[APWW-Meet] Please defend UN Radio's "Women" coverage

[annewalker@iwtc.isiswomen.org]

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Dear Friends:

Anne Walker of IWTC has sent this message. This seems to be one more
indication that the UN is moving in a direction where we need to stay
vigilant. Women's grass-roots media are being denied press passes to
cover events at the UN and now the one radio program at the UN that
covered women's issues is under threat.=20


Word just arrived that UN Radio is wishing to pull the plug on the
program
"Women" from the English service.  There is no other program focused on
women that I know of coming out of UN media.  You can find it for
streaming
and downloading on the website http://radio.un.org

My letter said that the women's coverage of the UN for radio needed to
be
expanded.  "Women" has been going for decades, but the UN has starved it
back and back. It's been down to 14 minutes every 2 weeks, or even less,
for ages - that is not enough. If the program were longer and weekly, it
would be easy to schedule, and I'm sure many more stations would air it
regularly.

A tremendous amount is happening in the UN involving and affecting
women,
but nowadays campus media, community media, and women's media are denied
press passes to cover press conferences and events put on by the UN.

Who is going to cover the United Nations for us?  Please tell the UN
what
you want.

For all those not familiar with the UN Radio Programme "Women", here is
the
website where you can download and listen to any or all of the
broadcasts
for 2008.

<http://www.un.org/radio/features/4.html>

It is a landmark programme within UN Radio and has been broadcasting for
all
of it's 60 years. Throughout the world, women listen to these programmes
and
for most of them, this is the only information they get from the UN,
certainly the only information on what women are doing/experiencing
worldwide.


Contact for your letters of feedback or support:

Diane Bailey
Chief, English Language Unit
United Nations Radio
United Nations, Room S-850F
New York, NY 10017
http://www.un.org/radio
baileyd@un.org <mailto:baileyd%40un.org>


Thanks for any support you can give

Anne

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