[eccr] New issue of Media and Gender Monitor on the WACC site

>New Today on WACCs website: A full new issue of Media and Gender Monitor
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>*** Global Media Monitoring Project Award Nomination ***
>The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) will be 10 years old in 2005 
>and while numerous gender and communication activists, policy makers and 
>academics have over the years recognized the importance of GMMP as a tool 
>for change, to date there has been no formal recognition of the project. 
>All that changed at the end of last year when Dr Karen Ross, Reader in 
>Mass Communication and Director of the Centre for Communication, Culture 
>and Media Studies at the University of Coventry in the UK nominated GMMP 
>for the award of Most Important Applied/ Public Policy Research 
>Programme of the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International 
>Communication Association (ICA).
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1522
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>*** Why Gender Still Matters... ***
>... or how I learned to embrace feminism and accept my place in the 
>awkward squad
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>Ten years ago, in 1994, I embarked on what was to become a significant 
>research interest for me when I decided to monitor the medias portrayal 
>of the contest for the leadership of the British Labour Party, a contest 
>provoked by the sudden death of the then leader, John Smith.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1521
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>*** Caught in a Dilemma? Hiv/Aids, Gender and the Media ***
>Over 22 millions people have died of AIDS related illnesses in the last 20 
>years and more than 42 million people are currently infected with a virus 
>which was unknown in 1980 (UNAIDS 2002). While HIV/AIDS  is the largest 
>health issue currently facing the world, the epidemic is a gender issue. 
>Statistics prove that both the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS is not random.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1520
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>*** Report from Canada ***
>Kristine Greenaway is currently working with Canada's Department of 
>Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa after a term with the 
>World Council of Churches in Geneva, where she worked on a number of 
>issues, including HIV/AIDS. Kristine has been active with WACC since 1989, 
>having served as Vice President for the North American Regional 
>Association of WACC and as a member of the Central Committee. She has a 
>B.A. in French literature, a post-graduate diploma in communication arts, 
>and an M. Ed. in Adult Education. Kristine is a member of The United 
>Church of Canada.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1519
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>*** Report from South Africa ***
>Judith Smith Vialva is director of the Cape Town-based Southern African 
>Media and Gender Institute (SAMGI) - an NGO that works on media and 
>HIV/AIDS issues, among others. Judith has a long history working in the 
>field of media and gender and is a prominent activist.  Her interest in 
>women, youth and the role that media plays in the dissemination of 
>information, is evidenced by her active participation in many forums, 
>including print and broadcast media. Judith has always insisted on peace 
>building throughout her work despite having lived through the legacy of 
>apartheid.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1518
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>*** Mass Media: A Tool for Empowerment of Asian Women? ***
>Prompted by the desire to promote the positive role the mass media can 
>play in relation to gender and development concerns and to share 
>experiences with two the neighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia, the 
>Research Centre for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) 
>and Vietnamese Info Youth Centre organised a workshop on gender, media and 
>development in Vietnam.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1517
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>*** Out of Sight, Out of Mind ***
>Among the least visible issues in the media today is poverty. It was with 
>this in mind that WACC convened a panel on communication and poverty as 
>part of the World Forum on Communication Rights (WFCR), a one-day event 
>held alongside the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 
>Geneva in December of last year.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1516
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>*** Creating Richness in the Information Society ***
>Inclusion, Diversity and Gender Equity.
>Since preparations for the WSIS began in 2002, there have been a large 
>number of networks and organizations, many of them WACC partners, working 
>to ensure that gender equality and womens rights are integral to the WSIS 
>process, documents and outcomes.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1515
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>*** A Burning Issue ***
>Over the last two years, WACCs Global Studies Programme has organised a 
>series of workshops in Africa on Refugees Right to Communicate. The 
>series culminated in the publication of a call to action summarising the 
>key findings of the workshops. Here, Valérie Gatabazi highlights critical 
>gender issues in relation to the situation of refugees, based on the 
>presentation she gave at one of the workshops which took place in the 
>Great Lakes region of Africa. The issues are universal and call for urgent 
>redress, especially with regard to the situation of women and girls in 
>refugee camps.
>http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1514
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