15 December 1999

Third part of footage from the Women's Caucus Sag Harbor retreat in 1999. There is a discussion about the preparation of a training manual. Rashida Manjoo describes a multimedia approach to disseminate information about violence against women, used during a government-sponsored campaign in South Africa. The group talks about the primary audiences of the manual and what content it should include. The footage changes to black and white. Pam Spees describes a training video she saw that was designed to assure people appearing witnesses in court that they will be safe, but featured only men. The video returns to color as Eleanor Conda summarizes the day's discussions. Videotape cuts to interviews with Alda Facio, Marina Meshki, and Tulika Srivastava. Alda Facio, from the UN Latin American Institute for Crime Prevention, talks about her history of work on feminist issues. She was one of the founders of the Women's Caucus. She talks about the challenges of lobbying for a better ICC. Marina Meshki, head of the Women's Study Group at the Georgian Lawyers Association, talks about how she became involved in the ICC process, and the importance of having crimes against women included in the statute. After b-roll of Women's Caucus members preparing and eating dinner (footage is dark), Tulika Srivastava talks about a case she is involved in, in which a women's organization in Uttar Pradesh is being persecuted for trying to help a woman and her children escape sexual abuse by her husband.