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New Pacific media network heads 'home' to Beijing.
Sunday 23 May 2010, Asia Media Summit, Beijing, CHINA -- 15 years after Pacific government and civil society leaders joined the global commitment to women and named it after the host city of Beijing, Pacific women in media are back to talk about how far we've come since then.
WAVE founding member and long-time media and gender activist Lisa Williams-Lahari is one of 20 participants attending a Gender Guidelines workshop leading into the 2010 Asia Media Summit. Beginning 24th May, the team will work with lead facilitator Kristina Tuura of Finland on strategies to mainstream gender in broadcast organisations. A draft Code of Ethics to help this happen forms the backbone to the workshop; one of 14 pre-summit events being organised by the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcast Development, AIBD. The Gender Guidelines workshop, supported by German non-profit Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), takes its cue from commitments to empowering women in and through the media. Women and the media are one of 13 critical areas of concern in the Beijing Platform for Action. The Platform for Action is a global commitment to women's equality which followed the UN 4th World Conference on Women in September 1995.
"This is my first visit to Beijing, and it's made even more special by the history that was created here 15 years ago. Just over 15 days ago Pacific women in media also built on that history, with our inaugural meeting for the WAVE regional network to help monitor and strengthen the actions to back up the promises," says Williams-Lahari.
"It's relatively easy to commit to making media workplaces better for women, saying we can do a better job as journalists on gender issues, and wanting to help more Pacific women understand and access media tools. But the next question from our Pacific media leaders is exactly how to make this happen. This workshop helps to answer that."
She says coming back to Beijing "is important. What happened here 15 years ago has definitely guided advocacy and gender work with Pacific journalists since the Beijing Platform for Action gave us that mandate."
"Moving from a global women's conference to a global media context is a real and effective step forward. There's much work to be done, and that's why WAVE is here."
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For more info on the Asia Media Summit and pre-Summit workshops visit www.aibd.org.my
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