[cma-l] Fwd: AMARC-WIN 2008-16 Days Broadcast Campaign to Denounce Gender Violence in the Media

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From: secretariat at si.amarc.org <secretariat at si.amarc.org>

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AMARC-WIN 2008-16 Days Broadcast Campaign to Denounce Gender Violence
in the Media
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Montreal, 1 November 2008. From November 25 to December 10th, the
Women's International Network of the World Association of Community
Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will highlight the 16 days of activism
against gender violence with an Internet campaign to Denounce Gender
violence in the media and transform media into a catalyst to end
violence against women. The campaign will be broadcast at
http://www.amarc.org/16jours

This years' international theme of the campaign is "Media and Violence
Against Women". The campaign seeks to denounce gender violence in the
media and will cover 3 dimensions:

(a) Media as an instrument in combating violence against women.
(b) Violence against women as projected in the media which
"normalizes" violence.
(c) Violence committed against women media practitioners.

The 16 days campaign starts on November 25th with the International
Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women; it continues on
November 29th with the International Women's Human Rights Defenders
Day; followed by December 1: World AIDS Day; December 6: Commemoration
day of the Montreal (Canada) Massacre in 1989 and ends with the
December 10th: International Human rights Day. The campaign will be
broadcast at www.amarc.org/16jours

Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa,
Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will
dedicate these 16 days to highlight the effort of women and men
working to put an end to gender violence. The programs featured will
include documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry, music and much
more. This multilingual broadcast campaign mobilizes community radios
around a global issue and encourages them to use new communication
technologies such as the Internet to extend the reach of their voices.
Radio stations around the globe are invited to download the audio
files from the AMARC-WIN 16 days website and broadcast them in their
radio stations.

The coordination of the 16 days campaign at the international level
will be ensured by the International Secretariat of AMARC, contact
Flor Maria Balbin secretariat(at)si(dot)amarc(point)org. Regionally,
the campaign will be coordinated by the regional AMARC WIN
representatives in conjunction with AMARC regional offices.
Asia-Pacific: Bianca Miglioretto a bianca(at)isiswomen(dot)org; West
and Central Africa, Zara Yacoub myzara(at)intnet(dot)td; East and
Southern Africa, Doreen Rukaria: rukdoreen(at)yahoo(dot)com; Europe,
Lucia Ruiz at lucia.ruiz(at)radiovallekas(dot)org; Latin America and
the Caribbean, Maru Chavez a mechf(at)hotmail(dot)com ; MENA: Tamara
Aqrabawe at aqrabawe(@)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au ; North America Sophie
Toupin at sophie(underscore)toupin(at)hotmail(dot)com.

The AMARC Women's International Network is a large assembly of women
communicators working to ensure women's rights to communicate through
and within the community radio movement. AMARC is an international
non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement,
and linking more than 4,000 community radios in over 110 countries.
AMARC aims to support, defend and promote the interests of community
broadcasters through solidarity and international cooperation. For
further info http://www.amarc.org