Child Rights, Education, Human Rights, International Day, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo the traditional Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high school. Ntaiya tells the fearless story of continuing on to college, and of working with her village elders to...
Child Rights, Education, International Day, Literacy, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Imagine a country where girls must sneak out to go to school, with deadly consequences if they get caught learning. This was Afghanistan under the Taliban, and traces of that danger remain today. 22-year-old Shabana Basij-Rasikh runs a school for girls in Afghanistan....
Child Rights, Education, International Day, Medium < 30m, TED, Video
Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has two powerful stories to tell — of her own life’s transformation, and of the untapped potential of girls around the world. Can we transform the world by unlocking the greatness of...
Disease, Documentary, Health, International Day, Medium < 30m, Video
Natalie Skipper survived multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, but not before it flipped her life upside down. We weave together Natalie’s story – which took place in Nashville, Tennessee – with a global perspective on the pervasive threat posed by TB around the...
Child Labour, Documentary, Freedom, Human Rights, International Day, Medium < 30m, Racism, Slave Labour
Seventy years ago, allied forces marched into the camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, putting an end to the cruel atrocities committed by the Nazis. Unprecedented in human history, more than a million inmates – primarily Jews – were systematically killed. This...
Biodiversity, Business, Climate Change, Documentary, Food & Cuisine, International Day, Medium < 30m, Sustainability, Video
Unbroken Ground explains the critical role food will play in the next frontier of our efforts to solve the environmental crisis. It explores four areas of agriculture that aim to change our relationship to the land and oceans. Most of our food is produced using...
Child Labour, Child Rights, Freedom, Human Rights, International Day, Labour Rights, Medium < 30m, Poverty, Slave Labour, TED, Video
Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images — miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal — that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved...
Discrimination, Gender Equality, Human Rights, Medium < 30m, Society, TED
We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much … to be successful, but not too successful, or they’ll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks...
Fairtrade, Food & Cuisine, International Trade, Medium < 30m
‘Fairtrade Matters’, is a glimpse into the lives of two Malawian tea farmers. Putting a face to the people that make the products we consume.Looking at the everyday challenges they face and the difference Fairtrade makes to their lives. Shot in southern...
Age, Child Rights, Citizenship, Civil Society, Democracy, Disability, Diversity, Documentary, Family, Freedom, Gender Equality, Gender Identity, Global Citizenship, History & Heritage, Human Rights, Literacy, Medium < 30m, Peace, Racism, Society, Volunteering
Berets, badges, Black Lives Matter and social justice: the youth group for activist girls of colour The Radical Monarchs is an alternative to the Scout movement for girls of colour in Oakland, California. Its members earn badges not for sewing or selling cookies, but...
