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Alia Arasoughly speaks about the proliferation of independent news media outlets and what that means for Palestinian women, the importance of using mass media tools like television to reach a broad audience with messages about women's rights and gender equality, and specific cultural barriers faced by women who wish to work in television and film production. 

Enas al-Shafie, WLP Egypt/Forum for Women in Development (FWID), discusses the Egyptian government's increasingly restrictive practices against non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and describes cooperation between different NGOs to provide aid to Lebanon in the wake of the 2006 Lebanon War.

Part of a series of interviews focusing on best practices for activists and human rights organizations with speakers and panelists of WLP's "2020 Vision" event, itself part of the 2010 annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York City.