The second of two panel discussions taking place during WLP's conference, 2020 Vision: Mobilizing for Women's Rights and Ending Violence Against Women.
Destination America is a four-part documentary series produced by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting about what has driven men and women from all over the world to immigrate to America for centuries — economic opportunity, religious freedom and artistic expression. Breaking Free: A Woman's Journey, is the fourth and final episode in the series, and focuses on the particular social and political forces that drive women's emigration to America.
This short segment of the longer documentary series Destination America explores the situation of women in Iran in the second half of the twentieth century through the journeys of three women -- Ferdows Naficy and her daughters Mahnaz Afkhami and Farah Ebrahimi.