Sixteen women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in Foca, Bosnia, testify in an international court of law.
Thousands of Liberian women stand up against the warlords and regime of dictator Charles Taylor.
When the U.S. troop surge was announced in late 2009, women in Afghanistan knew that the ground was being laid for peace talks with the Taliban. This episode follows three women in Afghanistan who are risking their lives to make sure that women’s rights don’t get traded away in the deal.
In Cauca, a mountainous region in Colombia’s Pacific southwest, two extraordinary Afro-Colombian women are braving a violent struggle over their gold-rich lands. They are standing up for a generation of Colombians who have been terrorized and forcibly displaced as a deliberate strategy of war.
The final episode challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain through incisive interviews with leading thinkers, Secretaries of State and seasoned survivors of war and peace-making.
During Northern Ireland's bloody civil war, the Troubles, Catholic and Protestant women came together to ensure that human rights, equality and inclusion would shape the historic Good Friday Agreement, which brought peace to the island.
Three Egyptian women put their lives and bodies at risk in order to fight for justice and freedom during the Arab Spring, confronting and enduring the human rights abuses that would come to define it in the years afterward.
During the 1987 Palestinian uprising, which sought to secure freedom for Palestine, one woman participating in a nonviolent women's movement chose to embrace love, family and freedom when it seemed she could have only one.
Leaving their families behind, a Bangladeshi police unit consisting only of women embarked on a risky one-year U.N. peacekeeping mission to assist Haiti in the aftermath of an earthquake, shattering stereotypes in the process.
