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    • UN in ACTION, an award-winning television series, reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 3- to 5-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The series consists of fifty seven pieces a year and is available free of rights to broadcasters. For more information, please contact Diane Barkley, barkley@un.org.
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India: Forgotten Women

In India, millions of women are shunned from society when their husbands die. Excluded and marginalized, they face a life of poverty and injustice. Many live on the streets begging for a bite to eat. One woman, a widow herself, is working to change their lives - restoring dignity and human rights to these forgotten women. UNIA program # 1318 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1318.pdf

Date:18 November 2011
Programme number:1318
Duration:00:04:45

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