Pambazuka News

Global: New film series takes on culture of silence on violence against women

2008-04-18

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/wgender/47486

Fourteen years ago, in April 1994, news got out that ethnic violence in Kigali was spreading throughout Rwanda. Violence against women is the theme of Women on the Frontline, a series of seven films being broadcast for the first time on the 18th of April by BBC World at 1930 GMT to about 300 million households to help peel away the silence surrounding the brutality of gender-based violence that crosses all borders.