SHORT DOCUMENTARY

From 1996-2006, the Government of Nepal engaged in armed conflict with a Maoist insurgency. Both parties to the conflict routinely tortured, raped, detained and killed women and girls.

Captain Tamanna and Nayma are Bangladeshi’s first female military pilots, serving in the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO).

“Miracle in Rwanda” is a play based on the life of New York Times Bestselling author of “Left to Tell”, Immaculée Ilibagiza. It chronicles the dramatic events Immaculée experienced during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Every spring, billions of birds migrate to faraway lands in search of suitable breeding grounds. To protect the migration, scientists have developed a way for everyone across the globe to participate in conservation.

An estimated one third of all food produced globally is either lost or wasted. In Egypt, about a third of the grapes and a half of the tomatoes are lost through inefficient practices before they reach the consumer.

Globally, every 2 minutes, a woman dies while giving birth. In Liberia, brave midwives are saving the lives of mothers and children even during the time when the country was devastated by the Ebola outbreak. (Video courtesy of UNFPA)

Sweden is one of the major troop contributors to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), with a battalion of some 250 military personnel, including over 20 women.

Mouminatou Barry is one of countless female innovators who prove that all people can make a contribution to science and technology. Sharing their experiences, these accomplished women send a strong message of empowerment for new generations of women

A changemaker who was the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Ralph Bunche is considered the ‘Father of Peacekeeping’ for his contributions to the United Nations. And yet his is not a name many would recognize.

Fatima Khamis is an extraordinary woman. After standing up to her family in her home country of Sudan to study computer engineering, she went to the Central African Republic where she joined the United Nations peacekeeping mission.