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Landmark and Pitfalls by Bianca Miglioretto
Women In Action
Into the Light
Time for Sexual Parity by Mavic Cabrera-Balleza |
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From Battlefields to Homes We are not Afraid of Success by Celia Eccher With Luz Maria Martinez |
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Landmarks and Pitfalls
It is not the discourse on human rights per se that is the problem but the narrow universe of international legal order that does not acknowledge gender disparities of power.
At 3 a.m. on 10 December 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which stands to this day as the most widely recognised statement of the rights to which every human being is entitled. The person credited for having the biggest role in shaping the Declaration and unrelentlessly pressing the UN to pass it was Eleanor Roosevelt, then chair of the Commission on Human Rights and a woman.
Women Grab the Microphone!
Women put more dynamism in radio and the Women's International Network in Community Radio shows how
Women come from everywhere, go everywhere and talk about everything. So let's grab the microphones and occupy the airwaves. Because if we look at mass media and at radio in particular, the presence of women in every sphere of society and life is just not reflected. There are fewer women than men heard over the radio and if women are projected on radio it is often in a very voyeuristic and sensational or traditional way, full of stereotypes that are far from our realities.
Woman In Action
Vanessa Griffin shares her views about the place she calls home.
Vanessa Griffin, co-ordinator of the Gender and Development programme of the Asia Pacific Development Centre (APDC), was born and grew up in Fiji. Before coming to APDC, Vanessa helped organise the first Pacific Regional Meeting in 1975. In this interview with Isis' Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Vanessa shares her views about the place she calls home.
Into the Light
The Thai Lesbian Movement Takes a Step Forward
Anjaree, Thailand's only lesbian organization, has a thick newsletter which comes out every two months. In order to receive it, one writes to Bangkok with remittance and an address to which the newsletter is then forwarded. Approximately five hundred members of Anjaree, plus a number of NGOs, receive the newsletter, called Anjareesan, in this manner.
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