and experiences of Poeuv's family members, some of whom she had never before met.…Read More »
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On March 17th, Euna Lee and Laura Ling (sister to CNN correspondent Lisa Ling), were taken into custody by the North Korean military. The two women, American journalists for Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV, were reporting on the trafficking of women along the border with China and North Korea on what was intended to be a two-day assignment.…Read More »
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Updated June 25, 2009
"Women were the ones who put together the infrastructure, who organized demonstrations and knew how to do this."
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