Subject: [fem-women2000 606] Women's Globalnet #167: Women Make the News 2001
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IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET #167
Initiatives and Activities of Women Worldwide
by Anne S. Walker

March 5, 2001

WOMEN MAKE THE NEWS 2001:

UNESCO and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have 
launched  the operation "Women Make the News 2001" to call on print, 
broadcast and electronic media world-wide to place news under the 
editorial responsibility of women journalists for a full week (March 5 
to 11) to mark International Women's Day, March 8.

The Web-based operation is designed to draw attention to the fact that, 
although the number of women in the media is increasing, they are all 
too few to rise to top positions. By stressing this point, UNESCO is 
reaffirming the commitment made at the Fourth World Conference on Women 
in Beijing (China) in 1995 to promote equal professional opportunity for 
women.

Women Make the News was first launched on International Women's Day last 
year when UNESCO Director-General, Ko$B}D(Bhiro Matsuura, made an appeal to 
the world's media to have women take editorial responsibility for the 
day. Many international organizations supported the initiative and 
issued messages backing the operation. Massive support was registered by 
media organizations. More than 1,000 media from 56 countries took part 
in the operation and many asked for a similar, but longer, initiative in 
2001.

This year, UNESCO invited the International Federation of Journalists to 
become a partner in the week-long operation. The IFJ is the world's 
largest organization of journalists with some 450,000 members in more 
than 100 countries. It promotes international action to defend press 
freedom and issues such as equal opportunities for men and women.

In June 2001, the IFJ will organize a global conference for women 
journalists, Equality and Quality: Women in the Media, as part of the 
IFJ World Congress in Seoul (Korea). On this occasion, the results of a 
joint IFJ/UNESCO survey on the status of women journalists will be 
released.

UNESCO and the IFJ believe that it is up to each media organization to 
determine how it carries out the one-week Women Make the News operation. 
Last year, for example, some media, for March 8, appointed women 
editors-in-chief or named them head of newspaper sections, while others 
chose to publish special features on issues related to women and the 
media.

Media organizations are invited to register their participation in the 
initiative through the UNESCO website at: http://www.unesco.org/march8 . 

The site contains the IFJ/UNESCO questionnaire on the status of women. 
Reactions and proposals are also welcome on the website.

INDICATE YOUR PARTICIPATION BY FILLING IN THE FORM AT:
http://www.unesco.org/march8 
or by e-mail  at: march8@unesco.org 

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