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Some say new penalties for rape don't deal with key issues, protest
1. Wide of protest; protester shouting slogan UPSOUND: (Hindi) "Government ordinance down, down"
2. Close of woman shouting slogan UPSOUND: (Hindi) "Stop misleading people"
3. Close of banner reading: (English) "Say no to UPA's (ruling...
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Model bares all in the name of women's rights
APTN - Buenos Aires, 19/8/2003
1. Wide shot of model hidden behind red cloth
2. Model preparing behind cloth
3. Cloth is removed revealing naked model in tree
4. Various shots of naked model in tree
5. Model afterward with robe on...
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Hundreds outside PM's residence to protest violence against women
1. Various of people protesting near prime minister's house to demand laws to protect women and punish those involved in crimes against women
2. Police line keeping protesters away from prime minister's house
3. Various of protesters...
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Women protest against restrictions on women's rights in draft constitution
1. Pan across women protesting with placards and banners
2. Wide of protesters carrying banners reading: (Arabic) "No to Constitution's Article 36"
3. Mid of protesters chanting (Arabic): "We want a constitution for all Egyptians"
4....
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Lee urges Japan to resolve sexual slavery issue as SKorea marks liberation
South Korea President Lee Myung-bak has urged Japan to address the issue of "comfort women" - sex slaves used by the Japanese military during World War II.
Lee told an audience gathered in Seoul on Wednesday to celebrate Liberation Day,...
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10,000 women march to demand release of female prisoner
1. Wide of the 'Antorcha Campesina' march
2. Various of women marching
3. Close up of banner reading: " Freedom for political prisoners"
4. Band playing
5. Women dressed in white, holding roses, marching and shouting: "Freedom for...
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Border state puts adverts on tortilla wrappers to help find missing women and children
1. Various of "tortilleria" (where tortillas are made)
2. Various of workers wrapping tortillas on paper with advertising to raise awareness of missing persons
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esperanza Lozoya, "Tortilleria" employee:
"People...
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BANGLADESH :TASLIMA NASREEN TRIAL
Nat/Eng/Bengali
In Bangladesh, an exiled woman author goes on trial in her absence tomorrow (Saturday) charged with 'offending religious sentiments'.
Taslima Nasreen received death threats from Muslim fundamentalists after she was quoted...
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Human Rts Watch report on forced Islamic dress for Chechen women
Human Rights Watch released a report on Thursday condemning Chechnya's regional government's enforcement of a compulsory Islamic dress code for women.
Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov's feared security forces have used paintball...
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Japan - S.Korean Comfort Women Protest
Five former "military comfort women" from South Korea on Tuesday
(18/10) urged Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama to
reconsider the government's plan to set up a private fund to offer
"gift money" to women forced into prostitution...
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BANGLADESH: WOMEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO VOTE
English/Nat
Voters in Bangladesh go to the polls Wednesday, hoping to end a political standoff that has paralysed their government and threatened their nation's young democracy.
But not every Bangladeshi will cast a ballot - there is...
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NETHERLANDS: SEX TOURISM INDUSTRY
Amsterdam, Utrecht, & Roetermeer, Netherlands Recent
Amsterdam
1. ws beauty scene
2. residents skating on frozen canal
3. "Dominique" and friend walking across bridge
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Dominique, Prostitute
5. pan Red Light...
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Women's rights organisation call for kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls to be released
A group of activists gathered outside the Nigerian embassy in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Wednesday to call for the release of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last month.
The girls' mass abduction on April 15 by...
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France drops Mademoiselle tag in offical documents
Paris, March 6th, 2011
1. Wide shot of young woman in the street
2. Woman wearing headphones walking past
3. Woman in hat walking past cafe
4. Pan from a woman sitting at table in cafe to Isabelle Sempere
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Isabelle...
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Big decline in number of mothers breastfeeding babies sparks concern
19 May 2013
1. Wide of Ruth Gonzalez feeding her son Luis Fernando, who is lying on bed, with a baby bottle
2. Close of boy's face drinking milk from baby bottle
3. Mid of Gonzalez bottle-feeding her son
4. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ruth...
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UN HUMAN RIGHTS CHIEF NAVI PILLAY MEETS MUGABE AND TSVANGIRAI
Zimbabwe's president says homosexuality doesn't belong in Zimbabwe because the union of men and women is needed to bear children
President Robert Mugabe, 88, speaking at a women's HIV/Aids and gender rights conference in Harare, said on...
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Protests with mock trial, spoof game, reax
1. Various of South Koreans in anti-WTO/anti-US protest outside US consulate
2. Wide of big board game called "WTO-poly" (in the style of a monopoly board) surrounded by people
3. Mid of people holding placards saying board game...
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ETHIOPIA: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN BEGINS 8 NATION AFRICAN TOUR
English/Nat
On the first leg of an eight-nation African tour, U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan addressed the problems of African women and development at a U-N forum in Ethiopia on Thursday.
He told the conference that violence...
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Maasai Warriors train for international cricket competition
1. Various of Maasai Cricket Warriors team playing cricket
2. Wide of members of cricket team and brothers Jonathan and Francis Meshame going on their morning run
3. Various of Meshame brothers on run
4. Mid pan right of Jonathan and...
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Border state puts adverts on tortilla wrappers to help find missing women and children
1. Various of "tortilleria" (where tortillas are made)
2. Various of workers wrapping tortillas on paper with advertising to raise awareness of missing persons
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Esperanza Lozoya, "Tortilleria" employee:
"People...
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MEXICO: RAPED WOMEN DEMONSTRATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Controversy has flared in Mexico over the decision in one state to punish raped women who have an abortion with prison sentences of up to six years.
Guanajuato's parliament, dominated by right-wing members from the National...
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GAZA: HILLARY ATTENDS WOMANS CENTRE (V)
English/Nat
The U-S First Lady received a tumultuous welcome during her own tour of Gaza.
At a Palestinian refugee camp, Hillary Rodham Clinton sat in on a class of young women learning their rights under Islamic law.
Accompanied by...
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Candlelit vigil as protest over violence against women goes into the night
Dozens of people gathered in New Delhi on Saturday evening to hold a candlelight vigil and to protest against the gang rape and murder of two teenage girls in a Northern Indian state.
The girls who were cousins, went missing and were...
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WRAP Tyson takes first step toward license in Washington
Washington DC, 19 Feb 2002
1. Wide shot media members gather around news conference location
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Brown, Washington DC Boxing and Wrestling Commissioner
"We are obviously pleased to announce today that we have...