This video documents Margaret Tuhumwire, director of Environmental Women in Action for Development (EWAD), announcing development projects to a small formal gathering of people sitting and standing outside in Entebbe, Uganda. One of the projects announced is part of the Entebbe Women's Association (EWA). EWA is a local partner with the International Women's Rights Project (IWRP), University of Victoria. The description on IWRP's website (https://iwrp.org/news/entebbe-women-association/) reads: "The Entebbe Women Association (EWA) is a non-profit organization based in Entebbe, Uganda, and provide services for children and families in need. EWA takes an interest in community development, seeking to address the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and families, and also working to protect the community-sustaining natural resource of the waters of Lake Victoria." Other women identified in the video are: Doo Aphane(founding national coordinator, Women and Law Southern Africa) at 00:00:22 seconds and Mary Balikungeri (director, Rwanda Women’s Network) at 00:00:46 seconds.
This video documents a talk given by Sharon McIvor on the McIvor v. Canada case at the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, University of British Columbia in 2010. Sharon McIvor is a member of the Lower Nicola Indian Band and Nlaka'pamux Nation. Sharon is known for her activism against sex-based discrimination to Indigenous women and children and reform in Canadian legislation. Notably the Bill C-3: 2011 Amendments to the Indian Act which grant 6(2) Indian status to grandchildren of women who regained status in 1985. This amendment to the Indian Act was the government of Canada's response to the McIvor v. Canada case. Sharon's activism for equality for Indigenous women was recognized by Canada’s Governor General in 2011. Sharon is a lawyer and has taught at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology in Merritt, British Columbia.
Constitute! is a documentary film on the Women's Constitutional Conference which took place on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, February 14, 1981 to insure equal rights for women in the Canadian Constitution's Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Sections 15 and 18). The documentary was created by Susan Bazilli and Robert Rooney as part of the International Women's Rights Project (IWRP), University of Victoria. The documentary was produced by Rooney Productions. IWRP made the documentary available on Constitute.ca. The description on the website reads: "Constitute! tells the story of the largest social mobilization of women in Canadian history in the 20th century. Led by the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women and the Constitution, women and other activists across the country fought to gain stronger equality provisions were entrenched in the newly repatriated Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Sections 15 and 28). The film celebrates their constitutional activism and passion for democratic renewal. Constitute! educates and informs about how important citizen engagement is for democracy in Canada and beyond. Interviews, speeches, songs, debates and images tells the story of what happened on that cold Valentine’s Day in 1981 and what it means to future generations of young Canadians." The end credits of the film have a statement that reads: "With special thanks to Marilou McPhedran for conceiving and organizing The Canadian Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform in February 2006, which made this film possible." Marilou McPhedran was the director of the Institute for International Women’s Rights at the University of Winnipeg. The section titled "The Interviews" on Constitute.ca, it states that Sally Armstrong is a Canadian journalist and human rights activist who interviewed the women in the film Constitute! The interviews were conducted in 2006 at the Canadian Forum on Women’s Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform in Ottawa. Women identified in the film are in order of appearance : Marilou McPhedran (Ad Hock Committee), Doris Anderson (former president of CACSW), Michele Landsberg (columnist), Lynn MacDonald (president, National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC)) Betsy Carr (member of executive, NAC), Linda Palmer Nye (Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women and the Constitution), Pat Hacker (Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women and the Constitution), Flora Mac Donald M.P., Caroline Egan (International Women's Day Committee, Toronto), Marlene Pierre (president, Native Women’s Association of Canada), Jenny Margetts (president, Indian Rights for Indian Women), Sharon McIvor (Native Women's Association of Canada), Pauline Jewett M.P., Linda Ryan[Palmer?] Nye (Ad Hock Committee).
This video documents an interview with Murwarid Ziayee, director for Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan, Kabul. The interviewer is assumed to be [Susan Bazilli? director of the International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP), University of Victoria]. The video was made available on IWRP’s website under the section titled 'Afghanistan' (http://iwrp.org/projects/afghanistan/)
This video documents an interview with Dr. Sima Samar in July of 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The interviewer is Susan Bazilli, director for the International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP), University of Victoria. Dr. Sima Simar speaks on current issues for women in Afghanistan, policies, politics, and principals of human rights. The video was made available on the website for the International Women's Rights Project under the section titled 'Afghanistan' (http://iwrp.org/projects/afghanistan/).
This video documents an interview with Mary Balikungeri, director of the Rwanda Women’s Network. The interview was conducted by Sally Armstrong at the Canadian Forum on Women’s Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform on February 14th, 2006, Parliament Hill, Ottawa. In the section titled "The Interviews" on Constitute.ca it reads: "Mary Balikungeri, the Director of the Rwanda Women’s Network, talks about the Rwandan genocide and its impact on women and children and the role at the network plays in reconciliation and building a health society in Rwanda." The video is supplementary interview material for the documentary film Constitute!. Constitute.ca is a project of the International Women’s Rights Project (IWRP), University of Victoria.
This video documents Lerato Legoabe, Coordinator of GirlsNet, South Africa, speaking at the Canadian Forum on Women’s Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform on February 14th, 2006, Parliament Hill, Ottawa. The event was an intergenerational forum on democratic renewal to produce forward looking strategies in a global context for intergenerational women’s equality rights. Lerato states in the video: "[...] I want to end with three challenges and, like I did yesterday, I want to cluster them together. The issue of access to information. The issue of violence against women because I feel violence against women, as a South African and I think, as a young woman of the world, is a very big challenge that many governments, civil society and people in general are struggling to deal with and I feel that, as the young women's movement, we need to be a voice that has a position on this issue. We also need to come up with strategies that will influence some of the activism that needs to happen on the ground on this issue: HIV AIDS and its link to violence against women, child trafficking (it's now called modern day slavery). We need to have a position on that. [...]" The 2006 forum was held in the same room on Parliament Hill as the 1981 Women’s Constitutional Conference twenty-five years prior. The 2006 forum was attended by original members of Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women and the Constitution (who organized the 1981 conference) along with parliamentarians, students and other activists over the course of two days.
