2020 Asian Women's Film Festival
The act of listening and seeing
Articulating the way women shape and subvert the world
News
18 Feb 2020
IAWRT CSW 64 Parallel Event: Women and the Media
IAWRT's parallel event at the 64th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) is on Women and Media: Addressing progress in media coverage of women and media's role 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The discussion takes place on 11 March, 4:30pm at United Nations Church Center, 10th floor.
10 Feb 2020
Philippines
Free Frenchie Mae Cumpio, IAWRT Philippines member
The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) joins media groups calling for the immediate release of Frenchie Mae Cumpio, a member of the IAWRT Philippines chapter.
24 Jan 2020
United States
How to Create a Gender-equal World
NGO CSW monthly meeting in January discussed creating a gender-equal world through participation and accountability
by Marry Ferreira Busquet
22 Dec 2019
Philippines
Massacre Convictions a Decade on
Sentences passed on those responsible for murdering 58 people, including 32 journalists, have been welcomed.
19 Dec 2019
Justice for Ampatuan massacre victims
Justice for all journalist killings:
Statement as the Philippines, and the world, awaited the the verdict in the Ampatuan massacre, after 10 years of waiting.
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18 Feb 2020
IAWRT CSW 64 Parallel Event: Women and the Media
IAWRT's parallel event at the 64th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW64) is on Women and Media: Addressing progress in media coverage of women and media's role 25 years after the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The discussion takes place on 11 March, 4:30pm at United Nations Church Center, 10th floor.
27 Jan 2020
2020 Asian Women's Film Festival
"If you listen closely you can hear many tongues speaking in unison, in a cacophony, in rhythm, sometimes with its own beat. As filmmakers we go out into the world to record these voices in the hope they will never be lost."
This year 52 films from 15 countries have been selected from more than 700 entries to the 16th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival. It will be held at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi on March 4, 5, 6 and 7.
24 Jan 2020
United States
How to Create a Gender-equal World
NGO CSW monthly meeting in January discussed creating a gender-equal world through participation and accountability
by Marry Ferreira Busquet
NGO CSW Forum
The sixty-fourth session of the Commission on the Status of Women is to be held at the UN in New York from 9 to 20 March 2020.
22 Dec 2019
Philippines
Massacre Convictions a Decade on
Sentences passed on those responsible for murdering 58 people, including 32 journalists, have been welcomed.
19 Dec 2019
Justice for Ampatuan massacre victims
Justice for all journalist killings:
Statement as the Philippines, and the world, awaited the the verdict in the Ampatuan massacre, after 10 years of waiting.
24 Nov 2019
End Rape - Eliminate Violence against Women
UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Statement for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, 25 November
18 Nov 2019
Iraq
IAWRT Iraq-Kurdistan on unrest in Iraq
Media and women are being targeted in the midst of a governmet crackdown on mass demonstrations.
Our Iraq Kurdistan chapter reports that the targeting is happeneing as thousands of Iraqis demonstrate against government corruption, failing state services and a lack of job opportunities.
7 Nov 2019
Gender in Journalism and Media Studies
Countless women still experience fear and are threatened when exercising their rights to freedom of expression on the internet despite the United Nations recognition that such rights are the same online as in real life.
Female journalists, for example, have many negative experiences with online expression and this is one of the reasons for the Workshop on Teaching Gender in Journalism and Media Studies was organised in Indonesia.
By Lynda Garcia