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What happened to Section J?

Sarah Macharia
Sarah Macharia on 17 March, 2010 - 22:11
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Sarah Macharia from the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) summaries the outcomes of the panel discussion on the Fourth Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), which took place on March 2 in New York on the occasion of the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW): “You may be aware the GMMP is a longitudinal study running since 1995 on gender in the world news media. The research is implemented in 5-year cycles, to capture a one-day snapshot of gender representation and portrayal in the news across participating countries. 130 countries took part in GMMP 2010, an increase from 76 in 2005, 70 in 2000 and 71 in 1995. The WACC in collaboration with UNIFEM organised a parallel session at the 54th CSW to present and debate the preliminary findings.”
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Video: Talking about section J - Games for social change

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 15 March, 2010 - 18:21
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Heidi Boisvert, from Breakthrough, talks about their experience with videogames and how she thinks the feminist movement can be involved.
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Covering Beijing+15 from the sidelines

Olivia H. Tripon
Olivia H. Tripon on 15 March, 2010 - 15:48
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Olivia H. Tripon, the Philippine Bureau Chief and Country Consultant for Women’s Feature Service, is writing about her experience from the UN Media Accreditation process: "...When it comes to covering this all important review which comes every five years, one would think that media organizations like the Women’s Feature Service (WFS) which had actively covered most of the 12 areas of concern of women for the past 15 years would be given UN Media Accreditation at least for this 54th session of the CSW. Unfortunately for WFS Philippines which I head, that is not the case. For the first time since Beijing, I can only cover side events, albeit a more interesting and diverse coverage."
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Beyond tools: Internet as a critical policy issue for the advancement of women's rights

Jac sm Kee
Jac sm Kee on 15 March, 2010 - 14:05
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Jac sm Kee, the Women's Rightsi and ICT Policyi coordinator for APC WNSP, reviews the UN Secretary-General's report on the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action (E/CN.6/2010/2) and assess how close we are to realize women's right to communicatei: “I wasn't present at the Beijing Conference in 1995, and having missed it, I feel like I have missed out on one of the most important moments in the history of the women's movement. From the stories I hear, it was truly a time when change not only felt possible, but was a tangible foothold away”.
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The “J Spot”at the 54th CSW: Celebrating women's social networking is not enough

Heike Jensen
Heike Jensen on 12 March, 2010 - 23:12
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Heike Jensen, researcher and lecturer at the Department of Gender Studies of Humboldt University in Berlin, (Germany), is locating the section J at the 54th Commission on the Status of Women:"[The J Spot] seems to prove almost as elusive as locating its embodied cousin has turned out to be. First of all, you will not find the J Spot in this year's intergovernmental and other official debates or proposed resolutions. You will have to seek it out in the vast parallel programme mounted by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in conjunction with this year's meeting, and this is where the difficulties really begin in earnest."
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Video: Talking about section J - Access to Internet in Lebanon

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 6 March, 2010 - 14:28
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Nadine Moawad talks about what's going on the interneti in Lebanon from a gender perspective.
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Women in and out of media

Analia Lavin
Analia Lavin on 5 March, 2010 - 10:27
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Paraphrasing Virginia Woolf's essay A room of one's own, Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, said: “There is a need to ensure that the necessary resources are mobilised so that women have the opportunity to write their stories, have their voices heard and their identities represented, particularly when it comes to the peace and security sector. Media content must continue to reach women in their communities, it must provide in-depth, substantial information that supports and empower the work of women”.

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Video: Talking about Section J - Re-defining Media

Jan Moolman
Jan Moolman on 5 March, 2010 - 10:00
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Cai Yiping, executive director of ISIS International, shares the need to take Section J forward with the recognition of the increasing role of ICTs that re-defined the media contained in Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action.
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Video: Talking about Section J - Access to Media

Jan Moolman
Jan Moolman on 5 March, 2010 - 09:56
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Chandrika Sepali Kottegoda, co-director of the Women and Media Collective based in Colombo, Srilanka, talks about the lack of access by NGOs that makes it difficult to see the J spot in the actual governmenti review at the CSW.
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Video: Talking about Section J - Women Producing Media

Jan Moolman
Jan Moolman on 5 March, 2010 - 09:48
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Sharon Bhagwan Rolls from FemLink Pacific: Media Initiatives for Women in Fiji talks to Jan Moolman.
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