Women in Action articles from April 2002

Women in Action archives from April 2002

In the eyes of media: the world as we are made to believe it. (Editorial).
April 1, 2002... No Single event contemporary history has drawn as much attention from the world's social institutions and actors as the September 11 attack on New York and Washington. In addition to massive media coverage, various efforts including...

Exchange agreement. (Letter To The Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2002... The Farm Radio Network would like to regularly receive the print version of your periodical Women in Action, which contains information very relevant to the audiences of our rural radio broadcast partners. We will be pleased to exchange our...

Programme for people with disabilities. (Letter To The Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2002... I read on the Website of Women in Action this particularly sensitising and educating article by Dinah Radtke entitled "Girls and Women with Disabilities Speak Out." We are just beginning a new programme in the most neglected field of the...

Request from group offering rural services. (Letter To The Editor).(Letter to the Editor)
April 1, 2002... I heard about your fine magazine on women's welfare and women's rights. My group is based here in India where we have been delivering rural services for the poor for the past 13 years. I am very much interested in the information you publish....

Academics say women should be part of peace talks. (Clips).
April 1, 2002... NEW YORK--Nine months after the 9/11 attack in America, academics, activists and policy makers are just beginning to ask difficult questions about the global crisis and explore ways to ease tensions between America and people around the world...

Asia, Africa lead in putting children to work: ILO. (Clips).
April 1, 2002... UNITED NATIONS--One child in every six has been put to work world-wide, despite international efforts to tackle the problem, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The Asia-Pacific region is home to the world's largest...

Fear feeding Islamophobia, says report. (Clips).
April 1, 2002... BRUSSELS--Fear of Islam has led to increased hostilities against Muslims in the European Union after the terrorist attacks on the U.S., a new report shows. The report "Islamophobia in the EU after 11 September 2001" was released by the...

"Terrorism," as interpreted in media: the pitfalls. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... To quite many people, Islam and terrorism are synonymous. The media, too has not helped demystify the perceived link between Islam and terrorism, thereby creating a misconception that Muslims are inherently terrorists. The situation has not...

Blaming the victims: American media and the Israel/Palestine conflict. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... For the past ten years, I have listened faithfully to National Public Radio (NPR), a station supported largely through the financial contributions of its listeners. Many Americans bemoan the pits that most of our news agencies have sunk into in...

The female militant romanticised. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... What is known of the woman militant or the woman suicide bomber? The relatively superficial accounts in the global and local media appear to reflect worryingly narrow and instrumental perceptions of these women. Within these, there appear to be...

8/11, from a different perspective: interview with Nawal El Saadawi and Sherif Hatata. (How Media Creates Enemies).(Interview)
April 1, 2002... Nawal El Saadawi is an Egyptian novelist, psychiatrist and writer. Her novels and her books on the women in Egyptian and Arab society have had a deep effect on successive generations of young women around the world. Throughout her life, Nawal...

Courting disaster: Pakistan's role in the war on terror. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... The role played by the Pakistan government in the U.S.-led campaign to overthrow the Taliban regime is one of the most abrupt policy turnarounds in the recent history of the region. Even before the Taliban were accused of harbouring Osama bin...

Pakistan media under religious extremism. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... Perhaps, the most tragic example of the hazards faced by the media operating under the heavy cloud of religious fundamentalism in Pakistan is the kidnap and murder of The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The South Asia bureau chief...

Media's indifference to Afghan crisis: why is the mainstream media ignoring the mass death of Afghan civilians? (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... It is a long-standing tradition of free-press reporting to glare intensely at atrocities committed by `them' while flashing the briefest of glances at atrocities committed by `us.' Cognitive dissonance is a necessary feature of this kind of...

"Saving" Afghan women. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... As I got ready to be interviewed by Helen Caldicott, the famous Helen Caldicott, activist and feminist, I remarked to my fellow interviewee how excited I was to be speaking with one of my heroes. I had heard Helen on the radio and read articles...

War on reality TV. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... Last February, leading television stations in Manila showed gory video footage of alleged Filipino Muslim extremists belonging to the dreaded Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) beheading victims--supposedly captured soldiers. The video, aired on...

Civil society and media: partnership possibilities. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... Cultural and religious intolerance have been responsible for conflicts and violence that have broken out in a number of countries. The article looks at how civil society can use the media to promote cultural diversity and religious tolerance....

Media and the carnage in India. (How Media Creates Enemies).
April 1, 2002... India celebrated fifty years of its parliament on 13 May 2002. India has for a long time prided itself in her democratic and secular politics. But the last two months of attacks against the Muslim minority in Gujarat, a western state of India,...

Women and Gender in Population and Development.
April 1, 2002... The 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo and the 1995 UN Fourth World Conference on Women (UNFWC) in Beijing focused global attention on the reproductive health rights of women and gender-equity concerns....

Urban Girls: Empowerment in Especially Difficult Circumstances.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The hardships of urban lives in many parts of the world are acute--more so for girls and young women. Because of their age, their gender, their poverty, and perhaps also their ethnicity, girls face a compound disadvantage as cultural mores and...

Women, Globalisation and Fragmentation in Developing World.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The process of globalisation has had a dramatic impact on the lives of women in developing countries in the past decade. They have been increasingly drawn into insecure, flexible employment for the world market. The feminisation of the labour...

Gender: budget Trail: the Philippine Experience.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This book is the result of research undertaken by the Asia Foundation and partner organisations in the Philippines. Gender is a core theme of the work of the Foundation and it admires the achievements of the women's movement in the Philippines....

Getting Institutions Right for Women in Development.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Gender and Development' or `Women in Development' policies have been promoted in development organisations for almost three decades now, but often, the feminist visions for these policies fall away as they are processed through development...

Human Development Report 2001.
April 1, 2002... By the United Nations Development Programme Today people all over the World have high hopes that new technologies such as information and communications technology and biotechnology will lead to healthier lives, greater social freedoms,...

Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... In the wake of the Fourth World Conference on Women this volume brings together leading gender and development scholars who look into the last 20 years of work in this area. Feminist Visions of Development throws fresh light on key issues...

Transforming the Mainstream: Building a Gender Responsive Bureaucracy in the Philippines, 1975-1998.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Edited by Rina Jimenez-David Transforming the Mainstream traces the long and varied history of the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW) from its early days as a traditional women's organisation to its pioneering work...

Food Security and Markets in Indonesia: State-Private Sector Interaction in Rice Trade.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Food Security and Markets in Indonesia originates from a combined policy research and advocacy project entitled "Food Security and Markets in Southeast Asia: State-Private Sector Interaction in Rice Trade" by the Management and Organizational...

Gender, Politics and Communication.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This book focuses on three interrelated sets of questions regarding gender, politics and communication: How do serious and popular media alike represent female politicians, how do they frame their politics, and how can these...

NGO Women@asia.net: the Use of Information and Communication Technologies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... By Women's Organisations in Seven Asian Countries: A Regional Study This Asia research report is part of a wider regional study initiated by the Asian Women's Resource Exchange network and sponsored by the United Nations Economic and...

Women's Organizations and their Use of Information and Communication Technologies in the Caucasus and Central Asian Region: An Exploratory Assessment.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This study is still part of the broader research project covering Asia, the Pacific, and the Caucasus and Central Asia cited above. The research was organised by Isis International-Manila for the Asia portion of the study; the Association for...

Walking the Tightrope: Press Freedom and Professional Standards in Asia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The theme of freedom and professional standards is of interest in the region, both for the criticism coming from the outside and for the concern voiced from within. Many Western proponents of pluralism seek to promote Western-style press...

Raising Women's Voices for Peacebuilding: Vision, Impact, and Limitations of Media Technologies.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The book explores how women use communication technologies in their quest for peace. It documents their experience from their own perspectives and provides an analytical framework to understand the challenges women face in using these tools to...

Girlnet: a Girls' Guide to the Internet and More!(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This book is a guide for girls on how to find useful and interesting stuff for free. It provides information on the "coolest websites with the coolest gossip," as well as tips on E-mail etiquette, cyber shortcuts and emoticons. Girlnet is...

News for Sale: the Corruption of the Philippine Media. (Isis Resource).(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The study, a joint endeavour of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), compares the current corruption of media to that of the past, and concludes that media...

Turning It On: a Reader in Women and Media.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... The critique of the media has been a central concern of feminism from the early days of the movement. Feminist media studies have subsequently broadened to produce more complex accounts of media representation and practices, and developed into...

E-Writing: 21st-Century Tools for Effective Communication.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... In an era when written communication in the workplace is more crucial than ever, and at a time when many professionals all but completely eschew face-to-face dealings, E-writing is designed to be the authoritative how-to manual on business...

Women in Communication: a Biographical Sourcebook.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This book is a biographic and bibliographic sourcebook that features an array of communications specialists holding myriad positions. Many of those profiled speak of substantial academic credentials, and scholarly and administrative...

Media Studies: a Reader (2nd Edition).(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Media Studies is an introduction to the theoretical perspectives on the mass media for the past 30 years--from the arguments between the American mass communication tradition and the Europe-centered Frankfurt school of the 1940s, to the...

Connection with Communities: a Sourcebook on Public Journalism.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This sourcebook is road map for journalists wishing to expand their coverage, add depth to their news perspective, and write the kind of stories that could help them transform communities into self-determining ones. It also presents through six...

101 Things You Need to Know about Internet Law.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... This book is an accessible guide to the legal issues and answers in all facets of e-commerce, from making purchases online to advertising one's new Website: It includes essential information about Internet-related contracts, taxes, rights,...

Drive-by Journalism: the Assault on Your Need to Know.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Has the Internet created a new form of corporate media with unparalleled political power? Veteran journalist Arthur E. Rowse provides a convincing case that the forces propelling the ascendance of a powerful corporate media was at work long...

Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Geneva 2000: The Next Step in Social Development, 26-30 June 2000, combines the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on the Implementation of the World Summit for Social Development with the Geneva 2000 Forum. Called the "World...

Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Too much confidence in the "invisible hand" of unregulated markets has been matched by too little understanding of the necessary relations between public policy and development. Efficient markets require the contributions of a well-run public...

Gender Mainstreaming in Development Planning: a Reference Manual for Governments and Other Stakeholders.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Gender mainstreaming, the current international approach to promoting equality between women and men, stems from a recognition of gender inequality at all levels and in all sectors of society. A gender perspective and gender-sensitive policies...

Media web resources. (Isis Resource).(Bibliography)
April 1, 2002... girls, women + media project The Girls, Women + Media Project is a non-profit network initiative seeking to increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women, and to advocate for...

WEDPRO's Halfway Through the Circle.(Book Review)
April 1, 2002... Prostitutes. We hear a lot about them, their industry, their supposed lifestyles, the risks they bear, and their morality. Yet very rarely do we learn about the facts of prostitution as it affects the sex worker. Halfway Through the Circle...

Women, neoliberal policies and the ICT revolution. (ICT Section).
April 1, 2002... The 1998/1999 World Bank Report on Knowledge for Development, by and large, persuades developing countries to reform, reconstruct, and readjust their institutional arrangements, prepare their future workers, and establish information...

Cloning debate splits women's health movement. (Health Section).
April 1, 2002... WASHINGTON--Women's health groups are at odds over a proposed bill that bans human cloning for reproductive and research purposes. There is broad support among women's groups for banning anyone from creating embryos with the intent of...

Cancer risks in French fries, bread. (Health Section).
April 1, 2002... STOCKHOLM--Basic foods eaten by millions around the world such as bread, biscuits, potato chips and french fries contain alarmingly high quantities of acrylamide, a substance believed to cause cancer, Swedish scientists said. The research,...