[cma-l] Fwd: AMARC WIN-16 Days Broadcast Campaign to end Violence Against Women!

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From: Flor Maria Balbin <flor.maria.balbin at si.amarc.org>

Montreal, 11 September 2009.

>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 honour groups and individuals who have committed
to bringing VAW to the forefront of global attention, to encouraging
everyone in their various capacities to take action to end VAW, and to
demanding accountability for all of the promises made to eliminate
VAW.

This years’ international theme of the campaign is "Commit - Act -
Demand: We CAN End Violence against Women!".

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:

http://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 day’s 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 at 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 - bianca(at)isiswomen(dot)org;
West & Central Africa: Haby Diallo - habiba_dl(at)yahoo(dot)fr;
East & Southern Africa: Benilde Nhalevilo -
Benilde(dot)nhalevilo(at)gmail(dot)com;
West Europe: Lucia Ruiz - lucia(dot)ruiz(at)radiovallekas(dot)org;
East Europe: Nino Jakhua - zurabale88(at)yahoo(dot)com;
Latin America & the Caribbean: Maru Chavez - mechf(at)hotmail(dot)com;
MENA: Tamara Aqrabawe - aqrabawe(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au;
North America: Sophie Toupin - 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 right 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 visit:

http://www.amarc.org