NAIROBI: An Award-winning British film about witch-hunts in Zambia could play an important role in curbing violence against women if translated into local languages and distributed widely, according to human rights campaigners. The film ?I Am Not A Witch? - which tells the story of an eight-year-old Zambian girl accused of being a witch - was named the most outstanding debut film on Sunday at Britain´s top film awards, the BAFTAs. ?Millions of women and girls in countries ranging from India and Pakistan to Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria are still branded witches - often by their relatives or neighbours - in a bid to usurp their land or inheritance, say campaigners. In many cases, victims are elderly widowed women who are humiliated, beaten, stripped and ostracised from their communities.
02-21-2018, 01:41 PM
Award-winning UK film on witch-hunts to curb attacks on women
العرض الشجري