The witnessess of two HURRARC women rights activists from Sierra Leone

Hawa fights to protect children from genital mutilation, even after having been threatened.

Josephine is involved into the question: she’s a victim.

Shooting and editing: Francesca Gentile

Sights and sounds from Kono district

Eight years after a civil war, this is everyday life in one of the richest diamonds mines area.

A preview of Francesca Gentile’s documentary on Sierra Leone. Shooting on February 2010 following the activities of Hurrarc NGO around the country.

Sierra Leone fragments from Francesca Gentile on Vimeo.

Sahr GMP Fania, executive director, introduce the activities of Hurrarc NGO Sierra Leone.

GWIDA – Gbogboafeh Women’s Integrated Development Association is a HURRARC CO-GENDER Commission branch in KONO.

A video by Piero Ferraris with thirty ink drawings, coloured with pastels, by Raffaele Palma

Thousands of women and girls die every year in Sierra Leone as a result of treatable complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

According to Amnesty International these deaths are not natural or inevitable, but preventable and unacceptable. This is not just a health emergency; it is a human rights scandal.

Amnesty International has published, on September 2009, a report on maternal mortality as a human rights issue. The report Out of Reach: The Cost of Maternal Health in Sierra Leone is downloadable from Amnesty International website.

Watch the video of Amnesty International about maternal mortality

The video about the extreme flooding in Kroo Bay, the biggest slum in Freetown, was produced in August by the Canadian journalist Allison Cross.
Allison website: www.theallisoncross.com