| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Playing Time |
011456 |
| Note |
Title from title frames. |
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Film |
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In Process Record. |
| Performer |
Mukhtar Mai |
| Event |
Originally produced by Women Make Movies in 2008. |
| Summary |
In 2002, Mukhtar Mai, a rural Pakistani woman from a remote part of the Punjab, was gang-raped by order of her tribal council as punishment for her younger brother’s alleged relationship with a woman from another clan. Instead of committing suicide or living in shame, Mukhtar spoke out, fighting for justice in the Pakistani courts—making world headlines. Further defying custom, she started two schools for girls in her village and a crisis center for abused women. Mukhtar, who had never learned to read but knew the Koran by heart, realized that only a change in mentality could break brutal, archaic traditions and social codes. Her story, included in the bestseller “Half the Sky” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and the subject of Mukhtar’s own memoir, “In the Name of Honor”, has inspired women across the globe. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Documentary-style films.
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Human rights.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Ulmer, Catherine, filmmaker
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Women Make Movies (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
3288407 Kanopy |
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