Beijing + 10: Women´s Media Pool

A Women´s Media Pool towards and during Beijing + 10 will contribute to share and articulate some of the media initiatives of women communicators and their organizations.

It will promote information regarding  the assessment and appraisal of the full spectrum of the Platform for Action and the Declaration by way of producing press releases, features for electronic networks, newspapers, reports, TV, community and commercial radio and internet during the Beijing + 10 process.

The Women´s Media Pool is also open to the participation of women communicators and organizations that are not be present in New York, but can collaborate in distributing features and  news to their local media and in their own networks.

Such initiative has as background and reference the Women´s Media Center
organized by many of us during the IV World Conference on Women 1995 and the Women Action initiative during Beijing + 5 in New York in 2000.

Objectives of the Women´s Media for Pool Beijing + 10:

  • Give voice to all issues that are of significant importance to women’s lives in the present global context and local contexts, in community and commercial radio, internet radio, written press (women owned and mainstream media), electronic lists and  TV news.

 

  • Through interactive connectivity, bring in to the Beijing + 10 process the voices of women activists and media practitioners who will be following the process in their localities around the world.

  • Report on the CSW discussions regarding accountability for the Full Spectrum of the Platform for Action.

 

  • Celebrate by disseminating women’s achievements with regards to accountability to the implementation of the Platform for Action, and in the commemorations of the 8th of March globally within the Beijing + 10 process. (Campaigns and actions)

 

  • Lobby for accountability to Point “J” of the Platform for Action and accountability for the inclusion of funding for women´s media by agencies and governments.

·        Organize and showcase how women in media “pool” their activist, professional, technical and organizational resources to disseminate women´s voices, perspectives and issues, despite the trend to ignore the issue of women´s media and women in the media, and the diminishing of funding for such initiatives.

·        Support younger (or senior) media practitioners who will be in Beijing + 10 for the first time by providing a space where they can learn collectively from others and bring in their own experience. 


For more information or to join the creation of a Women´s Media Pool write to

 femmediapool@yahoo.com   or go to

 www.womensmediapool.org

  Contact person: María Suárez, acting coordinator