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IWTC Women's GlobalNet #302 Activities and
Initiatives of Women Worldwide
By Mavic Cabrera Balleza |
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WOMEN TALK PEACE: RADIO
BROADCASTS ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1325 NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE AT
IWTC.ORG For
the past several months, IWTC has worked in broadcasts focusing on UN
Security Council Resolution 1325: Women and Peace, a ground-breaking
resolution passed unanimously by the UNSC in October 2000. The broadcasts are
focused primarily on provisions in 1325 that ensure women’s representation
and participation at all levels of decision-making on peace and security
issues. IN
IN
support
of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, the Samuel Rubin Foundation
and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are available online (in mp3
format) in English and Filipino. These
local and international language radio productions are part of IWTC’s efforts to develop a core group
of broadcasters, print journalists
and other media practitioners who will sustain the information
flow on UNSC res. 1325 and other relevant global policies and
legal mechanisms that support the work of women’s peace activities worldwide. The
radio productions were first officially launched at the World Association
of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Asia-Pacific conference
in Jakarta (November 2005), and at the NGO Working Group on Women, Peace and Security event at the 50th
session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March 2006. As part of
the AMARC launch, they were also introduced during the
International Women’s Day ( ALL OF THE LANGUAGE RADIO
BROADCASTS HAVE NOW BEEN UPLOADED ONTO THE IWTC WEBSITE FOR USE BY RADIO
STATIONS AND MEDIA NETWORKS WORLDWIDE.
The
following are comments from a letter just received from Anne S. Walker,
former Executive Director of IWTC, now serving as IWTC Special Projects
Coordinator and based in
“Some minutes later, while
responding to correspondence and other things at my computer, the shooting
and shouting started and I almost had a heart attack! I thought my little Mac
Powerbook was exploding! It was the broadcast
starting of course, and I was totally hypnotized by it all. I loved hearing
Jessica (Nkuuhe from Isis WICCE) and the other “Well done everyone involved,
especially those who worked on the script. How extraordinarily exciting to
have such a resource available worldwide for downloading and use on radio and
other media networks. I can't wait to hear the (Excerpts
from email received from Anne S. Walker) The
radio productions in building cyber dialogues that
IWTC co-organized with Isis WICCE (Women’s International Cross-Cultural
Exchange/Kampala, Community
radio stations and other media networks that have limited Internet
access may request copies of the radio broadcasts on CD by writing
to: Mavic
Cabrera-Balleza, IWTC Senior Program Associate, 777
United Email:
<mavic@iwtc.org> |
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