289, March 2009

Promouvoir la communication pour le changement social

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289, March 2009

Global News

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WACC addresses Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which concludes “not enough news coverage of women”

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By Lavinia Mohr, Deputy General Secretary and Director of Programmes, WACC

		“The media have enormous potential to foster gender equality, but they tend to perpetuate negative portrayals of women, focusing for the most part on their physical or emotional attributes and confining them all too often to stereotypical roles”, said Swiss parliamentarian Doris Stump at a hearing on combating sexist stereotypes in the media held in Paris, March 24, by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Equality Committee. She said, “The media have a key part to play in shaping individual identities, particularly among young people, and the constant clichés purveyed by the media become rooted in the collective sub-conscience, casting each gender in a fixed role.”
Swiss parliamentarian, Doris Stump

Webinar to highlight peace project

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By Rebekah Chevalier, WACC North America Vice-Chair

		WACC North America is hoping to venture into new technological territory this year by hosting a webinar. At its meeting March 25–26, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts, the executive committee discussed the idea of hosting a webinar in the fall on the topic of its recently completed peace monitoring project.
WACC North America Chair, Keith Knight

Programme Updates

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Extensive interest in WACC project support

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By Lavinia Mohr, Director of Programmes, WACC

WACC received almost 140 proposals for project support partnerships by the 15 February 2009 deadline. Together these proposals total more than 2.2 million Euros – an amount considerably larger than the funds available to WACC for project partnerships. The number of proposals received is seventy percent higher than the number received last year. The WACC General Secretariat was pleased with an increase in the number of project proposals from Asia and Africa.

WACC supported documentary continues to receive international recognition

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By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC

“Geha Junction, Tel Aviv, a busy neighbourhood. Here, hundreds of Palestinians live in a derelict underground multi-storey car park, part of an abandoned, unfinished shopping mall. They slip into Israel to find work, to try to bring home a small wage. Most nights of the week they stay here, in subhuman conditions, six floors below ground in the darkness amid dripping water, rubble and filth.” (Synopsis - http://www.lidf.co.uk/lidf09/films/six-floors-to-hell/)

Features

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Religious fundamentalisms and women's rights

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The Association for Women's Rights in Development, AWID, has released a special series of publications on religious fundamentalisms and women's rights. The publications draw on the results of a global survey of over 1,600 women’s rights activists, in-depth interviews with over 50 key experts, as well as supplementary research and consultations.

The first publication Shared insights: Women’s rights activists define religious fundamentalisms explores how religious fundamentalisms are being understood and experienced by women’s rights activists located within different regional and religious contexts.

Venezuela's media is caught in a vicious circle

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... Outlets supporting Hugo Chavez proliferate under the media-savvy president.

By Charlie Devereux - GlobalPost

CARACAS — A community television station beams daily reports to the shanty towns that sprawl just above its offices in the converted stables of a former presidential residence.

Religious communicators moved by screening of Reel Bad Arabs

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WACC North America hosted a free screening of "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People", a documentary, featuring acclaimed author and media critic, Dr Jack Shaheen who attended the screening held in Boston, Massachusetts, March 26. WACC General Secretary, Randy Naylor, and Deputy Director of Programmes, Philip Lee, also attended.

Below is the report written by one of the scholarship students attending the conference...

WACC General Secretary, Randy Naylor (left), with Dr. Jack G. Shaheen, author of ‘Reel Bad Arabs’. (Photo: George Conklin, WFN)

Pictorial news

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New members of the WACC Middle-East Regional Executive Committee attending the annual Regional Executive Committee meeting in Cairo: (left) Tamara Kharroub, the regional Vice-Chair who is also the Manager of the International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine and Mary Therese Kreidy (Right), the regional Treasurer who is the Programs Manager for Télé-Lumière, one of the first Christian television stations in Lebanon and the Middle East.

WACC invites Letters to the Editor

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Please send us comments and feedback on articles published in Media Action and the website. Your comments will be published on our new section - “Letters to the Editor”, in each issue of Media Action.

The Letters should total about 200 words or less and will be further shortened when possible in order to help make space for more letters.

Your letters should include your name, country, organization, postal and e-mail address. Only the name, country and organization will be published.

WACC reserves the right to edit for clarity, length and to avoid libel.

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New information sharing tools

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In addition to RSS feeds and emails, we have included several social bookmarking tools at the end of each article for you to save and share your favorite articles with your colleagues and friends. For further information about social bookmarking please click here.

La WACC encourage la communication pour favoriser le changement social. Elle est convaincue que la communication est un droit humain fondamental qui définit l’humanité commune des peuples, renforce les cultures, favorise la participation, crée une communauté et défit la tyrannie et l'oppression.

The World Association for Christian Communication is a UK Registered Charity (number 296073) and a Company registered in England and Wales (number 2082273) with its Registered Office at 36 Causton Street, London SW1P 4ST. It is an incorporated Charitable Organisation in Canada (number 83970 9524 RR0001) with its head office at 308 Main Street, Toronto ON, M4C 4X7.