[from Dr. Vinod Pavarala] Dear all:
I would like to draw your attention to *Women Make the News (WMN), *a global policy advocacy initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media, launched annually on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March).* * The theme for this year, *Rural women’s access to media and information*, seeks to underscore and stimulate knowledge exchange on: - the importance of policies and programmes in favour of access to media and information in rural communities, particularly for rural women; and - good practices and successes in this area as undertaken by public service broadcasters, commercial and community media and NGOs working to improve rural women’s access to media and information. Access to media and information by rural women and men has many important dimensions. Within the framework of the function of the media to provide information needed by rural women to enhance their economic empowerment and political participation, WMN 2012 focuses on two of these dimensions: - can and how are rural women and men accessing (listen to, read or watch) radio, newspaper and television in their communities, and how are community media and new media/technologies helping? - are rural women actually in charge media programming, production and broadcast? Do join this effort initiated by UNESCO. For information, ideas and resources to mark the occasion, please check out http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/crosscutting-priorities/gender/women-make-the-news/ regards, Prof. Vinod Pavarala *UNESCO Chair on Community Media* Department of Communication University of Hyderabad -- Dr. Kanchan K. Malik Reader/Associate Professor Department of Communication Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication University of Hyderabad Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500046 Phone: +91-40-23135506 (O) +91-990-858-2613 (M)
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