In 2003, when Peggy Elliott Goldwyn joined the American board of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), very few people in the U.S. knew that the UN had an agency devoted to reproductive health care and women’s rights. It was her task to change this—but how? As a writer and producer for motion pictures and television, Goldwyn wanted to use film to tell personal stories about the difficulties faced by women around the world, but it wasn’t until Judy and Richard Smooke invited her to a multi-faceted event focused on the genocide in Darfur that her ideas crystallized.
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