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AMARC - World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters
AMARC-WIN - AMARC Women's International
Network
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Lys Anzia / Women News Network -- Jan 17,
2007
AMARC, the World Association
of Community Radio Broadcasters is an international NGO for women working in
the field of worldwide community radio. On January 17-19, 2007,
AMARC will be participating in the Third International Feminist Dialogues
in Nairobi,
Kenya. AMARC
currently has 110 member countries and almost 3,000 individual members who
are dedicated to the "right to communicate" as stated during the 1990 AMARC
World Conference in Dublin,
Ireland.
AMARC's Women’s International Network /
WIN is a large assembly
working together to ensure women's rights to communicate through and within
the international community radio movement.
- WIN works for women's rights to
communicate as a basic human right expressed through community radio.
- WIN supports women’s empowerment,
gender equity, and a general improvement in the condition and position of
women worldwide.
- WIN promotes women’s access to all
levels of community radio, including decision making.
- WIN supports women’s efforts to
express themselves within and beyond their communities, by providing training
programs and production exchanges at the international and local level.
- WIN aims to change negative images
of both women and men in the media and to challenge stereotypes being
reproduced by media all around the world.
- WIN subscribes to the principles
of the Beijing Platform for Action.
The current Conference in Nairobi,
Kenya, called “Transforming Democracy: Feminist
Visions and Strategies” will bring together 250 women to continue and deepen the
global feminist discussion. This meeting takes place just before the World
Social Forum, also in Nairobi, January 20-25. AMARC also will be in
attendance during the World Social Forum Nairobi 2007.
For more information on the
conference in Nairobi please visit:
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-Lys Anzia, of Women News Network,
is a news journalist covering stories for international
human rights and women's advocacy. She is also a radio broadcast journalist
for WINGS - Women's International News Gathering Service, a radio news syndicate
based out of Vancouver, Canada.
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-Sources for this article include
the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, the World Social Forum in
Nairobi, Kenya and AMARC - Women's
International Network.
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