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Expert details how counter-terrorism measures hurt women
Women: a weekly 14-minute news magazine that looks at issues affecting women around the world.
Martin Scheinen
The UN expert on human rights in the fight against terrorism has presented his latest report to the General Assembly. Martin Scheinen says the report has sparked controversy because it focuses on the gender perspective of counter-terrorism measures. In this report by UN Radio's Jocelyne Sambira he details hardships experienced by women in the occupied Palestinian territories and in Iraq, where women have been imprisoned because they are married to suspected terrorists.
Giving voice to the victims and survivors of human trafficking
Human trafficking
Victims and survivors of human trafficking, and those fighting to end this trade, shared their stories at a meeting held at UN Headquarters in October. Organized by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the event gave voice to those forced into the sex trade-and the families they left behind. Ruchira Gupta, an activist from India, is president of an NGO that's fighting human trafficking. She is also a former journalist with the BBC. Back then, Gupta had thought she had seen it all, but a story about women trafficked from villages in Nepal to her homeland changed her life.
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Indian journalist devotes her life to ending human trafficking
Ruchira Gupta is founder and president of the anti-trafficking NGO Apne App Women Worldwide, which means "self help." She is also the force behind the 1995 film 'The Selling of Innocence,' made with the collaboration of 22 women who had been forced into prostitution. In this interview with UN Radio's Gail Walker, Gupta talks about global progress on the issue of human trafficking and what more needs to be done. She says she feels most inspired "when I am with the women who are holding their hearts in their hands and courage in their eyes in deciding to do something about their own exploitation, and the exploitation of their daughters."
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Producer: Dianne Penn
Duration: 14:00
Production assistant: Sandra Guy
