WITNESS trains and supports grassroots human rights groups to use video in their advocacy campaigns. This presentation will feature excerpts from recent works from WITNESS's human rights partner organizations around the world-including BOOKS NOT BARS, on the growth of the prison industry in the U.S., and NO PLACE TO GO, on villagers driven from their homes by the Burmese military-as well as a discussion of WITNESS's pioneering strategies for using video in human rights work. It will also include a special presentation of the 45-minute documentary OPERATION FINE GIRL: Rape Used as a Weapon of War in Sierra Leone. Directed and produced by Lilibet Foster, who worked with Sierra Leonean activist and WITNESS partner Binta Mansaray, OPERATION FINE GIRL investigates the strategic use of rape against women during the decade-long war in Sierra Leone. Told through the personal stories of three young girls who were abducted to be "rebel wives" and sex slaves, the film is an intimate story about some of the women the war has affected.

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