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Videos
Produced by ASK for Human rights education and campaigns |
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Women & War Director: Tareque & Catherine Masud Production: ASK and Audio Vision Length: 25 minutes System: PAL Year: 2000 Price: Tk. 500.00 |
Bangladesh emerged as a nation state from the war of liberation in 1971. During this period the Pakistani army and their collaborators perpetrated genocide against the civilian population, raped women, burnt homes, and destroyed many places. While many of these stories have been told repeatedly, the details of the stories of women-in towns and villages, from different communities- who suffered rape, who fought back, who survived the brutal violence by the military is now presented in this documentary, perhaps for the first time.
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In The Name Of Safety Producer: TVE/ASK Length: 26 minutes Language: English System: PAL Year: 1999 Price: Tk. 500.00 |
Women and children survivors of violence, such as rape or trafficking, or others who may be lost, were frequently kept in “safe” custody in jails in Bangladesh. One such case of a girl in safe custody led to her death in custody. Violence is also not uncommon in custodial institutions. ASK campaigned against this practice and helped to release many victims from jail. Based on real life stories of several women and children, who were released from jail custody, this film uses some real life footage to show conditions in jail. It provides a strong argument against the practice. Under the Suppression of Violence against Women and Children Act (2000), women and children are not to be kept in jail safe custody but in special institutions. ASK's campaign continues to campaign for women's choice to use safe custody facilities.
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The story line features the incidents of fatwas issued by village Imams or village leaders that instigated violence against women. Resistance from the women's movements to these disparate incidents is related within a political social context of religious orthodoxy/customary practice as well as to its challenge from the movement for women's rights.
Title: Grahan Kal
Length: 38.20 minutes
Language: Bangla sub-title
System: PAL
Year: 1994
Price: Tk. 500.00
Description: Same as above
Title: Ekti Shadharon Meyer Galpa
Length: 25 minutes
Language: Bangla
System: PAL
Year: 1997
Price: Tk. 500.00
Description:
The film illustrates the problems in relations within the family, which emerge as a result of under age marriage. The film was made as a training tool to demonstrate that marriage below 18 years is illegal and should not be observed.
Title: Nari Nirjatan Annya Drishtitay
Length: 18 minutes
Language: Bangla
System: PAL
Year: 1997
Price: Tk. 500.00
Description:
What does a victim do when she is raped? The emotional trauma and the social stigma attached to rape discourage survivors from seeking justice or punishment for the crime of rape. The customary practice is to treat this as a dispute, which can be mediated. In the film the family of the accused seeks a settlement in which the rapist will marry the victim. But it argues against such quick remedies that ultimately lead to another form of injustice. This film is used for training on violence against women.