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GMMP 2010 report to be launched on 29 September |
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| | The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) report will be launched on 29 September 2010
The GMMP is the world’s largest and longest running research and advocacy initiative on gender in the world news media. The research – or media monitoring with a gender lens – has taken place every five years since 1995. Research for the 4th GMMP was carried out on 10 November 2009 by volunteer organisations, groups and individuals in 108 countries around the world. Read more...
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WACC President and General Secretary awarded Honorary Doctorates |
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By Dr. Samuel W. Meshack, Chair WACC-Asia & Principal, Gurukul Lutheran Theological College
| | WACC President, Dennis Smith and General Secretary, Randy Naylor, were among six leaders conferred Doctor of Divinity (Honoris Causa) by the Academy of Ecumenical Indian Theology and Church Administration during its 22nd Convocation ceremony held at Gurukul Lutheran Theological College and Research Institute, 6 August 2010. Read more...
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Indigenous people worldwide are forging new agendas with the help of communication |
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WACC Statement on International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, 9, August 2010
| | Half way through the second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, launched in 2004 by United Nations’ General Assembly, there have been significant gains among the Indigenous peoples of the world. In regions such as Latin America, indigenous peoples are creating national and regional alliances and in some countries, such as Bolivia, they have an increased presence in the setting of national agendas as well as in public life. Read more...
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New wine in old bottles |
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By Philip Lee, WACC Deputy Director of Programs
| | The 7th International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture took place at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, 9-13 August 2010. This series of events was initiated in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1994, followed by an international public meeting in 1996 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Past conferences have brought to the fore research into both very old and very new mediums of communication, with traditions ranging from ancient indigenous practice to the most recent cyber-ritual, from settings in the global North and South. Read more...
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Regional News |
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WACC North America sponsors GMMP Roundtable in New York City |
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| | To coincide with the release of the final report of the WACC Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP), WACC North America is sponsoring a roundtable with journalists, journalism school deans and students on September 20, 2010, 6 - 8 p.m. at St. John's University 's Manhattan campus, 101 Murray St.
Admission to the roundtable, entitled "Who Makes the News" is free and open to all. Read more...
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Formation des femmes en plaidoyer pour la prévention des conflits |
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Par Mathilde Kpalla, Membre du Comité Executif de la WACC, Région Afrique  | | Du 02 au 06 aout 2010, s’est tenu à l’hôtel Saint Thomas, à Lomé, au Togo, un séminaire atelier sur les techniques de plaidoyer pour les femmes activistes de paix d’origine africaine dont le thème est : « formation des femmes en plaidoyer pour la prévention et la résolution des conflits et la consolidation de la paix »
Cet atelier est organisé par le Programme des Femmes Artisanes de Paix et le Mouvement International pour la Réconciliation (WPP/MIR/IFOR), Bureau Afrique en partenariat avec le Réseau Ouest-africain pour l’Edification de la Paix (WANEP-Togo). Read more... |
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Programme updates |
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ICTs training brings luster to the lives of marginalised women and girls |
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By the Creative Centre for Communication and Development, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
| | “ I have read stories in magazines about how computers can make communication easy but I had never imagined that a day will come when I could sit in front of a computer and learn about its mysterious operations. I only thought that computers were for big businesses such as banks and chain stores”.
Lindiwe Dube, 48, had always believed that information and communication technologies are for those leading a sophisticated life. Living in a community where even local schools do not have computers, Dube’s beliefs were reinforced by the sad reality that none of her five children had ever used a computer. Read more...
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Radio “Bue Xhizda” gives expression to indigenous communication rights in Southern Mexico |
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Introduction by María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager
| | Indigenous people from the 25 communities which make up the El Rincón de la Sierra Norte region in Oaxaca, México, want to participate in the radio ‘because they feel it is theirs”. With these words, the Zapotec women and men who work in Radio XHIDZA (Zapotec Air) describe what members of the communities feel about the station. It is through this low frequency station that the communication rights of the Zapotec people are given concrete expression. Read more...
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Features |
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Women in media in Bangladesh |
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By Pervez Bubul, for The Daily Star (Bangladesh)  | | Women have been doing noteworthy work as journalists in Bangladesh as well as elsewhere during the last decade. But their number in both print and electronic media in our country is less than expected. We need to recognize the challenges and explore the opportunities for women to encourage them.
American journalist Mary Temple Bayard wrote in her article on women in journalism: "The newspaper is the educator of the public, and men and women who write in newspapers have the best opportunities for creating public opinion. They know their colleagues of the other sex watch them with an attention naturally critical, but not always sympathetic; neither is there a royal road especially prepared or made smooth for either sex. A fair field and no favour must suffice for women in journalism. Read more...
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Political power, technology and mass media |
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What role for New Information and Communication Technologies?
Introduction by María Teresa Aveggio, Programme Manager, WACC
| | A great deal of emphasis has been put into convincing the world that new information and communication technologies represent a great step towards a more equal world. These new technologies, we are told, will democratise societies and improve the lives of millions. In the following article (in Spanish), Rev Carlos Valle, former General Secretary of WACC (1986-2001), looks at the relation between political power, technology and mass media. Read more... |
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