 Global Media Monitoring Project. Bombs reign down, shots are fired nearby and the camera closes in on a woman huddled in a doorway, crying and cradling her injured child. At home, the viewers feel sympathy for these victims of war, just as they have for countless other women and children many times before. This woman and her child could be from anywhere; the violence raging around them about anything, for this is the standard fare of conflict reporting. Despite the fact that Women and Media was identified as one of the 12 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action in 1995, there has been little change in mainstream media; the perspectives on women are rarely nuanced, especially in conflict situations.
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The Right to Communicate: Women in the Information Society |
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- Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the upcoming World Summit of the Information Society (WSIS). The campaign is sponsored and supported by the Platform for Communication Rights, a group of NGOs involved in media and communication projects around the world, of which WACC is a part. As part of the campaign, CRIS members are producing a series of papers for the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) as input to the WSIS. This is an abstract of one of the papers by Dafne Plou, a WACC member from Argentina.
- For further information on the CRIS campaign, go to www.crisinfo.org
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The Global Media Monitoring Project 2005 |
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Women in bikinis and tangas posing on a beach, heart attacks and snoring. To most there would seem to be no obvious connection between these disparate items, but in one Turkish television news report in February 2001 it was deemed appropriate to illustrate a serious story on research into the link between heart attacks and snoring in women with video footage of scantily-clad women posing on a beach. What message does this deliver about women in the news?
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The Gender Dimensions of ICTs |
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- In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have come to be seen as a universal remedy to the problems of underdevelopment. The international community is increasingly promoting the use of ICTs by marginalized groups as a sure-fire way to ensure their inclusion in the evolving information society and thus in the development of their communities and country. Yet, this unconditional support for ICTs has been accompanied by only sparse analysis of the conditions necessary for such marginalised groups to truly harness the power of ICTs for their own empowerment.
- ICTs have only recently emerged on the African continent and especially in the Francophone African region. Women are currently marginal users of ICTs and have had very little participation in formulating the policies, strategies, regulations and norms that are guiding the development of ICT infrastructure in the region. As such, there is a risk that ICTs will ultimately reinforce gender inequalities, rather than become the magic solution that has been touted.
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Section J: A Women’s Revolution |
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The 20th century will go down in history as a century of paradigms. During this short period in the long history of humanity, two revolutions took place, both of which profoundly changed relations between men and women. The effects of this double revolution are evident in the every day lives of millions: in their relationships; in motherhood; in the world of work; in approaches to sexuality; in people’s emotions; in love; and in the construction of personal identity.
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Forum: Communicating for Peace |
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Bombs reign down, shots are fired nearby and the camera closes in on a woman huddled in a doorway, crying and cradling her injured child. At home, the viewers feel sympathy for these victims of war, just as they have for countless other women and children many times before. This woman and her child could be from anywhere; the violence raging around them about anything, for this is the standard fare of conflict reporting.
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