In 1994, together with Isis International (Manila) and the Women’s Tribune Centre (New York), WACC co-organized a conference titled “Women Empowering Communication”. It took place 12-17 February in Bangkok, Thailand, at Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University The conference title was deliberately chosen to reflect both how women...
Anna Turley Twenty five years ago at the parallel NGO Forum of the 1995 4th World Conference on Women, 30,000 feminists and women’s rights activists from hundreds of countries placed on the global stage our shared vision for women’s rights and gender equality. The collective action of...
Sandra Chaher En América Latina se registran los últimos años algunos avances en políticas de comunicación y géneros en sintonía con la implementación de la Sección J de la Plataforma de Acción de Beijing (PAB) de 1995, aunque no han sido suficientes para modificar sustancialmente la...
Lucía Lagunes Huerta El 14 de mayo de 2010, la recepción de un correo electrónico cambió por completo lo que hasta ese día era su práctica periodística de 15 años, “ya valiste, sobre tí ya está la muerte”, era el contenido del mensaje que venía de...
Adeline Nsimire Représentation significative, faible visibilité, image stéréotypé… tels sont les qualificatifs résumant la place de la femme et l’importance que lui accordent les médias en République démocratique du Congo Les femmes sont de plus en plus intéressées par la profession de journaliste en RDC. L’on note...
Marceline Nyambala Women’s voices and faces remain in short supply in mainstream/legacy media, although growing slowly over the 25 years since the 1995 Beijing conference, that put forward Article J on Women and Media among other articles. It would seem as if women’s voices in media have...
Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls During 2019, it has been interesting to hear through the UN system a reference to the Peace, Development and Humanitarian Nexus approach, which a number of us have been communicating – because that is our reality. Just as climate security does not mean militarisation of...
Cédric Leterme Le 25 novembre dernier, en marge de l’Internet Governance Forum (IGF), à Berlin, un réseau d’activistes et d’intellectuels a publié un « manifeste pour la justice numérique » intitulé « un Appel à prendre en main notre avenir numérique ».1 L’objectif ? Se réapproprier un « pouvoir numérique » aujourd’hui concentré...
Warsaw (Poland) 2019 At the 35th International Film Festival Warsaw 11-20 October 2019, the award of the Ecumenical Jury went to Omar ve biz (Omar and Us) directed by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadir Er (Turkey, 2019). Motivation: The contact with two Syrian refugees leads a...
