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Screening of Killer's Paradise

University of Toronto International Health Program host the screening of Killer's Paradise released in 2006 by the NFB and the BBC.

When: Thursday March 22, 6:30-8pm
Where: Leslie Dan Pharmacy Building
144 College St.,
Apotex Theatre B250
Toronto, Canada

Admission is by donation. Proceeds will go to the Panzi Hospital Campaign, a fistula hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which helps women who have survived rape as a weapon of war. Visit http://www.medicalreform.ca/congo

About the film

Since 1999 more than two thousand women have been murdered in Guatemala, with the numbers escalating every year. Yet, lawmakers and government officials continue to turn a blind eye. Powerful and uncompromising, Killer's Paradise uncovers one of the most emotionally-wrenching hidden human rights abuses taking place, while exposing the impunity allowed by an inept judicial system. With its history of almost four decades of civil war,

Guatemala is a troubled society but it can also be seen as a microcosm of the pervasive violence and injustice against women that exists in the world
today.
...

Starts03/22/2007
Ends06/22/2007
IssuesCriminal Justice, Family & Society, Gender/Women, Health/Health Advocacy, Human Rights, International, Politics/Government, Poverty, Welfare, Equal Opportunities, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Harrassment, Violence against women, Women's Health, South America, Legal Reform, Peace/War
Homepagewww.nfb.ca
Contactb.au@sympatico.ca

Posted on March 27, 2007 in Film / Screening by billie