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Statement and Call to Action by WACC on International Women’s Day, 2010 |
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Montag, 08. März 2010 um 10:17 |
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| | ‘Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all’ is the global United Nations theme for this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD).
Since 1911, the IWD has been a day to celebrate achievements in women’s empowerment. It has also been a day to reflect on women’s struggles and the structural barriers that continue to impede women’s progress. |
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IFJ demands more action to strengthen rights of women in media |
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Freitag, 05. März 2010 um 10:24 |
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Press release
| | March 05, 2010: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on media owners to take steps to raise women's profile in the news, both as professionals and as news topics.
The IFJ says too few women have so far reached leadership positions in media houses. An IFJ survey covering the Middle East and the Arab World to be released on 8 March in Bahrain found that despite scores of universities and journalism schools female graduates, women continue to lag behind men in the region with regard to access to leading roles in the newsroom and in the unions. |
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What happened to Section J? Gender equality in the World’s Media |
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Mittwoch, 03. März 2010 um 10:23 |
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By Sarah Macharia, Programme Manager for Media and Gender Justice, WACC 
| | New York, March 2, 2010: ‘There is a gender angle to every story’ is one of several arguments underscored at an animated panel discussion and open debate during which the preliminary report of the Fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP 2010) was launched.
The event took place in New York on the occasion of the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Moderated by Ms. Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director of UNIFEM, the panel was one of a handful during the CSW parallel sessions focussing specifically on ‘women and the media ‘ – Section ‘J’ of the Beijing Platform for Action. As such, the event was highly anticipated by participants for whom Section ‘J’ remains a crucial concern in spite of the dwindling interest shown in this theme by international policy makers.
| | Ms. Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director of UNIFEM | | |
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Who Makes the News in 2010? |
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Montag, 01. März 2010 um 08:00 |
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Preliminary report of the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project
| | Only 24% of persons seen, heard, or read about in the news are female.
This is one of the key findings of the 2010 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The preliminary report is being released on 2 March 2010 at a panel discussion and debate on the occasion of the 54th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York. |
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UNESCO launches Women Make the News 2010 |
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Montag, 01. März 2010 um 03:00 |
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| | On this occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), UNESCO join forces with international and regional media organizations to launch the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. Under the theme, “Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best practices for gender perspective in media and in media content”, WMN 2010 is intended to initiate a global exchange on the importance and the need for gender sensitive indicators for media organizations.
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Portrait of vanishing Turkey wins two awards at Berlin film festival |
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Dienstag, 23. Februar 2010 um 11:30 |
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| The Ecumenical Jury at the 60th Berlinale awarded its Competition prize to Bal (Honey) directed by Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey/Germany, 2010). The International Jury also gave the film its coveted Golden Bear.
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A splendid portrait of the poet as a young child, Bal tells the story of the blossoming of the sensibility in a rural boy, Yusuf, living in the highlands of northeast Turkey. Immersed in a forest of overwhelming beauty, Yusuf´s life points to a connection with nature that provides not only material subsistence but spiritual learning, highlighting issues such as family love and involvement in the community. Bal invites us to go deeper into this forest, on a journey that mirrors the human soul seeking the ideals and people with whom we want to
share life.
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Changing Leadership in WACC |
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Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2010 um 11:14 |
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 | | Randy Naylor, General Secretary of the World Association for Christian Communication has resigned from his position as of October 31st, 2010. In his letter to the President of WACC, Dennis Smith, Randy said: “I have been involved in the World Association for Christian Communication in one way or another since 1983. During that time I have been entrusted with many different roles and responsibilities. |
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WACC’s summary report on Haiti |
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Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 um 15:23 |
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| | In response to the earthquake devastation in Haiti, WACC assigned José Luis Soto, a Member of WACC-Caribe and director of WACC’s partner network Espacinsular, to cover the developing story and assess the situation on the ground, on behalf of WACC.
The following is a summary of his dispatches from Haiti... |
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Haiti: Assessment report by International Media Support |
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Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 um 12:50 |
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| | International Media Support (IMS), a non-profit organisation working to support local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition has released a first draft of Haiti Assessment Report based on assessment mission carried out from 22nd January to 10th February 2010.
An IMS rapid response team was deployed to Haiti to assess the needs for assistance in close consultation with Haitian journalists, media owners and journalists’ associations as well as other international media support organisations and to initiate activities in a rapid response to the most imminent needs.
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Empowering and celebrating women as agents of recovery |
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Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 um 12:40 |
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| | Montreal, February 10th, 2010. From March 8th to March 31st, The Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will organize the 6th annual International Women’s Day Broadcast Campaign. The theme of this year is “Empowering and celebrating women as agents of recovery”. The Webcast will begin at 1:00 am GMT on Monday March 8. To listen the multilingual programs visit our website: http://march8.amarc.org
AMARC WIN believes that women can be active agents of recovery from disasters. Yes, they are victims and survivors just like anyone else in communities hit by disasters. However, they can also take on leadership roles in leading their countries and communities towards recovery and long-term development. Given the opportunity and necessary support, women can participate in assessing the damage and loss; organize medical, health and psychosocial services; coordinate aid distribution and ensure that the most needy are reached; establish and maintain communication networks for survivors and their families as well as disaster management workers; among many other crucial tasks.
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Multimedia study series on gender violence launched for Lent |
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Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2010 um 17:41 |
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| | Cries of Anguish; Stories of Hope - a series of online Lenten study resources on the struggle to end violence against women will be launched 15 February during a prayer service at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland, which is home to a number of international church organizations including the World Council of Churches (WCC). The general secretary of the WCC, the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, will participate and WCC programme executive for Women in Church and Society, Dr Fulata Mbano Moyo, will discuss biblical texts addressing violence against women.
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Haiti update: SAKS’ Appeal |
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Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2010 um 10:57 |
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By José Luis Soto, Member, WACC-Caribe
(translation by Cándida González-López, Vice-Chair, WACC-Caribe) 
| | For community radio stations in Haiti which have been receiving technical assistance, educational and training materials produced by Sosyete Animasyon Kominikayon Sosyal (Society for the Promotion of Social Communications, SAKS) for more than 17 years, the destruction of its physical infrastructure, equipment and documentation, has been a hard blow.
“We have lost everything, the only thing we have now is the hope of being capable of starting from scratch.” Says Sony Esteus, a journalist and Executive Director of SAKS. |
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Call for Proposals for community and local radio stations in Africa |
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Montag, 08. Februar 2010 um 16:40 |
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 | | The Dutch foundation Stem van Afrika (SvA) has launched a Call for Proposals.
The application deadline is 28 February 2010. |
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Re-building community media in Haiti |
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Freitag, 05. Februar 2010 um 17:42 |
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By José Luis Soto, member, WACC-Caribe
(translation by Cándida González-López, Vice-Chair, WACC-Caribe) 
| | Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 2, 2010: Haiti based Groupe Médialternatif is a well established community media organization focused on participatory communications. Its office was completely destroyed by the January 12 earthquake when its members were preparing to launch a work plan for the next five years, recalls Gotson Pierre, Executive Director of Alterpresse News Agency which is a member of the Groupe Médialternatif.
“ We were on the verge of launching a five year strategic plan. Now we have to start from scratch because everything changed and the strategy has to change”, laments Pierre in an interview with José Luis Soto, a WACC-Caribe member who is on a special assignment in Haiti.
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Building advocacy capacity in the international ecumenical community |
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Dienstag, 02. Februar 2010 um 16:08 |
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By Lavinia Mohr, WACC Director of Programmes, WACC
| | WACC, represented by its Director of Programmes, Lavinia Mohr, was among participants from 17 countries around the world who gathered in Geneva in January 2010 to help guide the strengthening of advocacy capacity in the international ecumenical community. The newly launched Action by Churches Together ACT Alliance and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) co-sponsored the meeting that brought together representatives of national and international organisations such as Bread for the World (Germany), ICCO (Interchurch Organisation for Development Co-operation - Netherlands), Christian Aid (UK), Bread for All (Switzerland), the Church of Sweden, Finn Church Aid, Caritas Internationalis, the World YWCA and World Alliance of YMCAs, the All Africa Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the Near East Council of Churches, the Church of North India, the Economic Justice Network in southern Africa, CESE (Ecumenical Coordination of Services) in Brazil, and RDRS (Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Service)in Bangladesh. |
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