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The Global Media Monitoring Project 2010

World Association of Christian Communications (coordinator)
World Association of Christian Communications (coordinator) on 28 September, 2010
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The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) promotes communication for social change. It has corporate and personal members in 120 countries.

On 10 November 2009, the news media came under scrutiny in 108 countries. Trained volunteers from women's rightsi organizations, media professional associations, and universities monitored the representation of women and men and gender iportrayal in their local news media. The GMMP Report 2010 reveals what they found. The 2010 GMMP is the first to address women in the online news media.

 
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Internet Governance Issues on Sexuality and Women's Rights

APC WNSP, Alternative Law Forum, APC EROTICS Project
APC WNSP, Alternative Law Forum, APC EROTICS Project on 10 September, 2010
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The Internet Governance Forum i(IGF) has been a challenging space for both women's rightsi advocates and for broader constituencies engaged in advocacyi for gender equalityi and sexuality related rights. In the fifth and final year of its mandate, women's rightsi are still being dwarfed as a critical issue to be debated in this arena, while sexuality issues, although present, are not seen as a matter of rights. In preparation for this year's IGF, this briefing document highlights key issues on interneti regulationi that are relevant for gender iequality and sexuality. It also brings to the debate findings from various research initiatives undertaken by APC and key partners, including a cross-country research initiative - EROTICS - that is being conducted in five countries: Brazil, India, Lebanon, South Africa and the United Stateis.

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Women and Philippine Media: At the Fringes of Freedom

Nina Somera
Nina Somera on 16 March, 2007
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Where are women located in the struggle for freedoms to express, create and disseminate information through ICTs as media? Censorship comes in multiple forms in the Philippines. The country has one of the highest counts of media practitioners who are killed in the course of their work in the region. Yet, it retains a conflicting standing as one of the open media landscape in South East Asia. Whichever the reality, gendered expectations and roles seem to play out in this field, from ‘old’ tech, to the new. As the Church, the President, democratic and economic mechanisms struggle for authority through control of what can or cannot be said in various media, female sexuality becomes a site for contestation and (re)appropriation.
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Tools for Communication Rights in Malaysia

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 30 May, 2006
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Jac sm Kee speaks with one of the most vocal media and communication rights advocates in Malaysia, Sonia Randhawa, through an online messenger platform about motivations, communication technologies, rights, democracy, tactics and gender. Sonia currently sits as the Executive Director of the Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ). Apart from conducting regular trainings on independent media and communications strategies, CIJ is also developing community radio programmes that innovatively combine “old” and “new” technologies – radio and the interneti – through Radiq Radio.

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Where is women´s “J” spot?

María Suárez Toro
María Suárez Toro on 3 March, 2005
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As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Despite the fact that the latform for Action (PFA) contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluationi process. The U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) has also ignored “Women and media” in its web page discussion topics towards the process.

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Latin american women take on the internet

Sally Burch
Sally Burch on 2 September, 1997
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"Information technology obviously will not solve the world's problems. But wisely deployed and developed, it has proven to be a powerful tool for advancing social causes. One of the social groups that has been most dynamic in using this technology innovatively for social progress, is the women's movement; and in many aspects, the South has exerted leadership in this process."
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Where is Women´s “J” Spot?

María Suárez Toro
María Suárez Toro on 9 December, 2009
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As the international community prepares to join the United Nation’s 49th Session of the Commission on the Status on Women (CSW), women media practitioners are asking: where is women’s “J” spot? Commonly known as “Beijing +10,” the role of the official UN session is to evaluate what governments have done to implement the Platform for Action (PFA) of the Fourth World Conference on Women 10 years ago in Beijing, China. The review and appraisal process will take place from February 28 to March 11, 2005 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Despite the fact that the PFA contemplates Section “J” in Chapter 3, about Women and Media, the issue is hardly found in the provisional agenda for the evaluationi process.
 
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Radio, Convergence and Development in Africa: Gender as a Cross-Cutting Issue

Mary Myers
Mary Myers on 18 November, 2009 · Africa
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The purpose of this paper is to argue for the consideration of gender issues in all research on radio, convergencei and development in Africa. It is intended to guide the deliberations at our Butare roundtable (September 2009) discussion on a research agenda and to ensure that we put gender considerations front and centre as we design our research plans.
 
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Is Google Violating Women's Rights?

Masum Momaya
Masum Momaya on 21 August, 2009 · Global
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This article explores the potential impact of Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising policyi update on access to critical information on women's sexual reproductive health.
 
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Take Back The Tech! Reclaiming ICT to end violence against women

on 21 August, 2008 · Global
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Take Back The Tech!i is a yearly 16-day campaign that aims to engage greater participation by all civil society, especially grrls and women ICTi-users, to think about the issue of violence against womeni and ICT in diverse contexts and realities. By calling for all users to reclaim control over technology, the campaign is asking for the right to define, access, use and shape ICTs for its potential to transform power relations, towards a vision and reality of equality.

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