Subject: [fem-women2000 606] Women's Globalnet #167: Women Make the News 2001
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:17:01 -0800
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IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET #167 Initiatives and Activities of Women Worldwide by Anne S. Walker March 5, 2001 WOMEN MAKE THE NEWS 2001: UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have launched the operation "Women Make the News 2001" to call on print, broadcast and electronic media world-wide to place news under the editorial responsibility of women journalists for a full week (March 5 to 11) to mark International Women's Day, March 8. The Web-based operation is designed to draw attention to the fact that, although the number of women in the media is increasing, they are all too few to rise to top positions. By stressing this point, UNESCO is reaffirming the commitment made at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing (China) in 1995 to promote equal professional opportunity for women. Women Make the News was first launched on International Women's Day last year when UNESCO Director-General, Ko$B}D(Bhiro Matsuura, made an appeal to the world's media to have women take editorial responsibility for the day. Many international organizations supported the initiative and issued messages backing the operation. Massive support was registered by media organizations. More than 1,000 media from 56 countries took part in the operation and many asked for a similar, but longer, initiative in 2001. This year, UNESCO invited the International Federation of Journalists to become a partner in the week-long operation. The IFJ is the world's largest organization of journalists with some 450,000 members in more than 100 countries. It promotes international action to defend press freedom and issues such as equal opportunities for men and women. In June 2001, the IFJ will organize a global conference for women journalists, Equality and Quality: Women in the Media, as part of the IFJ World Congress in Seoul (Korea). On this occasion, the results of a joint IFJ/UNESCO survey on the status of women journalists will be released. UNESCO and the IFJ believe that it is up to each media organization to determine how it carries out the one-week Women Make the News operation. Last year, for example, some media, for March 8, appointed women editors-in-chief or named them head of newspaper sections, while others chose to publish special features on issues related to women and the media. Media organizations are invited to register their participation in the initiative through the UNESCO website at: http://www.unesco.org/march8 . The site contains the IFJ/UNESCO questionnaire on the status of women. Reactions and proposals are also welcome on the website. INDICATE YOUR PARTICIPATION BY FILLING IN THE FORM AT: http://www.unesco.org/march8 or by e-mail at: march8@unesco.org IWTC Women's GlobalNet is a production of: International Women's Tribune Centre 777 United Nations Plaza 3rd Floor New York, NY 10017, USA Tel: (1-212) 687-8633 Fax: (1-212) 661-2704 Email: <iwtc@iwtc.org> Web: <http://www.iwtc.org> You can subscribe to this list at any time by sending a blank message to: <iwtc-womensglobalnet-subscribe@igc.topica.com> You can unsubscribe to this list at any time by sending a blank message to: <iwtc-womensglobalnet-unsubscribe@igc.topica.com> WOMEN, INK. For quality, cutting-edge publications on women and development by, for and about women worldwide, see Women, Ink's catalogue at : <http://www.womenink.org>. Or contact Women, Ink. at 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel: Yasna Uberoi (1-212) 687-8633 ext 212 or Mary Wong (1-212) 687-8633 ext 204. Fax: (1-212) 661-2704. E-mail: <wink@womenink.org> Women, Ink. is a project of IWTC ____________________________________________________________ T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 _________________________________________________________________________ fem-Women2000@jca.apc.org for Women 2000, UN Special Session on Beijing+5 Searcheable Archive http://www.jca.apc.org/fem/news/women2000/index.shtml visit fem-net HomePage for other mailing lists http://www.jca.apc.org/fem