Africa Project Videotape collection, 1985-1989

World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women (1985 : Nairobi, Kenya) (1985 : Nairobi, Kenya)

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The Third United Nations World Conference on Women took place between 15 and 26 July 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women was adopted by consensus. The conference marked the first time that lesbian rights were introduced in a UN official meeting and the turning-point for violence against women to emerge from being a hidden topic into one which needed to be addressed. There were 157 countries represented with around 1,400 official delegates. ...

Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-

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Activist, author, and professor, Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944, the daughter of two teachers. Active at an early age in the Black Panthers and the Communist Party, Davis also formed an interracial study group and volunteered for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while still in high school. At fifteen, after earning a scholarship, Davis traveled to New York to complete high school. In 1960, Davis traveled to Germany to study for two years, and then ...

Davile, Sonja

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Parpan, Mariflor

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Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women

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Kumari, Ranjana

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WOMEN'S VIDEO COLLECTIVE (Cambridge, Mass.)

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The Women's Video Collective (WVC) was formed by a small group of women from the Boston area in May 1983. Their purpose was to document the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in upstate New York. From this experience, the collective developed their mission: to produce media works promoting feminism and peace. In July 1985, the collective sent a group to Nairobi to document Forum '85, the Non-Governmental Organizations (N.G.O.) conference concurrent with the Third U...

Solidad, Mary, Sister

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Myambura, Mary

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Haidar, Nahla

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