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		<title>Madmundo.tv - Chahinaz: What Rights for Women?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a film, an investigation, and a discovery: Chahinaz is a 21 year old university student in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city. She lives with a loving father and a brother of 15 years. She's vibrant and questioning as any young student should be. Her questions are both personal and universal - how can I continue to live as a woman in such a traditional society?]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>Madmundo.tv - Chahinaz: What Rights for Women?</title>
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			<title>01. What Rights for Women?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Like many of her generation, "she knows the Western world and its lifestyle through satellite television and the Internet cafe" a marked contrast with her country where the Family Code, enacted as recently as 1984, places the Algerian woman under the tutelage of her husband... and this idea revolts her! How can things be so unequal for women here and what is it like for women in other parts of the world, she asks? On her journey from Algeria to neighbouring Morocco, from India, to Ireland, France, the US, the UN and back again to Algeria, she (and we) learn what it may take to "change the world" for women.<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/what-rights-for-women">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>02. "You can revolt against anyone but God..."</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Once again Chahinaz is in discussion with some student friends - this time in the University cafeteria. Chahinaz is really quite angry that she always needs her father (whom she adores), or her brother (equally), or if not, a male "guardian", before she can do a whole range of things on her own, from driving a car to getting married. But one of her friends says, simply, "it's in your religion - you can revolt against the idea, but you cannot revolt against God. What do you think - and how should Chahinaz have responded? Have your say on this inflammatory question...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/you-can-revolt-against-anyone-but-god">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>03. "Unconstitutional"</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Chahinaz meets the President of the League of Human Rights. In Algeria, "La Ligue des Droits de l'Homme" is truly independent of government and religion. Indeed in the past, it has not hesitated to denounce all forms of repression, including against Islamists. In a new endeavour, he is now questioning how Algeria came to vote for the Family Code, which gives legal force to inequality between men and women. He believes the Code is unconstitutional.<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/unconstitutional">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>04. Constantine - any space for women?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Chahinaz finds it difficult (if not impossible sometimes) to walk around her city, Constantine, even with a girlfriend in tow. The first 30 seconds of this extract demonstrate the problem! She then talks with her brother about the lack of places for women to congregate in Constantine.But they both adore and dream of the "big city", Algiers. Is that dream any different from anywhere else in the world? Or is it very unfair to compare Chahianz's problems with those of the West?<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/constantine-any-space-for-women">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/constantine-any-space-for-women</link>
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			<title>05. A good Christian in other countries, with other religions, how do women live?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[In talking with a young American, Chahinaz will begin the process of discovery. Stacey, a 24 year-old American, defines herself as a committed Christian. She is studying communications and works part-time at a restaurant in San Francisco. Without knowing Chahinaz beforehand, she agrees to answer her questions. What life differences are there between a young Algerian woman and an American? Whether it's the social status of women, the place of religion (Christian or Muslim) in everyday life, the international politics of George W. Bush or the American dream that interests you, this meeting between Algerian Chahinaz and American Stacey is well worth a view...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/a-good-christian-in-other-countries-with-other-religions-how-do-women-live">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/a-good-christian-in-other-countries-with-other-religions-how-do-women-live</link>
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			<title>07. "I never thought it would be so difficult"</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Follow Chahinaz in her next discovery, this time in Europe: Ireland, a country where the power of Catholicism has been so strong in shaping the lives of women. In the eighties, Irish women couldn't own a bank account. It was assumed that they would quit their job after the birth of their first child! For Chahinaz, two Irish women, the writer Nell Mc Cafferty and the ex-President of the Irish Republic, Mary Robinson, tell the story of their struggles and about the big turn-around in 1992...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/i-never-thought-it-would-be-so-difficult">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/i-never-thought-it-would-be-so-difficult</link>
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			<title>08. A land of paradoxes</title>
			<description><![CDATA[At the other end of the world: India. It was difficult for Chahinaz to imagine this country, poor but developed. The issue of women is another Indian paradox: on the one hand, women are worshipped as goddesses of knowledge (Saraswati), wealth (Laxmi) and power (Shakti)... On the other hand, thousands of women suffer domestic violence every day. Thousands of others are burned, poisoned because their dowries are not sufficient, or killed before birth through the technology of sex determination...

Of three and a half million elected representatives in India, over a third are now women. Does this mean a shift in attitudes? The Indian director Neelima Mathur takes us to a village in northern India, in the province of Himachal Pradesh, to meet Shakuntala Sharma. At 50, she was elected to the board of her village...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/a-land-of-paradoxes">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/a-land-of-paradoxes</link>
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			<title>09. Men - again!</title>
			<description><![CDATA[We return to the University, where Chahinaz and her student friends sit on a wall outside the university - and discuss what it's like to be a young woman in Algeria today. 45 years after the victory of the Front de Liberation Nationale (a socialist and secular movement) which led to the country's independence from France, the girls wonder: how did it come to this? How long will it take for the mentality (of men) to change? Where is the blockage? In Islam? Or from tradition? Opinions differ strongly...

It's a spirited discussion which inevitably brings in the attitudes of men, younger or older. Is this attitude (and discussion) unique to Algeria, or just more pronounced?

You can have your say, in writing or by webcam...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/men-again">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>10. The Letter</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Far from the passionate debate between friends, Chahinaz was invited to write a very particular letter. Indeed, one doesn't write every day to the President of the United Nations General Assembly. But when the President is, as Chahinaz, a woman (Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa), and like Chahinaz from the Arab World (Bahrain), and more importantly as Chahinaz is so interested interested in the question of women's rights (lawyer), inspiration came naturally.

What did she choose to say to her? Here you will discover...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/the-letter">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>11. An Algerian in Paris</title>
			<description><![CDATA[It's Sunday morning. Chahinaz has a meeting with a few girls in Mordacs, a "disadvantaged" district of Champigny, a Paris suburb. Chahinaz wants to know how life is in France for these women of North African origin. Instinctively she has the feeling that these women should have more freedom than in Algeria. But she's also heard that in France, girls of North African origin, suffer the usual pressures of brothers and the family in general.

Chahinaz has followed very carefully the cases of violence against girls in cities. The high-profile cases of rape have made a great impression on her; and in addition, the case of the veil in France has had a lot of echoes abroad. It's a confusing picture: one day, France is described as the country of freedom and equality and the next day, the suburbs are shown as a terrifying ghettoes...

Chahinaz wants to get a first-hand account herself.<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/an-algerian-in-paris">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/an-algerian-in-paris</link>
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			<title>12. Where is he then - the architect?</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Chahinaz takes advantage of her stay in Paris to meet Marie-France de Saint-Felix. What can a Algerian arcgitecture student and French architect designer of international renown? But it's a meeting without affectation between two liberated women...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/where-is-he-then-the-architect">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/where-is-he-then-the-architect</link>
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			<title>13. An answer from the UN</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The letter Chahinaz wrote has arrived at the UN headquarters in New York. Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa called to speak with Chahinaz in person. She is an important diplomat, but also a Muslim woman. Chazinaz asked: What can the international law do to help in women's rights? What can the UN do? What can Algerian women (and men) do? And what are your priorities as President of the United Nations General Assembly?

Discover her answers... and give yours!<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/an-answer-from-the-un">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/an-answer-from-the-un</link>
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			<title>14. "Because I like it, it belongs to me!"</title>
			<description><![CDATA[France, a paradise for "the Rights of Man"... and of Women? This is what Chahinaz believed before discovering the reality of France. Since it began, the hotline for women victims of domestic violence has been swamped.

Now Chahinaz meets with Christine Delphy - sociologist and researcher at Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and longtime militant feminist - she brings new elements of reflection on the debate...<br /><a href="http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/because-i-like-it-it-belongs-to-me">Watch the video</a>]]></description>
			<category>Women's rights</category>
			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
			<link>http://www.madmundo.tv/en/episodes/because-i-like-it-it-belongs-to-me</link>
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