On July 11th in Athens, Greece, GGM held a celebration of its work on the project CARE-Community Based Prevention of GBV In Italy and Greece,
held in partnership with International Rescue Committee (IRC) Hellas and Italy, Caritas Hellas, Global Girl Media Greece and Centro Penc, Palermo.The project started in February 2023 and was completed in July, 2024. It’s purpose was to empower participants through various actions and
means, such as psychosocial groups for women, strengthening male allies, media training and documentaries as a tool for awareness and mobilization, training of women as GBV prevention focal points in their communities, as well as recreational and physical activities aimed at supporting women with simultaneous activities for their children. The event in Athens was a culmination and public sharing of all the outcomes. Project leaders, facilitators and members from refugee and migrant communities in Athens, who were trained as focal points for GBV prevention, contributed to the discussion sharing their experiences. We also screened three short documentaries on gender-based violence, created by women who participated in the film and media workshops held in Greece and Italy. The documentaries covered topics such as slut-shaming and gender-based violence against Ukrainian refugee women in Greece. There was also be a Q&A session with the creators.
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ESCAPE TO JUSTICE
A searing account of one young refugee woman’s harrowing sexual assault by her smuggler, which inspired her to draw, paint, and eventually find the strength to speak out about the abuse and neglect of women on the move, even from the police and NGO’s who are supposedly there to help.
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WAITING IN AN ENDLESS LINE
This video details the life of every refugee in stark black and white: an endless line of waiting. Also features an original song sung by one of our Globalgirls, originally from Afghanistan, now living in Greece.
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GGM GREECE WINS GRACIE AWARD!
We are so honored to announce that our Greek chapter’s documentary short film “Escape to Justice” is among the winners of 47th Annual Gracie Awards. Congratulations to the film’s team of producer/directors/editors:
Eli Fazlohah
Sude Faslohah
Andriana Theochari
Eleni Spyrou
Sara Pata
We want to congratulate all the inspirational women and their remarkable projects that were awarded, and look forward to the award ceremony in New York City in June!
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FREEDOM
What is Freedom, how do you get, it keep it? Interviews with migrants, refugees and Greek citizens in the streets of Athens proves freedom to be a strange and complex feeling. The video was produced by GlobalGirl Media Greece, a project in partnership with The Melissa Network and iMEdD, a journalism incubator in Athens, Greece is a social justice, media and journalism program that promotes the voice of women and girls.
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I WANT TO LIVE: HAMID’S STORY
A boat of refugees land on the island of Zakynthos. Globaligirl was there to capture the day they arrived. Hamid, from Afghanistan was one of them.
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Global Girl Media Greece at the Athens WOW Women’s Festival!
For the second year in a row, GGM Greece is participating in the Athens WOW Women’s Festival, 2024 held at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center. GGM Greece produced four videos of women’s stories that highlight dedication, courage and resilience. Four true stories that focus on a different background each time: a female member of the Greek Muslim Roma community of Thrace, a mother of an LGBTI+ child, a refugee and survivor of gender-based violence, and a filmmaker empowering young female activists through digital media education. The aim is through these stories is to strengthen the voices of women from all walks of life, offering the public the opportunity to hear first-hand people they would not meet in their everyday lives talking about sensitive issues, about paths of personal development that inspire, for the transformative power of solidarity. https://www.snfcc.org/WOWStories
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FREEDOM
What is Freedom, how do you get, it keep it? Interviews with migrants, refugees and Greek citizens in the streets of Athens proves freedom to be a strange and complex feeling. The video was produced by GlobalGirl Media Greece, a project in partnership with The Melissa Network and iMEdD, a journalism incubator in Athens, Greece is a social justice, media and journalism program that promotes the voice of women and girls.
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ANOTHER PALERMO
A look at the city of Palermo, Sicily through the eyes of eight young migrant girls, either born to foreign parents or recently arrived in the city. A fresh look at the subtle ways racism and sexism intersect and when you’re young, how to deal.This video was produced by Global Girl Media as part of a video training in Athens, funded by CARE-Community Based Prevention of GBV In Italy and Greece, the IRC, Centro-Penc, and Caritas Hellas, Co-Funded by the European Union.
