WUNRN
On
this International Migrants Day 2014, we as women see many different dynamics
in this world regarding migration – and challenges for migrant women and girls.
This WUNRN release covers the spectrum from the High Level UN Convention on
Migrant Workers and Their Families, to the grass roots realities of women
migrants on the journey of high risk from Central America to the USA. We see
their faces, their tears, their determination…
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International
UN Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers & Their Families
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ProfessionalInterest/Pages/CMW.aspx
Status
of Ratification of This Convention – Map of Countries:
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Women Make Movies - WMM
MIGRANT ILLEGAL WOMEN RISK DANGERS, LIVES - CENTRAL AMERICA TO MEXICO TO US - FILM
Film Segment:
Maria
in Nobody's Land
A
film by Marcela
Zamora Chamorro
Spanish,
Subtitled in English
MARIA
IN NOBODY’S LAND is an unprecedented and intimate look at the illegal and
extremely dangerous journey of three Salvadoran women to the United States,
through Mexican territory. Doña Inés, a 60 year old woman, has been looking for
her daughter for five years and is following the same route her daughter took
while crossing Mexico en route to the United States. Marta and Sandra, tired of
the violence from their husbands and wanting to overcome poverty, decide to
leave their families behind to travel to America - with only thirty dollars in
their pockets. During their harrowing journey, the three women encounter
prostitution, slave trade, rape, kidnap and even death, all in an unwavering
quest for a better life.