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Isis International and community radio training on the island of Boholwmap_jagna

The great thing about radio is that people at the grassroots and in marginalised communities can produce and broadcast their own programmes. In rural areas and small towns, most people have radios rather than computers and other high tech devices. Radio programmes produced in their own communities provide them with information that is geared to their needs.

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RWStudiesThe University of the Philippines Center for Women’s Studies and the UP College of Mass Communication (CMC) launched on 22 September 2011 a special issue of the academic journal Review of Women’s Studies (Vol. XX, Nos. 1-2), focusing on the intersections between media, gender and sexuality. Guest edited by Professor Elizabeth L. Enriquez, the special issue includes a collection of selected papers written by her students enrolled in a Master of Arts in Media Studies course titled Media, Gender and Sexuality, offered by the CMC.

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Isis International

A groundbreaking “Global Report on the Status Women in the News Media” examining more than 500 companies in nearly 60 countries shows that men occupy the vast majority of the management jobs and news-gathering positions in most nations included in this study.

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The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC expresses deep shock and anger at the murder of Devi Prasad Dhital (Hemraj)Chairman of Community Radio Tulsipur on 22^nd July 2010. According to initial reports, Dhital was shot at Urahari, about 12 kilometers from Tulsipur in western Nepal on Thursday around 8:45 p.m.

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by Sandhya Narayan

I soaked in the warm fresh air around me as I watched others trying to settle down for the evening. The moon overhead looked on patiently over the Natrani Amphitheatre in Ahmedabad, India. The evening was being hosted by a group of young people of Ahmedabad City who have been organising a number of unique and exciting annual film festivals each year with themes focusing on Peace, Children and Women.

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by Sheryl Ho

Twenty-five young women from seven countries in the Asia-Pacific region, gathered in Bangalore, India for the 2nd Assembly of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) Asia-Pacific in Feburary; following the week-long Women Making Airwaves for Peace (WMAP) workshop organised by Isis International in Mysore, India. With friendships and networks formed, the young women not only brought gender balance to what would have been a male-dominated conference but also participated in this all important conference of community radio practitioners.