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IAWRT member Ananya Chakraborti returns from Regional meeting in Moldova to scenes of cyclone devastation in Bangladesh.  Read mo

Women in radio and television around the globe have been urged to celebrate this year's World Press Freedom Day by combining honesty with compassion.

An online space for sharing the experiences of, and building bridges between, the people and organisations engaged in or supporting communication as a fundamental strategy for economic and social deve

On this occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), UNESCO launches the annual Women Make the News campaign and online forum.

Over the years, open as well as latent conflicts between communities and within states have been occurring in countries of the Central African sub region.

The International Women's Media Foundation has launched a new online workbook designed to help media trainers and journalists implement in-house training.

Film South Asia, the festival of Southasian documentaries, calls for entries for the seventh edition of its biennial festival being held in Kathmandu from 17-20 September 2009.

Benaz Batrawi, IAWRT member, writing from Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority Areas, offers a personal view from a Pale

23 January 2009

Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal
Prime Minister's office
Singha Durbar
Kathmandu
NEPAL

Dear Mr Dahal,

The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT) has condemned the murder of young Nepalese radio journalist Uma Singh and has called

The News Manual by Henshall and Ingram was originally publis

IAWRT President and Treasurer visit the studios of the Democratic Voice of Burma.

While attending the Women in the land of Conflict conference in Oslo, the Board Executive took the opportunity to meet with the Norway Chapter at their premises in the NRK in Oslo.

FOKUS - Forum for Women and Development, Networkers SouthNorth and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affair

An association of international media professionals has called on both sides in the current conflict in Gaza to immediately abide by a United Nations resolution on peace

Dear Friends, It is the end of another hectic but successful year for IAWRT, one in which you have each played a very important part and I thought I might run through it a bit to remind you how muc

The National Tribal Environmental Council (NTEC) and the New Mexico Tourism Department will be staging the inaugural Global Green Indigenous Film Festival on April 15-18, 2008. Click here for more

Please submit your film for FEMINA 's­ International Women's Film Festival, which will take place during May 13-18, 2008, at the CAIXA Cultural, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Only work directed by women in 2007 and 2008. Click here to read more

Watch a moving video clip on Women News Network about global issues around human trafficking, literacy, discrimination, and empowerment ... "pursue your dreams no matter how hard the road to success". See video

The 7th Ecocinema International Film Festival - to take place in Greece, from October 25 to November 1, 2007 - calls for documentary, fiction and animation films, features and shorts that focus on the ecology. Read more

Journalists interested in HIV/AIDS can access a media guide in English, French, Tamil, Khmer and Tagalog. The guides were launched by the International Federation of Journalists. Get your copies here.

The UN cites that children have the right to be protected from information that compromises their well-being. Shari maintains that the climate of commercial media advertising tramples on this fundamental right. Click here for more.

Invaluable list of resources where you can find funding for a wide range of media projects. The directory also has a search mechanism where you can Find a Funder. Click here for more.

Uks was the first Civil Society Organization in Pakistan to launch a radio production house in July 2003. The most noteworthy feature of Uks Radio Project is that an all female team of journalists and broadcasters runs it.
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Zimbabwean Violet Gonda was selected as one of 20 John S. Knight Fellows to study at Stanford during the 2007-08 academic year. Gonda is an exiled producer and presenter at SW Radio Africa in London.

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Watch a moving video clip on Women News Network about global issues around human trafficking, literacy, discrimination, and empowerment ... "pursue your dreams no matter how hard the road to success".
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Check out the 6th International Human Rights Film Festival of Paris, which is taking place from 26 March until 1 April 2008. The deadline for the submission of entries was 1 October 2007.
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UNESCO invites candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for a “notable contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom in the world, especially if this involved risk."

A project spearheaded by three American and Canadian women of Ugandan origin who are members of Women in Film and Television International has been launched to help Ugandan filmmakers.
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