BORN INTO BROTHELS
COMPANION CURRICULUM

BORN INTO BROTHELS COMPANION CURRICULUM

DIRECTED BY

ZANA BRISKI

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION PROGRAM

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
THE HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION PROGRAM AT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THE FOLLOWING CONTRIBUTORS OF THIS CURRICULUM GUIDE. WITHOUT THEIR DEDICATION, HARD WORK AND PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO THE ISSUES THAT EMANATE FROM THE FILM, THIS GUIDE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE.

WRITERS

CLARE GARVIE SHEETAL KHEMCHANDANI HEATHER SHPIRO

EDITORS

CLARE GARVIE SHEETAL KHEMCHANDANI MELISSA ROBINSON

CONTRIBUTORS

KIM ALLEN MARY ARCHER ADDIE BOSTON REBECCA CATRON SAMANTHA LEE SONAM DOLKER EMILY LESSER KAREN ROBINSON MELISSA ROBINSON

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION FROM THE FILMMAKER | 4 FROM THE EDITORS | 5 MOVIE DISCUSSION GUIDE | 7 LESSON 1 PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY | 9 APPENDIX 1 – Handouts | 18 THE TRANSORMATIVE POWER OF ART | 23 APPENDIX 2 – Handouts | 32 DISCRIMINATION AND THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION | 49 APPENDIX 3 – Handouts | 54 FILM CLIPS | 61 GLOSSARY OF TERMS | 63 OPTIONAL TEACHER RESOURCE 1 – Red Light Districts around the World | 65 OPTIONAL TEACHER RESOURCE 2 – Q&A about the Calcutta Red Light District | 68 OPTIONAL TEACHER RESOURCE 3 – Fact Sheet on Internally Displaced Peoples and Refugees | 70 OPTIONAL TEACHER RESOURCE 4 – Timeline of Conflict in Bosnia/Herzegovina | 72

LESSON 2

LESSON 3

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

RESOURCE STRENGTHENING

FEEDBACK FORM | 74

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FROM THE FILMMAKER
ZANA BRISKI When I first went to the brothels of Calcutta I had no idea what I was doing. Circumstances had led me there and I had a deep visceral reaction to the place. It was as if I recognized it on a very personal level. It took me two years to get inside, to be able to live in a brothel. I knew this was the only way I would move from visitor