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WORLD RADIO DAY 2014 - ACCESS TO
INFORMATION, GENDER EQUALITY, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
13 February is World Radio Day — a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information, freedom of expression and gender equality over the airwaves.
© UNESCO/Yusuph Al-Amin - Maasai girl holding a solar/wind radio while taking care of livestock, Terrat, Tanzania.
As radio continues to evolve in the digital age, it remains the
medium that reaches the widest audience worldwide. It is essential to
furthering UNESCO’s commitment to promote gender equality and women’s
empowerment.
Through World Radio Day celebrations around the world, UNESCO
will promote gender equality by:
- Sensitizing radio station owners,
executives, journalists, and governments to develop gender-related
policies and strategies for radio
- Eliminating stereotypes and
promoting multidimensional portrayal in radio
- Building radio skills for youth radio production,
with a focus on young women as producers, hosts, reporters
- Promoting Safety of women radio
journalists
We invite all countries to celebrate World Radio Day by planning activities in partnership with regional, national and international broadcasters, non-governmental organizations, the media and the public.
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