"La finalidad de este material es orientar a las y los líderes sociales para que aumente y se califique su participación en los espacios de debate y toma de decisiones de su distrito. Así mismo, queremos que las organizaciones de mujeres y jóvenes aporten con agendas propias a los procesos de de...sarrollo. De tal forma, que los gobiernos locales promuevan políticas y programas favorables a la equidad de género y el desarrollo juvenil." (Presentación)
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"Islamische Gesellschaften haben zwei Gesichter: Nach außen führen die Menschen ein freies und normales Leben. Aber unsichtbar, in den von den Vätern beherrschten Häusern, in den von religiösen Fanatikern kontrollierten Dörfern und in den Gefängnissen der staatlichen Geheimdienste, werden die... Menschen - meist Frauen und Mädchen - grausam unterdrückt. Die Journalistin Betsy Udink hat sich in Pakistan, dem"Land der Reinen", das sich als ideales muslimisches Gemeinwesen versteht, an diese sonst kaum sichtbaren Schauplätze begeben. Sie berichtet von der ständigen Angst von Frauen und Mädchen, von ihren Vätern oder Ehemännern im Namen des Korans und der Familienehre mißhandelt, verstümmelt oder getötet zu werden. Sie erzählt vom sexuellen Mißbrauch kleiner Jungen, den brutalen Folgen der Gesetze gegen Gotteslästerung und von einem Frauengefängnis, in dem selbst kleine Kinder wie Vieh gehalten werden. Das wunderbar lakonisch geschriebene Buch besteht aus Miniaturen über das Leben in Pakistan, die sich zu einer großen Erzählung über das Leben der Frauen im Islam zusammenfügen. An keiner Stelle werden Pakistan oder der Islam pauschal angeklagt. Die Autorin behält immer die Distanz der Beobachterin." (Verlag)
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"Isis International-Manila welcomed the suggestion of Min-WoW to collaborate on a project on engendered peace journalism and community radio. Thus, the project, “Women Making Airwaves for Peace,” was conceptualized based on the media experiences of Min-WoW and Isis’ experience on community rad...io in Asia Pacific. Canada Fund for Local Initiatives provided the necessary financial support to implement the project. This primer “Engendering Peace Journalism: Keeping Communities Whole” combines the two organizations’ expertise in monitoring and analyzing media from a Southern feminist perspective together with experiences of the women from the three training activities conducted in North-Western Mindanao, Philippines in 2006-2007. Practitioners from both mainstream and community and independent media, women’s and peace NGOs and grassroots organizations attended the training." (Preface)
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"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil...mmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed." (Publisher)
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"This article explores how women's community radio can contribute to a feminist public sphere and serve as a tool for women's empowerment through the media. Compared to film, TV and newspapers, radio is a relatively under researched and under valued area of the media. An extension of this situation ...is the paucity of theoretical and empirical studies regarding women and radio. The purpose of this article is to contribute to a theory of women's radio and its relation to practice. Employing feminist readings of Habermas' theory of the public sphere, it is possible to develop a concept of a women's or feminist public sphere in relation to women's community radio. This article discusses whether and how this is emerging through the opportunities that women have in terms of access, training and development in community radio. With empirical data from women's radio stations and projects in different parts of Europe, radio as a potential feminist public sphere is explored, and a foundation laid for a further grounding of an understanding of how alternative media can be a tool for women's empowerment." (Abstract)
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"On January 18, 1995, groups of people in 71 countries met to monitor the news of the day as reported on radio and television and in newspapers. They focused their attention on stories about women and by women. The results of that world-wide study have now been released in a report co-ordinated by M...ediaWatch Canada called 'The Global Media Monitoring Project: Women's Participation in the News." This is a study guide to that report. It is designed so that it can be used by groups or individuals who do not have the full report." (Back cover)
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