BBC 100 Women season returns for 2016
Season will explore women’s stories of defiance, whether the internet is sexist, everyday street harassment and will release fourth annual ‘100 Women’ list The BBC has announced the return of its award-winning annual 100 Women season this autumn, based around a list of 100 inspirational global women and their extraordinary lives, achievements and experiences. Launched in 2013, 100 Women seeks to better represent women in the BBC's international news output. The season kicks off on Monday 21 November starting three weeks of thought-provoking broadcast and online special reports, debates, programmes and journalism, running online at bbc.com/100Women, on BBC World News TV, and on the 29 global languages services of BBC World Service Group, as well as network news. Fiona Crack, Editor of 100 Women season, says: “100 Women is now in its fourth year, and we are proud of the platform it has given to many inspirational women, using the reach and journalistic excellence of the BBC to highlight the challenges, opportunities and experiences of women across the world. Our main limitation is that we can only name 100. “This year I’m particularly looking forward to some of the stories coming from Gaza, Uganda, Nepal and Kazakhstan. We will focus on lots of difficult issues, including trafficking, secondary infertility, domestic abuse, harassment and trolling. We will also explore the inspiring attitudes of women and girls with features about reimagining ‘sexist’ fairy tales, harnessing the power of grandmas and how to plan a wedding for 3,000 in Africa’s most populous city.” The 100 Women list The 100 Women season On BBC World News, Scar will follow two young women recovering from years of self-harm. They meet to compare their roads to recovery and travel to London to meet a woman inspired to open a specialist makeup clinic to help young women conceal their scars and avoid the shocked reaction experienced from colleagues and friends. BBC World News will also air programmes including: No Longer a Goddess, which follows 22 year-old Chanira who visits the young incumbent living goddess in Nepal and ponders how her own early years of living as a goddess has affected her; E-Sports will follow two of the world’s most successful women gamers to the world cup and will show why they are campaigning for safe spaces and female-only tournaments; and Death And Cheerleading will follow a group of inspirational cheerleading grandmothers in Arizona, as they embrace life in their final years. Hackathon Digital highlights throughout the season Girl champions will also highlight how young influential women are using social media in the UK to explore issues around equality, sexuality and fluidity in gender by sharing their stories and material on their social networks as well as the BBC’s Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook sites. Digital video series Live events And at the BBC’s headquarters in London, a live event will give everyone a chance to rediscover some of the unsung achievements of women with a daylong 'edit-a-thon' of a major website. Further details will be announced in due course. Women opinion pieces The 100 Women season is produced and created by the BBC’s 29 language services. Audiences can join the conversation on Twitter using #100women.
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