‘Jorge was my only son, he meant everything to me. He and his pregnant wife were taken from their home in handcuffs with bags over their heads.’
Delia de Califano from Argentina has never seen her son or daughter-in-law after the event she describes. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina was ruled by the junta. Those who disagreed with the military dictatorship were kidnapped and tortured. Children of opposition members were given away to childless military families.
For more than 30 years Delia hasn’t lost hope to find her grandson. Those women, whose kids were kidnapped back then created a group and became known as mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Mostly being 80+, they are still looking for their children.
Their stories are in the documentary Argentina’s Stolen Children.
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‘Jorge was my only son, he meant everything to me. He and his pregnant wife were taken from their home in handcuffs with bags over their heads.’
Delia de Califano from Argentina has never seen her son or daughter-in-law after the event she describes. From 1976 to 1983 Argentina was ruled by the junta. Those who disagreed with the military dictatorship were kidnapped and tortured. Children of opposition members were given away to childless military families.
For more than 30 years Delia hasn’t lost hope to find her grandson. Those women, whose kids were kidnapped back then created a group and became known as mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Mostly being 80+, they are still looking for their children.
Their stories are in the documentary Argentina’s Stolen Children.
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This teenage boy is really a 33 year-old man. Denis Vashurin, from Russia’s Pacific Coast, didn’t produce enough growth hormones as a child, and so his body isn’t fully grown. To find out what it’s like to be a man trapped in a child’s body, check out our video.
Would you want to look young all your life? To find out more about this unique life story, watch the film Eternal Boy.
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Two years ago, the World Health Organisation excluded being transgender from the list of mental disorders. But is it the real salvation? In most cases, psychological problems are not being solved by changing sex.
A character in our film, Walt Heyer, says, '40% of people attempting suicide are people who regret ever-changing genders'.
Walt was suffering from gender dysphoria, the feeling of being uncomfortable with his original sex. Doctors insisted a sex transition would be the solution, but it didn't help. Changing the gender did not solve the internal problems but only made them stronger.
Watch our video to see why Walt didn't overcome gender identification problems by changing sex. You can learn more about transgender people who regretted changing sex in our documentary film I Want My Sex Back.
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‘As soon as you notice the change, when you’re lighter after using cream, you feel more beautiful’, these are the words of a black Senegalese woman Khuja, who bleaches her skin.
Many Senegalese women use skin whitening cream. They think they look prettier that way. But this procedure is hazardous, and it can lead to several terrible diseases. However, this does not stop women.
Doctors are calling for a ban on the import of brightening creams into the country. But the cosmetic business brings in billions of dollars, and no one wants to give up such profits.
See more about these women in the video and our film Beauty and the Bleach.
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‘It’s a real NATO group. Soldiers from America, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, and Latvia. These instructors lived here! They trained Ukrainian soldiers to conform to NATO standards.’
Daniil Martynov is fighting in the Russian special operation as one of the commanders of Chechen divisions. He has vast experience, taking part in many significant combat operations. Daniil claims there are large quantities of drugs and NATO equipment at every captured Ukrainian checkpoint.
According to the commander, Kiev’s nationalist propaganda puts a lot of pressure on Ukrainian soldiers to enter the battlefield: ‘We captured soldiers and interrogated them... They all say: ‘You know, it was drummed into us that you are the enemy. That you want to destroy us, wipe us out completely’.
Daniil Martynov is a subject in the film 'We’re Fighting the World’s Evil'about the Russian special operation in Ukraine.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
— Haim Ginott –
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How Ukrainian schoolchildren are instilled with Nazi ideology
A textbook titled 'Defence of the Motherland' was found in one of the schools in Mariupol. It was published in 2018 under the patronage of the SBU and was given to high school students. The textbook describes the mining of public places, biological weapons, and how to handle grenades, RPGs and Kalashnikovs. The book also explains to teenagers the advantages of NATO and how dangerous Russia is for Ukraine.
Several chapters are devoted to warfare. Teenagers were told how to fire, act as part of a combat team and provide first aid if wounded during a fight. In addition, illustrations explain how NATO troops defend and attack.
And that’s not all there is to say about education in Ukraine. See our documentary film Fast Forward to Fascism to find out how children are being taught a distorted version of history.
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According to the deputy regional director of UNICEF, Rania Dagash, 386,000 children in Somalia need treatment due to malnutrition caused by a long drought and the lack of humanitarian aid.
Experts say the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-Russian sanctions have caused difficulties in helping people. For example, about 92% of Somalia’s wheat needs came from Ukraine and Russia, but now supply chains are disrupted, said Rania Dagash.
But the main reason is drought linked with global climate change. Today’s most suffer from freshwater shortages, and more frequent droughts regions are Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Droughts are just a part of a global water crisis. Watch the documentary No Way Back: Water to learn more about what’s happening to the water cycle and our planet’s water resources.
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‘I told them it isn’t for me, but they didn’t believe me. They kept beating me. They fed me very poorly.’
This Indian girl was held as a sex slave for a year. She left home to get some money for her brothers to get an education, but it ended badly for her. In India, these kinds of stories are common. Children are often kidnapped and sold into slavery.
Today is International Missing Children’s Day, that’s why we want to show you this poor Indian girl’s story. Watch the clip to know what horror she has gone through.
Find more stories like this in the documentary Lost Kids.
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