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Shadowline Films Presents
it’s a irl Film Screening & Discussion Thursday, April 18th, 2013 6 pm - 8:30 pm Harper Memorial Library Room 140 1116 E. 59th Street
The United Nations has estimated that as many as 200 million girls have gone “missing” In India and China, where sons are valued and daughters are burdens, millions of babies are killed, abandoned or selectively aborted, simply because they are girls. The result of longstanding traditions and governmental policies, this devaluation of females has led to rampant violence against women and a growing female “gendercide”. This screening is part of the IT’S A GIRL INTERNATIONAL TOUR www.itsagirlmovie.com Facebook.com/ItsaGirlMovie
Post-film discussion led by Professor Sital Kalantry Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Law School where she founded and is director of the International Human Rights clinic. She has extensive experience using litigation and non-litigation strategies to promote international human rights, particularly women's rights and economic, social, and cultural rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HUMANRIGHTS.UCHICAGO.EDU
it’s a irl Film Screening & Discussion Thursday, April 18th, 2013 6 pm - 8:30 pm Harper Memorial Library Room 140 1116 E. 59th Street
The United Nations has estimated that as many as 200 million girls have gone “missing” In India and China, where sons are valued and daughters are burdens, millions of babies are killed, abandoned or selectively aborted, simply because they are girls. The result of longstanding traditions and governmental policies, this devaluation of females has led to rampant violence against women and a growing female “gendercide”. This screening is part of the IT’S A GIRL INTERNATIONAL TOUR www.itsagirlmovie.com Facebook.com/ItsaGirlMovie
Post-film discussion led by Professor Sital Kalantry Sital Kalantry is a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago Law School where she founded and is director of the International Human Rights clinic. She has extensive experience using litigation and non-litigation strategies to promote international human rights, particularly women's rights and economic, social, and cultural rights.
HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO HUMANRIGHTS.UCHICAGO.EDU
