> New Today on WACC's website: A full new issue of Media and Gender Monitor
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> *** Global Media Monitoring Project Award Nomination ***
> The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) will be 10 years old in 2005
and while numerous gender and communication activists, policy makers and
academics have over the years recognized the importance of GMMP as a tool
for change, to date there has been no formal recognition of the project. All
that changed at the end of last year when Dr Karen Ross, Reader in Mass
Communication and Director of the Centre for Communication, Culture and
Media Studies at the University of Coventry in the UK nominated GMMP for the
award of 'Most Important Applied/ Public Policy Research Programme' of the
Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association
(ICA).
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1522
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> *** Why Gender Still Matters... ***
> ... or how I learned to embrace feminism and accept my place in the
awkward squad
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> Ten years ago, in 1994, I embarked on what was to become a significant
research interest for me when I decided to monitor the media's portrayal of
the contest for the leadership of the British Labour Party, a contest
provoked by the sudden death of the then leader, John Smith.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1521
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> *** Caught in a Dilemma? Hiv/Aids, Gender and the Media ***
> Over 22 millions people have died of AIDS related illnesses in the last 20
years and more than 42 million people are currently infected with a virus
which was unknown in 1980 (UNAIDS 2002). While HIV/AIDS is the largest
health issue currently facing the world, the epidemic is a gender issue.
Statistics prove that both the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS is not random.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1520
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> *** Report from Canada ***
> Kristine Greenaway is currently working with Canada's Department of
Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa after a term with the
World Council of Churches in Geneva, where she worked on a number of issues,
including HIV/AIDS. Kristine has been active with WACC since 1989, having
served as Vice President for the North American Regional Association of WACC
and as a member of the Central Committee. She has a B.A. in French
literature, a post-graduate diploma in communication arts, and an M. Ed. in
Adult Education. Kristine is a member of The United Church of Canada.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1519
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> *** Report from South Africa ***
> Judith Smith Vialva is director of the Cape Town-based Southern African
Media and Gender Institute (SAMGI) - an NGO that works on media and HIV/AIDS
issues, among others. Judith has a long history working in the field of
media and gender and is a prominent activist. Her interest in women, youth
and the role that media plays in the dissemination of information, is
evidenced by her active participation in many forums, including print and
broadcast media. Judith has always insisted on peace building throughout her
work despite having lived through the legacy of apartheid.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1518
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> *** Mass Media: A Tool for Empowerment of Asian Women? ***
> Prompted by the desire to promote the positive role the mass media can
play in relation to gender and development concerns and to share experiences
with two the neighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia, the Research
Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and
Vietnamese Info Youth Centre organised a workshop on gender, media and
development in Vietnam.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1517
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> *** Out of Sight, Out of Mind ***
> Among the least visible issues in the media today is poverty. It was with
this in mind that WACC convened a panel on communication and poverty as part
of the World Forum on Communication Rights (WFCR), a one-day event held
alongside the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva in
December of last year.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1516
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> *** Creating Richness in the Information Society ***
> Inclusion, Diversity and Gender Equity.
> Since preparations for the WSIS began in 2002, there have been a large
number of networks and organizations, many of them WACC partners, working to
ensure that gender equality and women's rights are integral to the WSIS
process, documents and outcomes.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1515
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> *** A Burning Issue ***
> Over the last two years, WACC's Global Studies Programme has organised a
series of workshops in Africa on Refugees' Right to Communicate. The series
culminated in the publication of a call to action summarising the key
findings of the workshops. Here, ValñÓie Gatabazi highlights critical gender
issues in relation to the situation of refugees, based on the presentation
she gave at one of the workshops which took place in the Great Lakes region
of Africa. The issues are universal and call for urgent redress, especially
with regard to the situation of women and girls in refugee camps.
> http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1514
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