GENDER NETWORKS AND MEDIA:
INTEGRATION AND MUTUAL EMPOWERMENT
Fourth International Conference
of Journalists
Organizer:
GenderМediaCaucasus,
Journalists’ Association, Georgia
Support:
Office for democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Organization for
Cooperation and Security in Europe (ODIHR)OSCE
Date:
July
1-3
июля,
2006
Location:
Kopala hotel,
Participating
countries:
Number
of participants:
40
- The Conference’s
Information Support:
The
First Channel of the Public TV of Georgia;
Inter-Press News agency, News Georgia agency, Radio Imedi, Green Wave radio, Imedi TV channel,
Rustavi-2 TV channel; newspapers: Rezonansi, Georgia Today, Argumenti i Fakti –
Tbilisi, Komsomolskaya Pravda in Georgia, Svobodnaya Gruzia, South Caucasus
Gender Network web-portal
PROGRAM
Day
ONE. Morning. 10.00-14.00
Gender
Activism and the Media: Adequacy of Coverage
Morning
session facilitator: Armenian
delegation
09.30-10.00.
Registration of participants.
10.00-10.50.
Conference opening.
Welcome
speech by the GenderМediaCaucasus Journalists’
Association.
Welcome
speech by Tiina Ilsen, Head of Gender Department, ODIHR
OSCE.
Welcome
speech by Lois A.
Herman,
Coordinator of the Women's UN Report
Network (WUNRN).
welcome
speech by Marina Tabukashvili, National Coordinator, Women’s Network, Open
Society Institute
10.50-11.00.
We
are
together
again!
Galina Petriashvili,
journalist,
GenderМediaCaucasus
Journalists’ Association president, Georgia.
CD-presentation,
documentary
11.00-11.20
Woman and Civil
Society in the region: what is desirable and what is real; challenges, dynamics
and perspectives. How do we cover
it? Review of the international collection of
Tamara Hovnatanyan,
journalist,
ProMedia-Gender NGO, leader,
11.20-11.40. Mass Effort of
Media Genderization: Global Three Weeks of Action (February 16–
Ruta Pels,
independent journalist, GMMP national coordinator in
11.40-12.10.
Coffee-Break
12.10-12.30.
WUNRN Gender Global Program
& ListServe - Women's UN Report Network - Bringing issues of women and girls
local, national, regional, to international awareness and actions.
Media
links to the United Nations system and international
law.
Lois A. Herman,,
Coordinator
of the Women's UN Report Network
Power Point presentation
12.30-12.45.
Coalition
of Women’s NGOs of
Media
participation: critical analysis.
Diana
Mikadze, member of the Women’s NGOs Coalition’s media-service,
12.45-13.00.
Genderization
of Professional Journalists’
Nadezhda
Azhgikhina, chairwoman, Journalists’ Union of Russia, member of Gender Council of International
Federation of Journalists,
13.00-13.15. Women to women –
experience of networking, social KFINFO social organization (
Co-existence
of cultures, example of immigrants in
Alma
Bekturganova-Andersen, independent journalist, leader, World’s Women in
13.15-13.30.
Men’s Topic within gender and its coverage by
media.
Vladimir
Khanas, Head of Men’s
13.30-14.00
Questions and discussing. Pre-registration
for
comments.
14.00-15.00.
Lunch
Continuation
of DAY ONE. Evening. 15.00-18.00
Regional
and International Networks: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Evening
session facilitator: delegation of
15.00-15.15.
Networking or
Not-working: networking as a tool.
History,
critical analysis of activities, perspectives of strengthening.
Olga Lipovskaya,
independent journalist, translator, critic,
15.15-15.30.
Joint Past As a Base for Mutual Empowerment.
Women
of countries in transition and their challenges. Media participation in the
fight and the work.
Marina
Tabukashvili, National Coordinator, Women’s Network Program, Open Society
Institute.
15.30-15.45.
Network
East-West Women (NEWW): trauma and the will to recover, regional
cooperation of women in post-Socialist countries, problems of integration into
the world’s women movement. Media as an ally.
Malgorzata
Tarasiewicz, leader of NEWW network,
PP
presentation
.
15.45-16.00.
KARAT
Coalition and its national links: how do we work together?
Critical analysis of cooperation. Personal media-component in the work.
Joanna Szabuńko,
Communication Officer KARAT Coalition
16.00-16.15.
National
Organization as a part of the global world.
Why do we need international cooperation?
How do we use the resources of our friends and how can we help
them?
Mehriban
Zeinalova, head of legal organization Clear World,
16.15-16.30.
Founding women’s
networks: possibilities
to adopt European experience. Inter-institutional cooperation within civil
sector.
Lilit Zakaryan,
16.30-17.00.
Questions
and discussing. Pre-registration for comments.
17.00-17.30.
Group
work. Work at initiative proposals for the future.
Break
until 19.00.
19.00-21.00 Presentation
of:
- The Fourth international
Conference – Gender Networks and Media: Integration and Mutual
Empowerment,
- Women and
Society,international publication, collection of articles,
- Women of
- Women’s Dialogue Magazine,
issue #3,
- Project of three
- Award ceremony for the best
coverage of the Women’s NGO Coalition activities will also take place at the
presentaion.
Invited: conference
participants, Tbilisi-based media workers, Women’s NGO Coalition members, heads
of press services, representatives of international organizations, leaders and
activists of non-governmental sector
Day
TWO. Morning.
10.00-14.00
Regional
and International networks: Relevance to Challenges
Morning
session facilitator: delegation of
10.00-10.15. Challenge:
ethno-political conflicts. Critical
analysis of
Nina
Tsikhistavi, member, Gender Expert Board of ODIHR OSCE, Network of Caucasus
Women,
10.15-10.30.
Challenge: state
stepping on the civil rights. NGO as an
institute of resistance
Nadezhda
Azhgikhina, chairwoman, Journalists Union of Russia
10.30-10.45. Challenge: pseudo-democracy. State’s total
pressure on NGO and medias.
10.45-11.00. Challenge: Islamism. Women’s rights
against radical ideologies, hot spots of pressure and abilities of effective
protection. Specialties of Islam coverage by
Nina
Yerkaeva,
11.00-11.15
Challenge:
terrorism.
Being
at a minefield: women journalist in conflict zones.
Maria
Osipova, expert on military-civil relations,
11.15-11.30. Challenge:
pressure on reproductive rights.
Defense of the
rights in
Elwira
Chrusciel, ASTRA, International Association on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Secretariat,
Federation for Women and Family Planning,
11.30-11.45.
Questions and discussing. Pre-registration for comments.
11.45-12.15.
Coffee-break
12.15-14.00. Session of
documentaries shot by
12.15-13.00.
Discussing.
13.00-13.30.
Alma
Bekturganova -
Discussing.
13.30-14.00. Giorgi Chkonia,
Discussing.
14.00-15.00.Lunch.
Continuation
of DAY TWO. Evening. 15.00-18.00
Experience
of Cooperation with Media and the Reserves of Increasing Networking Efficiency
Facilitator
of evening session: delegation of Russia
15.00-15.15.
Civil
Forum in
Nina Yerkaeva,
15.15-15.30. Different but Equal project. Experience of
promoting gender equality ideas through the network of non-state radio stations.
Marina
Perekrestova,
15.30-15.45.
Galina
Petriashvili, magazine editor,
15.45-16.00.
International
magazine WE/МЫ: Women’s
Dialogue: development of the project. Critical
analysis.
Nadezhda
Azhgikhina, project founder,
16.00-16.15.
Breaking
stereotypes!
STOP-DISCRIM,
action of Georgian journalists:
journalists against discrimination in pop-culture.
Darejan
Odilavadze, GenderMediaCaucasus Journalists’ Association
CD-presentation
16.15-16.35.
Think
major! Perspectives of
establishing alarming networks to let know
about the threats through women’s NGOs and gender-oriented medias. Necessity of
civil (parliamentary) control over army and defence system.
Maria Osipova,
independent journalist, expert of military-civil relations,
16.35-17.00. Questions
and discussing. Pre-registration for comments.
17.00-17.30.
Break
17.30-18.00.
Group
working at proposals for the future
Day
THREE
Planning
Future Activities of
Facilitator
of the day: delegation of Armenia
10.00-12.00.
Working
session
·
Analysis
of the third conference – what failed to be implemented and why. Tamara
Hovnatanyan,
· Results
of group work, mini-presentations (20 minutes)
· Analysis
of proposals made by the groups. Alma Bekturganova-Andersen,
·
Discussing
new initiatives. Maria Osipova,
·
Strengthening
national journalists’ groups within CaucAsia; how to achieve this goal?
12.00-12.30.
Coffee-break
12.30-14.00.
Working
debate on the future cooperation of journalists:
·
CaucAsia
magazine.
·
WE/МЫ: Women’s
Dialogue magazine.
·
Woman and
Society portal, www.owl.ru
as an information resource for women of post-soviet countries.
·
Upcoming Forum
of International Federation of Journalists in Moscow
(2007).
·
Other
perspectives.
14.00-15.00.
Lunch
15.00-15.30.
Summing
up the results of the conference. Approval of the result
documents.
15.30-16.00.
Closing
of the
conference.