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  • Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO
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    Afghan girls and women made focus of International Education Day: UNESCO

    19/01/2023

    Barring girls and young women from classrooms in Afghanistan could wipe out huge gains made in education and create “a lost generation”, the UN’s educational and cultural organization, UNESCO, has warned. “No country in the world should bar women and girls from receiving an education. Education is a universal human right that must be respected,” said Director-General Audrey Azoulay. 

  • Freedom Fields

    Freedom Fields

    05/12/2022

    With the film ‘Freedom Fields’ and the inspiring story of three women and their football team in post-revolution Libya, Ciné-ONU Vienna dedicated its monthly film screening in December to Human Rights Day and the empowerment of women and girls through sports.

  • 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

    16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence

    25/11/2022

    The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, Human Rights Day. 

  • I Am Belmaya

    I Am Belmaya

    26/09/2022

    This month’s Ciné-ONU Vienna screened “I Am Belmaya”, a documentary that features the inspiring story of Belmaya Nepali, the Co-Director of the film, who stood up to her husband and society and reclaimed her voice through filmmaking. Silenced and subjugated most of her life, uneducated Belmaya took up the movie camera to tell her own story.