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Is Access Enough?
Despite increasing access to media, women's position in this social institution remains marginal
In different parts of the world, community broadcasting is known by different names. These include: free radio, popular radio, alternative radio, co-operative radio, educational radio and rural radio. In New Zealand it is known as "access" radio, which is the guiding principle of community broadcasting in that country.
Fighting for SpaceTwo alternative news services lament on the competition for space in the mainstream media
For 20 years, operating in various parts of the world, they have been producing and selling stories with a women's perspective to major dailies, or radio and TV programs. Giving the voices and views of women greater access to the world's media is the goal of the Women's Feature Service (WFS) which counts on a network of 120 women journalists from 60 countries. The aim is to inform the public and influence policy-makers on various issues that shape women's lives.
Education through Radio Women's Aid Organization in Malaysia use radio to fight domestic violence
Women's Aid Organisation (WAO) in Malaysia opened the first refuge in the country in 1982 for battered women and their children. Besides providing shelter, telephone counselling and face-to-face counselling, WAO plays a lead role in advocacy work, public education and law reform on domestic violence and continues to play an important role in the women's movement in Malaysia.
Lend Us Your Ears Radio is a potent vehicle for ventilating women's issues and concerns. It is a means of mobilising action towards social transformation.
Manivanh works her rice paddies solitarily. But she doesn't seem to mind. Her transistor radio keeps her company. Occasionally, Manivanh nods her head and utters a few words, as if intently talking to someone. After weeding, she goes to check her water buffalo, which she left grazing on the hilly part of her farm. Holding the radio in one hand, she loosely ties the beast to a mango tree under which she also slumps, presumably to take a short rest and have her breakfast. But eat, she does not. She brings out instead a stub of a pencil and a nearly tattered notebook. She writes as she listens intently to her radio. We later learn that Manivanh is "attending" the school on the air over Lao National Radio.
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