*The New York Times Reports on Tunisia's Truth and Dignity Commission* *"Tunisia has embarked on a bold and painful experiment, gathering testimony from victims of six decades of abuses under two dictatorships before its revolution four years ago led to a still-fledgling democracy. Already, thousands have arrived to lodge complaints at the country’s Truth and Dignity Commission, which is scheduled to begin public hearings in June with the goal of exposing the violations, making reparations and holding the abusers accountable in a search for national reconciliation.* *Women were tortured as brutally as men were. But they suffered an added stigma — that of rape and sexual assault. Such abuse was used as a systematic and institutionalized form of torture, often directed at women for no reason other than that they were married or related to a member of the opposition." —Carlotta Gall, The New York Times, http://nyti.ms/1FQcQ9L <http://nyti.ms/1FQcQ9L>* Hajer Ben Nasr's documentary* TUNISIAN WOMEN: WE WILL STAND UP* features interviews with seven women activists who for decades denounced the brutality of both the Bourguiba's and Ben Ali's regimes: - Journalist and human rights activist Om Zied - Political leader Maya Jribi - Human rights lawyer Radhia Nasraoui - Professor and writer Zeineb Cherni - Lawyer and community activist Saida Garrach - Singer Amel Hamrouni - President of the Association of Mothers of Victims of the Counterterrorism Law, Zeineb Chelbi Winner of the Grand Prix at the Khouribga International Documentary Film Festival in Morocco, *TUNISIAN WOMEN* is a powerful record of the work of women activist in Tunisia and a celebration of Tunisia's extraordinary history of activism and resistance against authoritarian rule since the 1970s. READ MORE: http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=1369&card=price VIEW TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsROY0-Ydp0 HOW TO ORDER: Online: www.twn.org Email: [log in to unmask] Fax: (212) 594-6417 Mail: Third World Newsreel, 545 8th Avenue, Suite 550, New York, NY 10018 Phone: (212) 947-9277 ext. 10 TWN is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the creation, appreciation, and dissemination of independent media by and about people of color. Visit twn.org. ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu