Construction of a new road from China through Laos is transforming the traditional local economies. The road has increased commerce as local women initiate a lively trade with construction workers and their merchant wives.

30 second spot on gender equality produced by the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of ICPD.

This Slide Show was exhibited at the UNFPA Booth during the Women Deliver Conference, held June 7-9th in Washington, DC.

Many Burmese make the short journey to Thailand to find work. Often fishermen spend between one and two months at sea. Women have found work in fish markets, but some have ended up working as sex workers in karaoke bars.

In Uganda today family planning is at the top of the agenda. At the moment there are 34 million citizens but the country has one of the fastest growing populations anywhere in the world. On average each woman will give birth to six children.

The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina may have ended 15 years ago, but for some 20,000 women, the legacy of wartime rape lives on. Women of all ethnic groups are still trying to cope with the psychological effects of violence perpetrated against them.

Married at 11, Destaye had hoped to stay in school.  But the birth of her child a few years later interrupted her plans. This short film examines the journey of an Ethiopian child bride.

In Afghanistan, conflict has not only caught the female non-combatants in its violence, but have severely crippled already inadequate services such as health and education.

It is mainly men who wage war. But it is women who so often pay the price. They bear the brunt of the suffering protracted conflict brings.