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The World Association of Community Broadcasters – Women's International Network (AMARC-WIN) is set to organise an internet-based global broadcast campaign beginning 25 November to mark 16 days of activism against gender violence.

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[Editor’s Note: The monologues where presented by women in the wedding dresses during the media event, that culminated the forum, Happily Ever After?: Different Tales of Women Marriage Migrants on 24 October 2008 in Manila. These monologues were also presented during a media briefing on 21 October 2008 at the Bahay ni Isis (House of Isis)-International Women’s House.]

Chorus: We are women who are united, lending our faces and voices to the experiences and will of women marriage migrants.

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Anti-trafficking measures do not necessarily protect human rights. On several occasions, they have defeated their very purpose.

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Yellow satellite dishes have been protruding from the windows and roofs of homes and establishments in Bangkok these past few months. Through these, Thais are able to witness political events as they unfold, in a way that is unprecedented in Thai media.

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by Manuel Quintero, Cuba

[Editor's Note: The World Association for Christian Communications (WACC) held its 8th Congress from 6 to 10 October 2008 at Capetown, South Africa. Ruth Ojiambo Ochieng, who is a special member of Isis International Board of Trustees was a key note speaker at the Congress. Isis' research, People's Communications for Development (PC4D) was also presented during the event by Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, a member of Isis' Board and coordinator of femLINKPACIFIC. The full text of the article may be found on the WACC website, http://www.wacc.org.uk/regions/africa/ african_news/feminine_power_restores_hope]

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In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the Asia-Pacific community of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is set to hold a series of workshops from 17 to 20 October 2008 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in making community radios responsive to poverty and situations of disaster.