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Radio Rights and Recognition – Community Radio for People's Empowerment

AMARC Asia Pacific introduces affirmative action for women

The strong presence of women in the community radio movement in Asia Pacific was felt at the 3rd Regional Conference, from December 2 to 6 in Seoul, South Korea.

Among the close to 170 participants from 23 countries in the Asia Pacific region less than 40% were women. But the women present were very active and saw to it that in almost every panel or workshop the women's perspective was presented.

Women still underrepresented in community radio stations in the Asia Pacific
During a panel on the status of women in community radios in the Asia Pacific, a survey by AMARC1-WIN2 was presented which on one hand showed that many women in community radio are marginalised and often deprived of access to decision making and technical tasks. On the other hand, the percentage of women in leadership positions has increased by 7% from 28% in 2006 to 35% in 2013. The reasons for the inequality between men and women given by majority of the respondents were cultural barriers and threats to the safety of women broadcasters. The most important changes respondents desired are more women's participation in content production and generally more women who work in the community radio as staff and volunteers.

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For 10 years, Tactical Technology Collective and partner organisations such as Front Line Defenders have worked with human rights defenders, in order to help them better to protect their sensitive data, their communications, themselves and their communities when carrying out their work, through developing online resources, books, and carrying out regular trainings around the world. As part of this process, we have developed the "Security in a Box" book and toolkit (https://securityinabox.org) which now receives around 200,000 visits a month.

However, in order to continue improving our materials and make digital security easier to understand and contextualise for specific communities of human rights defenders, we have begun a process of creating "context guides" which make the guide more accessible for certain communities at risk. The idea of this survey is to help create and improve such a guide, for LGBTI activists from Africa, which would help the community understand the need for healthy digital security practices by demonstrating the risks they face and providing stories of best practices from others in the community.

If you'd like a better idea of what it may look like, the first such guide, which was created for LGBTI human rights defenders from the Arabic-speaking world, can be seen in English here: https://securityinabox.org/en/context/01

You can find the survey at https://tacticaltech.org/africa-survey

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Community Radio Network of AMARC Salutes the First World Radio Day

Montreal, February 7, 2012. Community radio members of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) network salute the World Radio Day to be celebrated for the first this February 13th 2012. Community radios are an ever increasing worldwide tier of    broadcast and an essential part of radio spectrum. They contribute from the communities to pluralistic media landscapes and to the exercise of communication rights by citizens. For further information on community radio activities for the World Radio Day, please go to AMARC Website.

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First AMARC Asia Pacific Community Radio Training Forum

By Bianca Miglioretto, Isis International

"Many women are not aware that they can learn a lot from other women. This forum is an excellent opportunity to learn from women in similar situations, to improve their own working and living conditions, some of them even living close to our own country."
Yam Kumari. K.C. Radio Myadi, Nepal

Yam Kumari was one of the participants of the workshop on Empowering Women through the Gender Policy for Community Radio at the 1st AMARC Asia Pacific Community Radio Training Forum from December 11 – 13, 2011 held in Bangkok, Thailand: A Biennial Event Enhancing Capacities of Community Broadcasters for Tackling Climate Change, Fighting Poverty, Promoting Human Rights, and Supporting Sustainable Development, organised by AMARC Asia Pacific with local partners.

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http://lang.zanantv.org/home/

ZanaaZanan TV was launched on 25 November 2011, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

We chose this day because Zanan TV is an alternative space for marginalized women who are violated by the state and silenced by mainstream media in Iran. It is a space for building the women’s movement and the democracy movement in Iran.

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Cultural presentation at Sagada.Radyo Launch.

Photo by Isis International.

In our last issue of We!, Isis International presented out recent community radio training workshop on the Island of Bohol. We also listed a number of other community radio training programmes that we have organised and/or for which we provided trainers. Isis International would like to acknowledge that the radio training for the SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) was organised by the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Asia Pacific (AMARC AP) and funded by the Swiss Development Cooperation. Isis International has also cooperated and continues to cooperate with AMARC on other radio trainings.