Resources

FOKUS – Forum for Women and Development – is a knowledge and resource center for international women’s issues with an emphasis on the spreading of information and women-centered development cooperation. FOKUS’ primary goal is to contribute to the improvement of women’s social, economic, and political situation internationally. As of February 2010, the organization consists of 71 women's organizations and women's committees in political parties, trade unions, and solidarity and aid organizations. FOKUS receives financial support from the Norwegian Agency for Development (NORAD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UD) through framework agreements on development and information activities.

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WITNESS is an international human rights organization that provides training and support to local groups to use video in their human rights advocacy campaigns. Beyond providing video cameras and editing equipment, WITNESS is committed to facilitating exposure for our partners' issues on a global scale. It helps broker relationships with international media outlets, government officials, policymakers, activists, and the general public so that once a video is made, it can be used as a tool to advocate for change.

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ABU or the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union is a non-profit, non-government, professional association of broadcasting organizations, formed in 1964 to facilitate the development of broadcasting in the Asia-Pacific region and to organize co-operative activities amongst its members. It currently has over 200 members in 58 countries, including IAWRT, reaching a potential audience of about 3 billion people.

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The Tun Abdul Razak Institute of Broadcasting and Information (IPPTAR) evolved as a training institute under the Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture and aptly renamed the Tun Abdul Razak Institute for Broadcasting and Information or IPPTAR in August 2008. IPPTAR is the only national institute conducting professional courses in the field of Broadcasting, particularly in program production and radio and television engineering.

Having the technical expertise and facilities that complement with the goals of IAWRT, IPPTAR agreed to serve as the local host of IAWRT in Malaysia particularly for the conduct of its 34th Biennial Conference.

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·    IAWRT has ongoing and active relations with international organizations such as: ECOSOC, the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), the UN DPI-NGO partnership, the Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID).

·    IAWRT networks with international media organizations including:  the Commonwealth Broadcasters’ Association (CBA), the Asia Institute of Broadcast Development (AIBD) and the European Broadcasters’ Union (EBU).

·      IAWRT has active relationships with media and related organizations including: ISIS international, ISIS/WCCE, GenderLinks, Saathi in Nepal, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Gender Institute in India, NRK Norway, Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), Swedish Radio and ABC Australia. Some of these provide funding or in-kind support.

ABU NewsLatest news and updates from the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union.
AIBD Broadcaster A quarterly publication of the the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development.   C21 Media

International publishing company specialising in worldwide television, media, and associated business information.

Operation Black Vote media page
NGO that focuses on the Black democratic deficit in the UK. Pushes for a strong political voice for African, Asian, Caribbean and other ethnic minorities. Site is portal to variety of excellent resources. This page contains a list of newspapers, media entities, radio channels, TV channels and ethnic minority sites.

NewsIndex
News Index provides a practical and useful search engine dedicated to timely News and Information

NewsLink
NewsLink Associates is an academic and professional research and consulting firm studying electronic publishing and visual journalism.

Moreover Technologies
Provider of real-time information management solutions, delivering essential online information in time to impact business decisions.

Newspaperlinks.com
Links to US daily and weekly newspaper home pages and sections, Canadian and international daily newspapers, newspaper groups, associations and other media organizations. Links to other sites with
college newspaper and newspaper archives.

Headlinespot
A guide to thousands of the best US and international news resources on the Web. A daily source of breaking news, analysis and perspective.

1stHeadlines
A one-stop location where readers can view the latest "Breaking News" headlines from top online news sources around the world in a fast, easy-to-read format.

Online Newspapers
Indexes 10,000 online newspapers around the world offered by country and state or province in handy pull-down menus.

Yahoo! headline news
Enough said.

BBC News
Needs no introduction.

AllAfrica.com
The largest electronic distributor of African news and information. Registered in Mauritius, with offices in Johannesburg, Dakar, Lagos and Washington, DC, AllAfrica is among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over 800 stories daily in English and French. Articles searchable by region, country and keyword.

Africa Confidential
Trusted news and analysis site focusing on Africa, interpreting current affairs and developments in the region.

Africa Online
Africa Online is part of the African Lakes Corporation group

African Perspective
Online All Africa newsweekly that brings news and analysis on political, economic, historic and cultural events in Africa and elsewhere in the world.

BBC News for Africa
The African section of the famous BBC News Service.

Panafrican News Agency
PANAPRESS is an international news and information service, providing high-quality, up-to-the-minute news coverage of the African continent.

Nigerian Newspapers
Links to Nigerian newspapers

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IMOW
The International Museum of Women amplifies the voices of women globally through history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue, build community, and inspire action.

MS Foundation for Women
As the country’s first national, multi-issue women’s fund, the Ms. Foundation directs resources of all kinds to cutting-edge projects that nurture girls’ leadership skills, protect the health and safety of women, and provide low-income women with the tools to lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

The African Women's Media Centre
The African Women's Media Center, a project of the International Women's Media Foundation, was founded in 1997. Located in Dakar, Senegal, and directed by an advisory committee of African women in the media, the center is the only continent-wide organization working with and on behalf of African women in the media. Since the center's founding, more than 900 women journalists have taken part in 21 programs and workshops conducted by the AWMC

Communications Consortium Media Center
The CCMC "seeks to influence public policy in ways that respect and support individual rights, healthy families, cultural diversity and a sustainable environment. Each of our public education campaigns focuses on the issue or policy change, not on promoting individuals or organizations."

WomenWatch
A central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system, including the United Nations Secretariat, regional commissions, funds, programmes, specialized agencies and academic and research institutions. It is a joint United Nations project created in March 1997 to provide Internet space for global gender equality issues

RAINBO
International non-profit group working on issues at the intersection between women's health and human rights. Starting with Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation (FC/FGM), we explore ways of preventing this and other forms of gender-based violence.

WIFP Violence against Women
A list of links working to promote and protect African women’s and girl’s full sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
The purpose of the Project is the dissemination online and offline of material related to female genital mutilation, otherwise known as female circumcision. The Project seeks to form an online clearinghouse and a community for researchers, activists, attorneys, and health care practitioners to obtain information and network with others involved in similar projects.

International Women's Tribune Centre
IWTC is a global NGO formed in l976 after the UN International Women's Year World Conference in Mexico City. IWTC is committed to empowering people and building communities by providing communication, information, education, and organising support services to women's groups, particularly in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Western Asia.

IMOW
The International Museum of Women amplifies the voices of women globally through history, the arts and cultural programs that educate, create dialogue, build community, and inspire action.

Movies Directed by Women
This site includes information on historical women directors, statistics on women directors, and also includes director interviews.

Studies in Women and Gender
SWAG, a concentration or major open to all undergraduates at the University of Virginia, is an interdisciplinary program that seeks to study history and culture from women's perspectives and to deepen methods of academic pursuit by acknowledging the critical places of gender.

The News Manual
A free online resource for journalists, would-be journalists, educators and people interested in the media.

Women in Cinema
A reference guide.