Welcome

The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), founded in 1951, is a forum for personal contact and professional development among women broadcasters worldwide. We are a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Comprising women of many nationalities across the broadcast spectrum, we arrange international conferences with workshops, screenings, lectures, training and professional networking.

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6th Asian Women's Film Festival Celebrates International Women's Day -March 7-8, 2010, New Delhi - SCHEDULE ATTACHED

The IAWRT-India, in partnership with the IIC, is organizing the 6th Asian Women’s Film Festival in New Delhi on March 6- 7-8, 2010.

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Funding Opportunities

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Keynote Address by Elizabeth Kirkby to the IAWRT Biennial Conference, Cambodia, 17-21 November 2009

Bodies such as IAWRT should promote the best of film, radio and television, one of the Association's longest serving members told the Biennial Conference.

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Women's Media Organizations Celebrate Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action

The UN Commission on the Status of Women will be meeting in New York in March, on the theme of the 15th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, passed at the fourth UN World Co

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IAWRT Book is launched at 2009 IAWRT Conference

The history of IAWRT is brought together in this land mark book project. We will soon make the book available on this web site to share with members, educators, and journalists around the world.

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Awards are Announced at IAWRT 09 Conference

Press Release: International Documentary Awards Announced

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Media women to study women in the media

IAWRT broadcasters and documentary makers will gather in Cambodia next week to examine the portrayal of women and their practical involvement in media.

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2009 IAWRT awards for Excellence in Documentary Making Announced!

Invitations are now open for the 2009 IAWRT International Awards for Excellence. Program makers have until Friday 16 October 2009 to submit an entry.

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New book celebrates 50 years of IAWRT

IAWRT will officially launch a new book on the history of the radio and TV association at its Biennial Conference in Cambodia in November.

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Four IAWRT members gain scholarships

Scholarships totalling US$12,000 have been awarded to four members of IAWRT to help pay for attendance at courses or part-finance continuing studies.

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Radio and TV documentaries get the go-ahead

The IAWRT Board is recommending the funding of 13 short radio and television documentaries by women about women.

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Great start to 2009 for IAWRT

IAWRT has had a very active and productive first six months of the 2009 financial year, with solid achievements against goals.

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Media women vital in global financial crisis

Women in the media have a vital role to play during the current global financial crisis, according to Olya Booyar, the President of IAWRT.

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Cyclone devastation in Bangladesh

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

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Call for honesty with compassion on World Press Freedom Day

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.

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New free online resource for journalists and journalism students.

The News Manual by Peter Henshall and David Ingram published

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The Communication Initiative Network

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

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Women Make the News - UNESCO launches campaign 2009

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

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IAWRT Cameroon holds a workshop on the role and status of media women during armed conflicts

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.

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IWMF Launches Step-by-Step Guide to Train Journalists

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

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Call for Entries : Film South Asia '09

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.

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The flying peace in the Middle East

Benaz Batrawi, IAWRT member, writing from Ramallah in the Palestinian Authority Areas, offers a personal view from a Palestinian perspective of the recent fighting in Gaza. 

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Letter to the Prime Minister of Nepal, Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal

IAWRT sent the Prime Minister of Nepal condolences on the death of journalist Uma Singh and called for justice for her killers. Read the full text.

23 January 2009

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Women broadcasters condemn brutal murder of young radio journalist in Nepal

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

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

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

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IAWRT Board Members Meet Norway Chapter

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.

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Women in the Land of Conflict

FOKUS - Forum for Women and Development, Networkers SouthNorth and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly hosted the Women in the Land of Conflict intern

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Media professionals call for end to killings in Gaza conflict

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

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2008 end of the year message from the President

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

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INAUGURAL GLOBAL GREEN INDIGENOUS FESTIVAL SOON!

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

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FEMINA FILM FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES

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

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Empower women

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

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Ecocinema calls for entries

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

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HIV/AIDS Media Guide in five language

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.

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Canadian Voices Podcast: Listen to IAWRT's Shari Graydon

The UN cites that children have the right to be protected from information that compromises their well-being.

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Human Rights Funders' Directory

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.

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All women team at UKs blazes new trail for Pakistan

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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IAWRT member honoured by Stanford University

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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Real TV channel launches to break news monopolies

REAL NEWS is independent, with no funding from any government. It covers issues of our time: global warming, media monopolies, politics, faith, justice, human rights, corruption, satire and enourages fair debate.
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Women's News Network

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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International Human Rights Film Festival coming up soon

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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WORLD FREEDOM PRIZE

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."

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WIFTI TO HELP UGANDAN FILMMAKERS

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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