Special Event: Film Screening of "Half the Sky"

Date and Time

March 25, 2016
07:00PM - 09:00PM EDT

Location

Harvard Hall, Room 201

"Half the Sky"

Co-sponsored by Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA).

Description:

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, a documentary film and national broadcast event inspired by the widely acclaimed book of the same name by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.

Filmed in 10 countries, the series follows Nicholas Kristof and celebrity activists America Ferrera, Diane Lane, Eva Mendes, Meg Ryan, Gabrielle Union and Olivia Wilde on a journey to tell the stories of inspiring, courageous individuals. Across the globe, oppression is being confronted, and real meaningful solutions are being fashioned through health care, education, and economic empowerment for women and girls.

The linked problems of sex trafficking and forced prostitution, gender-based violence, and maternal mortality - which needlessly claim one woman every 90 seconds - present to us the single most vital opportunity of our time: the opportunity to make a change. All over the world women are seizing this opportunity.

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