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.

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 8^{th 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.

The “pool” is a joint endeavor of DigitallFuture, FEMNET, AMARC Women´s Network (WIN AMARC), ISIS International in Chile, International Women´s Tribune Center (IWTC), the Association for Progressive Comunications (APC WNSP), Women´s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO), MADRE Women´s Human Rights Organization, Les Penelopes, Femlinks, Feminist International Radio Endeavour (FIRE), the International Information Center and Archives for the Women's Movement (IIAV), African Gender and Media Initiative (GEM), Asia Pacific Women´s Watch (APWW), International Women´s Health Coalition (IWHC), One World Radio, Catholics for Free Choice (Bolivia), Latin American and Caribbean Women´s Health Network, Foundation Women, Arta and Life (MAVI) Colombia, the Gender Network of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), Women´s Human Rights Net, Revista Mujeres Cuba, CIMAC México, Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Reproductive and Sexual Rights, Group for Reproductive Choice (GIRE) and CIMAC in México, Isisi Manila, Women´s Feature Service (WFS Phillipines), Voices Rising, “VOICES RISING”, International Council for Education of Elder People, Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust (WLSA), Mozambique, Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan, NetFemmes in Québec, Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra Sao Paulo, WiLDAF/FeDDAF-West Africa, Women Farmers' Advancement Network -Kano-Nigeria, Programa de radio “Nunca en Domingo” de Cotidiano Mujer, Uruguay, The International Women´s Media Consortium and PlaNetWire, USA, Modemmujer, México, RIMA de Argentina, La Red Va REPEM en Uruguay, Women´s E-news n USA, The European Women Journalist Newwork, Rural Development Leadrship Network, and the Indigenous Women`s Forum Communications Commission, WIDE - Women in Development Europe, Colectivo Feminista Mujeres Universitarias Honduras, C.A., and others.

The Women´s Media Pool is also be open to the participation of women communicators and organizations that will 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.

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