Birthrights – Right to life Guatemala
AlJazeeraEnglish | Apr 11, 2011 | 301 views
Today, illegal abortions are the leading cause of death among young women in Latin America. Whether they are performed in major cities or in the isolated countryside, these ‘back room’ abortions are leaving thousands of young women dead each year. Guatemala has the highest fertility rate among women and yet it remains the poorest country in the region where women can ill afford large families. Unwanted pregnancies, couple with the forces of tradition and politics, leave few options for these families. Through the work of an activist and the medical team she leads, this film explores the questions of family planning, which many see as the right to life.
South Africa’s ‘ticking time bomb’
AlJazeeraEnglish | Apr 11, 2011 | 2,196 views
Rising unemployment in South Africa is spelling disaster for the country’s black population.
A latest study claims more than half of black youths do not have a job, a situation which the government calls a “ticking time bomb”.
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull reports from Johannesburg
Russia celebrates conquest of space
AlJazeeraEnglish | Apr 11, 2011 | 748 views
At 0907 Moscow time on April 12, 1961 Gagarin uttered the famous words “Let’s Go” as the Vostok rocket, with him squeezed into a tiny capsule at the top, blasted off from the south of the Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.
After a voyage lasting just 108 minutes that granted the 27-year-old carpenter’s son historical immortality, Gagarin ejected from his capsule and parachuted down into a field in the Saratov region of central Russia.
From that moment on, his life, and the course of modern space exploration, would never be the same again.
Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker reports.
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