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Half the Sky: America Ferrera's Diary Cam Insights on India

5m 1s / TV-PG
Follow America Ferrera along as she narrates her time in India through a diary cam. Ferrera talks about meeting the young girls who work with Urmi Basu to break the cycle of forced prostitution. Watch as Ferrera makes chapati with the girls and even learns to sew with some of the mothers.
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Half the Sky: Seeking the Truth About Female Genital Cutting

4m 2s / TV-PG
Nicholas Kristof confronts Miriam and Farhiya in a clinic in Somaliland. The two women are traditional birth attendants and also perform female genital mutilation. However, they tell Kristof that this is a practice they have stopped doing three pears prior. Kristof investigates to find out the truth behind these claims.
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Half the Sky: A Kenyan Restauranteur Flourishes Through Micr

2m 18s / TV-PG
Olivia Wilde and Nick Kristof visit Joyce, a Kenyan woman who owns a restaurant in Nairobi. Joyce is a member of Jamii Bora, Kenya's largest microfinance organization and a powerful agent of change for the country's women. It provides loans to individuals, including former beggars, prostitutes, and the severely impoverished, who would be unable to pursue their ambitions without financing.
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Half the Sky: Creating Hope within Africa's Largest Slum

9m 52s / TV-PG
Nick Kristof and Olivia Wilde venture through Nairobi to reach Kibera, one of the largest slums in the world. Here, Kennedy Odede and Jessica Posner have worked tirelessly to promote the cause of women, using schools, clinics, and community services to combat Kibera's extreme poverty and habitual neglect toward girls.
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Half the Sky: One Girl's Long Road to School and Safety in S

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Agnes Libbi Smith lost her father during the civil war in Sierra Leone and her mother when she was 13 years old. Finding herself homeless, Agnes was physically abused and raped by a teacher who promised her an education. Finally breaking free and seeking help at the Rainbo Center with Amie Kandeh and the International Rescue Committee, Agnes hopes to become a doctor and help others.
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Half the Sky: Sakena Yacoobi on Educating Women and Girls in

5m 50s / TV-PG
Sakena Yacoobi has made a difference in the lives of around 8.5 million people through the operation of learning facilities in Afghanistan over the course of twenty years. Sakena believes that, if properly equipped with the knowledge and confidence to act, the current generation of Afghani girls can fix the country's severe gender imbalances within just 5 to 10 years.
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Half the Sky: Gender-based Violence in Sierra Leone

9m 45s / TV-PG
This educational module adapted from the documentary series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide follows journalist Nicholas Kristof and actress Eva Mendes as they investigate the high incidence of rape and impunity in Sierra Leone, and meet change maker Amie Kandeh.
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Half the Sky: Breaking the Cycle of Oppression with Educatio

1m 43s / TV-PG
Gabrielle Union, Olivia Wilde, Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof discuss solutions to the most pressing problems facing women: maternal mortality, gender-based violence, sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Women are not the problem, they are the solution. Education and economic empowerment are the ladder to a better life for women, their families and communities.
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Half the Sky: Why Do Mothers Die in Somaliland?

8m 53s / TV-PG
Hinda Hassan's death was needless and Diane Lane and Nicholas Kristof talk to Nimo, the midwife who helped her to find out what happened. In a country with no family planning and no trained doctors performing C-Sections, Hinda's death was something that would should happen in the 21st century.
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Half the Sky: Intergenerational Prostitution in India

10m 44s / TV-PG
This educational module adapted from the documentary series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide follows journalist Nicholas Kristof and actress America Ferrara as they investigate intergenerational prostitution in India, and meet change maker Urmi Basu.
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Half the Sky: Jane Ngori Turns a House into a Home in Kenya

7m 37s
Olivia Wilde and Nicholas Kristof arrive at Kaputei, some 60 KM from Nairobi to see the housing community set up by Jamii Bora. They are both initially skeptical about what this area can provide since it is so far for the women to travel to earn a living. However, after seeing Jane Ngori's house and celebrating her son Moses's 9th birthday, they change their minds.
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Half the Sky: Violence Against Women is a Global Epidemic

1m 41s / TV-PG
A group of experts and advocates describe the global epidemic of gender-based violence, which strips women of their autonomy and forces them to live in constant fear of physical retribution. The phenomenon can seem insurmountable in post-conflict countries like Sierra Leone, but extraordinary women like Amie Kandeh are nevertheless determined to bring an end to these rampant abuses.
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Half the Sky: Prostitution is the Absence of Choice

1m 40s / TV-PG
Women and girls account for 80 percent of the people trafficked across international borders each year, most often for sexual exploitation. Stripped of their basic human rights, women and girls are bought and sold, generating an estimated $27.8 billion of profit for their exploiters.
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Half the Sky: Education in Vietnam

10m 38s / TV-PG
This educational module adapted from the documentary series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide follows journalist Nicholas Kristof and actress Gabrielle Union as they meet Room to Read founder John Wood in Vietnam, and meet two girls who have become beneficiaries of his education program in that country.
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