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Video: Talking about Section J - Access to Media
By Jan Moolman
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 government review at the CSW.
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Video: Talking about Section J - Women Producing Media
By Jan Moolman
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls from FemLink Pacific: Media Initiatives for Women in Fiji talks to Jan Moolman.
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Linking local women to the global agenda
By Esther Nasikye
Esther Nasikye, a Communication and Advocacy Officer at Icon Women & Young People's Leadership Academy, is commenting on the importance of the new media and art for grassroot women: "I have met many women in Uganda who are doing amazing work in their villages, towns, sub-counties but still work in isolation with little or no connection to like minded people whether in their town or country or...
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Video: Talking about Section J - Girls and Social Media
By Jan Moolman
Rosemary Okello from the African Woman and Child Feature Service talks go Jan Moolman about how social media is changing the way girls and young women see and use media in Africa
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Witnessing J-spot
By Jan Moolman
I'm at the UN building in New York attending the 54th CSW and have just uploaded two videos to my online account. It took 3 minutes to upload. The videos share the impressions of two women's rights activists working in and with media about what is happening with Section J at the CSW. They took four minutes to record. So, in seven minutes I was able to get quotes from women who spoke with...
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Video: Talking about section J - Opening Panel
By Analía Lavin
Video interview: There were five speakers in the opening panel and only one of them were women. There was almost no mention to ICTs. Lalaine Viado, part of the APC team in New York, summarises main issues of the conference's opening panel.
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Line stories: experiencing UN bureaucracy in real time
By Analía Lavin
Monday, day 1, was day one of the Commission of the Status of Women meeting that is taking place in New York. I remember reading a blog post from my colleague Katerina Fialova, written a couple of years ago, talking about women from all over the world queuing in the UN headquarters building, and how it would be interesting to do a gender analysis of the line. I didn't imagine that I would have...
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BPA is a teen-er
By Lalaine P. Viado
The Beijing Platform for Action (BPA) is 15 years old and a global review of the progress of its implementation will be held at the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on 1-12 March 2010 at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The global review will focus on the link between the BPA implementation and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the outcome...
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GenderIT.org CSW2010 Team
By Kateřina Fialová
The GenderIT Feminist Talk contributors and tweeters at the 54th session on the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW) for the 15-year review of the Beijing Platform for Action (Beijing +15), 1 - 6 March 2010, New York, are Analia Lavin, Jan Moolman, and Lalaine P. Viado.
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I wonder if we will find women’s “J” spot at the Beijing +15 review…
By Jan Moolman
In the article to which the ‘“J” spot’ refers, Maria Suarez explored why Section J was not a priority issue during the Beijing +10 review. Five years later, can we claim that it has happened? Or do circular ‘development’ debates continue to perpetuate the false dichotomy between ‘hard issues' such as access to water and housing and ‘soft issues’ including women’s rights to own, access, use and...
