Subject: [fem-women2000 689] Women's GlobalNet #176: Update on Gender at WCAR
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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:54:02 +0000
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IWTC WOMEN'S GLOBALNET #176 Initiatives and Activities of Women Worldwide By Anne S. Walker and Vicki J. Semler August 30, 2001 UPDATE ON GENDER AT THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM UN World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (WCAR), Durban, South Africa, 28 August-7 September, 2001. Following up on Women's Globalnet #175, (see IWTC website at www.iwtc.org) which gave background, plans and preparations for WCAR, this issue has been prepared with those of us who are unable to be in Durban in mind, and includes many avenues whereby women worldwide can keep in touch. It is a compilation of information that has come to us from various women's groups and from WomenAction participants who are in Durban posting news and bulletins to both the WomenAction website (http://www.womenaction.org> and to their own websites. A. KEEPING ABREAST OF WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES AT WCAR: 1.Daily Live Webcasts by FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour): FIRE invites you to participate in the "FIRE-PLACE" August 28-Sept. 7, 2001 through its webpage at: <http://www.fire.or.cr>. Featuring women from around the world talking about racism, FIRE will broadcast daily programmes from the WomensNet CyberCafe in Spanish, English and Portuguese under the title "Voices Without Brackets." Listeners may also participate in a "chat room" during the broadcasts. Programmes will focus on a variety of topics, including: Women's access to media and new communication technologies; gender and sexual identity; media and racism; intersections of globalization with gender, race and class; Filipina migrant women's issues; Caribbean women and 500 years of racism; young ethnic Australian women on using art to explore racism and xenophobia. For more information, write to FIRE at e-mail: femintra@hotmail.com or check their webpage at: <http://www.fire.or.cr>. 2. WomensNet Cybercafe: FIRE journalists report that "the large room on the third floor of Cricket Stadium is packed with more than 60 computers, all occupied by activists, journalists and other communicators writing news articles to send back home to their countries about the first day of the NGO Forum at WCAR now underway in Durban, South Africa." The article goes on to say that Womensnet CyberCafe is the first Internet caftotally organized and run by women at a UN World Conference and that the host (WomensNet), is an African women's organization focused on training women in the use of new information technologies for social change. 3. Intersections: Covering Gender at the WCAR NGO Forum, Durban 2001. This bulletin will be produced every two days by WomenAction participants at the NGO Forum, led by WomensNet and APC-Africa Women. It will be printed and available online at: <http://www.apc.org/intersections/> B. SITES FOR REVIEWING BACKGROUND PAPERS AND DEBATES: 1. Isis International/Manila WCAR Activities: A special section of the Isis website (http://www.isiswomen.org) compiles information and documents arising from NGO and official meetings leading up to WCAR. In addition to this, the Isis bulletin entitled We!, which is issued in both electronic (weekly) and printed (monthly) versions, has a special section called "WCAR Watch." It features important articles, debates and other initiatives of governments and NGOs around WCAR issues. To subscribe to We!, send an e-mail to: <communications@isiswomen.org>. Isis is also facilitaing a special gender and racism listserve called the Asia-Pacific Gender and Racism list (APGR). To subscribe to the list, e-mail the List Administrator, Kathy Clarin at: <kathy@isiswomen.org>. 2. UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) has a special website for the WCAR which can be found at: <http://www.undp.org/unifem/racism/wcar.html>. 3. DAWN INFORMS: The August 2001 issue of DAWN's (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) newsletter features plans for Durban and commentaries on some of the preparatory work done in different parts of the world by DAWN members. "Dawn Informs" can be downloaded in PDF format from their website at: <http://www.dawn.org.fj>. C. NEW ADVOCACY TOOL DEVELOPED FOR WCAR: 1. Declaration by Women for Lives Free of Racism and Discrimination: This declaration was prepared by women participating in the World Assembly of the International Council of Adult Education (ICAE), held in Jamaica, August 9-12, 2001. It makes clear the vital role played by educators in fighting discrimination at all levels. For copies of the declaration, contact: REPEM, Colonia 2069, 11200 Montevideo, Uruguay. E-mail: <repem@repem.org.uy>. 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