A young teenager appears on LTL’s music video and smiles. He’s surrounded by friends while holding a rubik’s cube. He looks happy, which is fitting because the title of the video is Pasala Bien, meaning, ‘Have Fun’. The song starts, but after the first verse we quickly realize this music video isn’t your average pop song […]
15 men in the “I Have a Story” all-male film club in Al Mansoura, Jordan advocated for 25 women in their community to receive training on how to make & sell beautiful jewelry. The men surveyed over 400 women in their community in Al Mansoura to determine what vocational training course women would be interested in participating […]
India has the largest number of child brides in the world. Although child marriage has been illegal in the country for decades, the tradition runs rampant. UNICEF defines child marriage as marriage before the age of 18 and “a fundamental violation of human rights.” According to the 2016 UNICEF report, over 3 million girls in India […]
Thank you for an empowering #GirlConnected screening and panel! We are inspired by our thoughtful conversation on how gender stereotypes constrain girls’ and women’s potential, and how we as a global community can support girls to transcend them. If you didn’t get the chance to watch the Girl Connected film it is available for free online, along with the Girl Connected […]
The Women and Girls Lead Global campaign in Jordan, I Have a Story, is excited to announce a new YouTube series with YouTube sensation, Lina Abu Rezeq, called, ‘Her & Him’ with Lina. ‘Her and Him’ with Lina is a funny and engaging 6-episode series on provocative social issues affecting all of us: gender stereotypes and women’s rights. A […]
A Women and Girls Lead Global facilitator, Sana Al Hanaqtah, used to watch Women of the World films with her husband, Ahmad, as she prepared for her all female community screenings. Ahmad, age 45, was so inspired by the films and the WGLG 3-Film model that he asked Sana to train him in film facilitation. […]
The results of the Kenyan national election are in, and although there is lingering controversy with a few elected positions, one incredible truth holds: women candidates made history. For the first time ever in Kenya, three women were elected into the Senate, and three women clinched the position of governor. Twenty-three women won seats in […]
For decades, the state of Haryana was infamous for high reports of honor killings, rape, domestic violence, dowry deaths, and sex-selective abortions. The result was the lowest female: male sex ratio in all of India; about 880 females to every 1,000 males. Women and girls did not have the same value as men and boys. […]
For many years, Peru BIRF in Juliaca, an industrial city in the Andes region of Peru, had a reputation as a ‘bad’ school. Every morning, as classes were getting underway at BIRF (which stands for Banco Internacional de Reconstrucción y Fomento), a van rolled slowly around the neighborhood, looking for kids skipping school. Some of […]
Over 30 girls in Kabi Nazrul Bidyapith School in Satkhira, Bangladesh watched and celebrated the 500th screening of the Women and Girls Lead Global documentary, Girl Connected. They were joined by a very special guest- none other than one of the stars from the film, Latifa!