Orthalia: Episode 6 - Empowering Women

Women's realities are getting harder in South Africa and the effects of colonialism are sky rocketing because of climate change - but women are finding their voices to stand up and be heard.

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Orthalia: Episode 1 - An Introduction to Gender Discrimination
Orthalia Kunene is a mother, activist, feminist and writer based in Soweto. Her journey started as an activist fighting for service delivery issues in Soweto, with an Organisation called Soweto El...
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Orthalia: Episode 2 - Violence on Women
Orthalia illustrates how an increase in temperature also brings about an increase in violence and specifically how it directly impacts women in South Africa.
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Orthalia: Episode 3 - Capitalism and Women
Orthalia examines how climate change is fuelled by the same toxic capitalist system that has put women at the bottom socio-economically with specific regard to the Okavango Delta.
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Orthalia: Episode 4 - Returning Home
Having grown up in a squatter camp Orthalia highlights the kind of issues people are still facing in these unforgiving environments.
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Orthalia: Episode 5: Climate change taking womens lives
Climate related disasters are happening now and as a result they are affecting women now. It is already killing women so it's not a fight for future generations - it's a fight for women who are at t...
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Orthalia: Episode 6 - Empowering Women
Women's realities are getting harder in South Africa and the effects of colonialism are sky rocketing because of climate change - but women are finding their voices to stand up and be heard.
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Orthalia: Episode 7 - The Pink Panther Movement
The Pink Panther Movement and how it supports women who are affected not only by climate change but also the realities of being a women in South Africa and also across the world.
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Orthalia: Episode 8: A Message for all Women
A message of hope for all women across the world where the affects of climate change area lived reality.