WIN: The Women´s International Network
of AMARC - The World Association of Community Radios

AMARC´s Women´s Network in Europe

The programs fetured here were produced by the Women´s Network of AMARC in Europe.

"Women Working in Community Radios" Radio Orakel. (English)

"Femmes Migrantes en France" Radio Pluriel. (French)

"Dien Name Bitte" Radio Lora (German)


AMARC-Europe is the European regional section of AMARC grouping together radios and their national federations from 40 European countries, a network of 1500 community broadcasting services. The headquarters of AMARC-Europe were established in Sheffield, UK following the first AMARC Pan-European Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1994, which also adopted the Community Radio Charter for Europe. 

 
What is AMARC-WIN?

The Women's International Network of AMARC (AMARC-WIN) is a large assembly of women communicators working to ensure women's Right to communicate through and within the community radio movement. 
What are WIN's main principles?

* WIN works for women's Right to communicate as a basic human right expressed through community radio. 
* WIN supports women's empowerment, gender equity, and a general improvement in the condition and position of women worldwide. 
* WIN promotes women's access to all levels of community radio, including decision-making. 
* WIN supports women's efforts to express themselves within and beyond their communities, by providing training programs and production exchanges at the international and local level. 
* WIN aims to change negative images of both women and men in the media and to challenge stereotypes being reproduced by media all around the world. 
* WIN subscribes to the principles of the Beijing Platform for Action. 
 
   Women´s International Network

 
What is AMARC?
AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, with almost 
3000 members and associates in 106 countries.
Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of   community and participatory radio along the principals of  solidarity and international cooperation.

Memebers of AMARC´s Women´s Network speak on FIRE-PLACE broadcasts during Beijing + 5 at the United Nations abour the issue of media in the Platfrom for Action of the IV UN World Conference on Women in 1995.
(The program was moderated by Mavic Cabrera of ISIS in Phillipines. Other participants are from Australia, Africa, Canada and the United States)

    Introduction to the program.

   How women organized a Media Caucus to       influence  the General Assembly of the United Nations.

  The issue of access women´s to media and training

  Counteracting stereotyping of women in media.

  Final statement: taking the experience back home.
 
 

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