Welcome
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The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), founded in 1951, is a forum for personal contact and professional development among women broadcasters worldwide. We are a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Comprising women of many nationalities across the broadcast spectrum, we arrange international conferences with workshops, screenings, lectures, training and professional networking.
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New Board
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The Athena Film Festival which will take
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The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism is pleased to announce the 9th annual USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program.
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The IAWRT Philippines Chapter joins the Quezon Tri-Media Group (QTMG) and the National Union of Journalists-Quezon (NUJP) Chapter as they re-organize and re-strengthen their ranks after a recently c
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Ganap na Babae (Fulfilled Woman), a film for women made by women directors, will open the 6th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition on July 9, 2010 at the Cultural Center of t
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The IAWRT-USA in-the-making team organized a special evening to celebrate the joining of IAWRT's longest serving member, Ms.
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Arshiya Ahsan has initiated activities towards the formation of an IAWRT Chapter in the USA.
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Be part of the first Television Writers' Festival, covering topics including the politics of notes, the balancing act of running a show, the challenges of making the transition from writer-for-hire
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Full Transcript of the Interview:
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An international body representing women in broadcasting has called on the Al-Jazeera TV news channel to reconsider a controversial ruling after five women presenters walked out after being told to dr
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For the first time in Bangladesh, fourteen (14) Community Radio Stations are going on air effective May 20, 2010.
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The IAWRT Family wishes to congratulate Ananya Chakraborti for successfully winning the UNFPA-Laadli Regional and National Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2009-2010 in her production entry,
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The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) joins the world in celebrating Press Freedom Day.
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Population First organises the Northern and Eastern regional UNFPA-Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity 2009-10 on April 12, 2010 in Bhopal.UNFPA-Laadli Med
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In addition to staging the annual event, the City TV foundation conducts training of local television managers, producers, cameramen and journalists, in Slovakia and in other countries.
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There has been obvious finger pointing and soul searching at the 54th Commission on the status of Women as delegates and NGO representatives wonder loudly why a leading super power like the U
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As a non-profit multimedia training institute, Aina's work is guided by a belief in the importance of free speech and cultural expression. A strong supporter of women's rights in Afghanis
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Launched annually on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (8 March), Women Make the News (WMN) is a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media.
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-This is making hate to a woman, said Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women´s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. She started her power point presentation by warning against brutal images
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No democracy without women
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Prospects of a gender equality entity hold greater promise for strenghening gender work
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Gender equality involves men. Change does not come by itself, targeted political action is needed.
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DAY ONE: board managed to attend the two day Global NGO Forum
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The side event at the CSW was a complete success thanks to the efforts of Racheal Nakitare and all of the IAWRT members. The room was full and the discussion lively.
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The IAWRT-India, in partnership with the IIC, is organizing the 6th Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi on March 6- 7-8, 2010.
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Bodies such as IAWRT should promote the best of film, radio and television, one of the Association's longest serving members told the Biennial Conference.
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The UN Commission on the Status of Women will be meeting in New York in March, on the theme of the 15th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, passed at the fourth UN World Co
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The history of IAWRT is brought together in this land mark book project. The foreword is available here and the entire book is available under our projects section.
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Press Release: International Documentary Awards Announced
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IAWRT broadcasters and documentary makers will gather in Cambodia next week to examine the portrayal of women and their practical involvement in media.
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Invitations are now open for the 2009 IAWRT International Awards for Excellence. Program makers have until Friday 16 October 2009 to submit an entry.
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IAWRT will launced a new book on the history of the radio and TV association at its Biennial Conference in Cambodia in November.
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Scholarships totalling US$12,000 have been awarded to four members of IAWRT to help pay for attendance at courses or part-finance continuing studies.
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The IAWRT Board is recommending the funding of 13 short radio and television documentaries by women about women.
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IAWRT has had a very active and productive first six months of the 2009 financial year, with solid achievements against goals.
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Women in the media have a vital role to play during the current global financial crisis, according to Olya Booyar, the President of IAWRT.
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IAWRT member Ananya Chakraborti returns from Regional meeting in Moldova to scenes of cyclone devastation in Bangladesh. Read mo
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Women in radio and television around the globe have been urged to celebrate this year's World Press Freedom Day by combining honesty with compassion.
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The News Manual by Peter Henshall and David Ingram published
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An online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social deve
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On this occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), UNESCO launches the annual Women Make the News campaign and online forum.
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Over the years, open as well as latent conflicts between communities and within states have been occurring in countries of the Central African sub region.
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The International Women's Media Foundation has launched a new online workbook designed to help media trainers and journalists implement in-house training.
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Film South Asia, the festival of Southasian documentaries, calls for entries for the seventh edition of its biennial festival being held in Kathmandu from 17-20 September 2009.
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Benaz Batrawi, IAWRT member, writing from Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority Areas, offers a personal view from a Palestinian perspective of the recent fighting in Gaza.
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IAWRT sent the Prime Minister of Nepal condolences on the death of journalist Uma Singh and called for justice for her killers. Read the full text.
23 January 2009
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The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) has condemned the murder of young Nepalese radio journalist Uma Singh and has called
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While attending the Women in the land of Conflict conference in Oslo, the Board Executive took the opportunity to meet with the Norway Chapter at their premises in the NRK in Oslo.
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FOKUS - Forum for Women and Development, Networkers SouthNorth and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly hosted the Women in the Land of Conflict intern
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An association of international media professionals has called on both sides in the current conflict in Gaza to immediately abide by a United Nations resolution on peace
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Dear Friends, It is the end of another hectic but successful year for IAWRT, one in which you have each played a very important part and I thought I might run through it a bit to remind you how muc
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The National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) and the New Mexico Tourism Department will be staging the inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival on April 15-18, 2008. Click here for more
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Please submit your film for FEMINA 's International Women's Film Festival, which will take place during May 13-18, 2008, at the CAIXA Cultural, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Only work directed by women in 2007 and 2008. Click here to read more
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Watch a moving video clip on Women News Network about global issues around human trafficking, literacy, discrimination, and empowerment ... "pursue your dreams no matter how hard the road to success". See video
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The 7th Ecocinema International Film Festival - to take place in Greece, from October 25 to November 1, 2007 - calls for documentary, fiction and animation films, features and shorts that focus on the ecology. Read more
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Journalists interested in HIV/AIDS can access a media guide in English, French, Tamil, Khmer and Tagalog. The guides were launched by the International Federation of Journalists. Get your copies here.
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The UN cites that children have the right to be protected from information that compromises their well-being.
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Invaluable list of resources where you can find funding for a wide range of media projects. The directory also has a search mechanism where you can Find a Funder. Click here for more.
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Uks was the first Civil Society Organization in Pakistan to launch a radio production house in July 2003. The most noteworthy feature of Uks Radio Project is that an all female team of journalists and broadcasters runs it. Read the story.
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Zimbabwean Violet Gonda was selected as one of 20 John S. Knight Fellows to study at Stanford during the 2007-08 academic year. Gonda is an exiled producer and presenter at SW Radio Africa in London.
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REAL NEWS is independent, with no funding from any government. It covers issues of our time: global warming, media monopolies, politics, faith, justice, human rights, corruption, satire and enourages fair debate. Watch video
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Watch a moving video clip on Women News Network about global issues around human trafficking, literacy, discrimination, and empowerment ... "pursue your dreams no matter how hard the road to success". Watch video
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UNESCO invites candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for a “notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom in the world, especially if this involved risk."
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A project spearheaded by three American and Canadian women of Ugandan origin who are members of Women in Film and Television International has been launched to help Ugandan filmmakers. Click here for more
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