Women in Action articles from April 2004

Women in Action archives from April 2004

For whom media speaks: the paucity of today's ICT explosion.(editorial)
April 1, 2004... "Never have so many been held incommunicado by so few." These words of Eduardo Galeano, the Uruguayan writer considered to be one of Latin America's fiercest voices of social conscience, best describe the impact of globalised and...

Government tackles tradition of girl-brides.(clips)
April 1, 2004... In impoverished Burkina Faso, girls as young as eight are married off to men often older than their own fathers. But the government is now trying to eradicate this practice, alarmed by the continuing emergence of pregnancy complications in...

Tens of thousands of girls fighting on front lines.(clips)
April 1, 2004... Tens of thousands of young girls are fighting on frontlines across the developing world, and not just serving as cooks and sex slaves to male soldiers, according to a recent study. "There is a tendency to over-classify girls in the countries...

Amid terrorism fears, activists see more repression.(clips)
April 1, 2004... Despite Japan's vaunted social harmony, the rise in global terrorism is fast slamming the door shut on grassroots activism in the country, say human rights groups. A recent case, criticised by Amnesty International Japan, involves the...

Teenage abortions on the rise.(clips)
April 1, 2004... Teenage abortions are on the rise in Kyrgyzstan, with young women from rural areas being particularly prone to unwanted pregnancies due to a lack of awareness about the risks of unprotected sex, combined with their traditional upbringing. ...

Job equality elusive for women.
April 1, 2004... Although women are entering the workforce in unprecedented numbers, they still face higher unemployment rates, lower wages and barriers to entering high-level positions. According to "Global Employment Trends for Women 2004," an analysis of...

Globalisation and media: making feminist sense.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... I have been asked to examine Globalisation and Media in ways that will help us make connections between these two phenomena and how these affect women's lives. I am glad that this conversation is happening in the context of the World Social...

IT in India: social revolution or approaching implosion?(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... JAGORI (which means "wake up, woman") was started by a group of seven feminists (six women and one man!) in 1984, and is a women's resource, communication and documentation centre. Our mandate is to meet the information needs of Indian women's...

When technology, media, and globalisation conspire: old threats, new prospects.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... Globalisation Through a Feminist Lens Feminist frameworks are critical to the discourse of globalisation because these explore how patriarchies combine with the capitalist project. Feminist scholarship has delineated how the strategies of...

False and real differences: alternative and mainstream media in Latin America.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... At first glance, an invitation to speak on behalf of FIRE in Costa Rica, about the intersectionality of militarisation, fundamentalism and global communication would seem ironic. First, because Costa Rica is one of two countries in the world...

Choices we (must) make for ourselves: women and transnational media.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... At the annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) in March 2003, one of the themes under discussion was women, the media and ICTs. The conclusions arising from these discussions were to be fed into the...

Media and ICT systems, globalisation, militarism and fundamentalisms.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)(Information and Communication Technology )
April 1, 2004... The ICT systems, seen as a global 'open space' for information, have been a driving force for globalisation. Do these technologies promote global integration or segregation? Can they be used to advocate peace or militarism? Two aspects of their...

Knowledge economy: does it come with a knowledge society?(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... The euphoria over India's meteoric rise as a knowledge society and information superpower needs a reality-check. Unpacking the phenomenon requires that we reposition our theories and projections for the knowledge economy or the IT industry in...

Recalling the past, looking to the future.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... What were some of the analyses, positions and strategies of feminists in the early years of the women's movement as we faced the challenges of transnational media and emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs)? Are these of any...

Common agenda, different methods: women's use of ICTS in conflict situations.(corporatised media and ICT structures and systems)
April 1, 2004... "It the American demonstrations are sometimes ignored by their own mainstream media, who are we, scattered all over villages in Africa, to expect our issues to attract their screens and cameras?" This question was what inspired Isis-Women's...

WILMA: making a difference.(Web-enabled Isis Library Management Automation)
April 1, 2004... In the current regime of globalised media, male-dominated information and communication structures, and crass commercialism, the library system of Isis International-Manila seems a puny effort. But this system--the Web-enabled Isis Library...

Asian Women in the Information Age: New Communication Technology, Democracy and Women.(Books)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Asian Women in the Information Age: New Communication Technology, Democracy and Women. Edited by Ila Joshi Each successive wave of New Communication Technologies (NCTs) claims to herald a new democratic age, promising greater awareness...

Communication Rights: Fourth Generation of Human Rights? Human Rights in the Information Society.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Communication Rights: Fourth Generation of Human Rights? Human Rights in the Information Society. By Saeid N. Neshat The book consists of two papers: Communication Rights: Human Rights in the Information Society: From Exclusion to...

Communication Works.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Communication Works By Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael Gamble Communication is not just words, paint on canvas, math symbols or the equations and models of scientists; it is the interrelation of human beings trying to escape loneliness,...

Facing the Challenges of Corporate Globalization: Role of Media and Information, Communication Technology.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Facing the Challenges of Corporate Globalization: Role of Media and Information, Communication Technology By Ahmed Swapan Mahmud The book underscores how ICTs are certainly an important tool in development (education, culture, health,...

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television By Jerry Mander Imagining a world free of television. Author Jerry Mander envisions only beneficial effects: Whatever is lost because we can no longer see fuzzy and reduced versions of...

I On the Mouse: ICTs for Women's Advocacies and Networking in Asia and the Pacific.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... I On the Mouse: ICTs for Women's Advocacies and Networking in Asia and the Pacific By Asian Women's Resource Exchange The Internet, and electronic and computer technologies have not only expanded advocacy activities, research,...

Media as a Battlefield: Coverage of the War in Iraq.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Media as a Battlefield: Coverage of the War in Iraq Edited by Florangel Rosario-Braid and Ramon R. Tuazon The war in Iraq will be remembered for "embedded journalists," real-time 24-hour media coverage, introduction of two Middle East...

The Right to Know: Access to Information in Southeast Asia.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Right to Know: Access to Information in Southeast Asia Edited with an introduction by Sheila S. Coronel The Right to Know documents the state of access to information in eight countries in Southeast Asia such as Burma, Cambodia,...

Voices from Africa: Information and Communication Technologies, Issue No. 9.(Books)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Voices from Africa: Information and Communication Technologies, Issue No. 9 Compiled by United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Services (NGLS) Since the end of the 1980s, a new era of possibilities concerning information and...

NGO_Women@asia.net: the Use of Information and Communication Technologies.(Books)(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... NGO_Women@asia.net: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies 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...

Web resources.(isis resources)(Directory)
April 1, 2004... ASMITA ASMITA Women's Publishing House, Media and Resource Organization is a Nepal-based NGO that seeks to fill the gap in participation, representation and access to media of women. ASMITA, which means "identity" and "dignity," is a...

Information for whom?(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A review of Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite, Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy?. London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2002. How much do we know about what we know? In their book Information Feudalism, Drahos and...

Words on the Web.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... A review of Gan, Steven, James Gome and Uwe Johannen, Asian Cyberactivism: Freedom of Expression and Media Censorship Rarely is the intent for which an invention was designed retained by human endeavour. Even radio, an invention more than a...

I want my real mommy on TV: mother images on Philippine TV in the last fifty years.(media section)
April 1, 2004... Television as a medium is young, and our history as viewers is also young. Only a few generations of our families have been exposed to more or less fifty years of television fare, compared with a hundred years of cinema and centuries of art and...