Courage Chronicles

Courage Chronicles presents filmed oral histories of women who placed empowerment and sexual and reproductive and health and rights at the center of governments’ commitments at the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt in 1994, and the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China in 1995.

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Featured Quotations

We have excerpted highlights from each narrator’s interview. Please click on QUOTATIONS to read their insightful and inspiring words.

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Timelines

These timelines are compiled from each narrator’s interview, or our research, and highlight key events or moments in their lives or work. Viewable individually or together, they provide important insight into the phenomenal growth of movements for democracy and/or women’s rights in each narrator’s country in the 20th century; the development of the SRHR paradigm and critique of over-consumption; and the strategies they employed to succeed in transforming policy.

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Oral History Collection

Courage Chronicles presents filmed oral histories of the women who placed empowerment and sexual and reproductive and health and rights at the center of governments’ commitments at the UN International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994.

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