This lightning session will focus on inclusion, rights and choices shared through a unique spoken word performance, TED talks and storytelling. At the same time in the Pamoja Zone, join a Community Conversation on SRHR and women's and youth empowerment (16:00) and a conversation on Fistula and Female Genital Mutilation (French and English 16:45) in the Community Corner.
Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary (Short Subject), Saving Face tells the story of plastic surgeon Dr. Mohammad Jawad who left his prominent London practice to return to his home country and help the victims of acid attacks. Two of these women, Zakia and Rukhsana, are victims of brutal acid attacks by their husbands and in Rukhsana’s case, her in-laws as well. Both attempt to bring their assailants to justice and move on with their lives with the help of NGOs, sympathetic policymakers, politicians, support groups with other acid attack victims and Dr. Jawad. Saving Face also depicts a Pakistan that is changing - one where ordinary people can stand up and make a difference and where marginalized communities can seek justice.
The screening will be followed by a Q & A session with Dr. Mohammad Jawad, pioneering Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive, and Burns Surgeon
Documentary/Pakistan/English/Urdu/40 minutes/2012
Director: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Daniel Junge
Producer: HBO Films
Member States & Other Stakeholders Commitment Statements
With introduction by Her Excellency Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, Minister of Health, Congo Brazzaville
This movie was made in Congo a few weeks ago by a talented team of documentary film makers.
It features the life experiences of a pregnant woman who had to deliver her first child in the forest alone, the mission of traditional birth attendants, but also the challenges and needs that midwives and doctors in a rural public hospital and a private clinic have to improve the quality of their work and provide better services.
The film also exposes the challenges that indigenous women particularly face during pregnancy and at child birth: remote health facilities, financial barriers, lack of quality of care, insufficient skilled staff availability, and scarce referral means, as well as experiencing an unfamiliar westernized environment with language and cultural barriers, stigma and even discrimination.
This movie is about two worlds dedicated to improve maternal health but that would require working together and learning from each other to better serve and save the lives of Bantou and indigenous women and newborns.
Documentary/Congo/French (English subtitles)/15 minutes/2019
What can people of different generations and diverse backgrounds learn from each other as we advance from Cairo to Nairobi? This vibrant dialogue is an avenue for participants of all generations to engage as equals in an inclusive and creative discussion about what lies at the heart of ICPD, and how priorities have evolved in the last 25 years.
Although substantial progress has been made in sexual and reproductive health and rights law, legal and human rights barriers continue to impede access to services and increase women’s and girls’ vulnerability. Legal and policy advocates must play a major role in enhancing access to these health services and fulfilment of these rights, particularly as part of advancing universal health coverage. This session will take a look at three national-level case studies that explore the connections between enabling legal and policy environments and access to services, information and support for women and girls, with the ultimate objective of helping participants advance their own efforts to promote and protect full health and human rights for all and give voice to those most affected by legal and policy barriers to SRHR.
