Women News Network Radio collection

This speech was delivered by Susan B. Anthony in 1873 before the US court in defense of women's sufferage, a women's right to vote in the US elections. A woman's right to vote was not finally pushed through until 1920 - thirty-three years later!

Narrator: Antonia Bath

Interview by Georgia Popplewell for Global Voices media.

Georgia describes the show:
During the closing session of the new media workshop I led recently in Alexandria, Egypt, practically everybody paid tribute to Shahinaz Abdelsalam, better known in the blogosphere as Wahda Masrya - an Egyptian Girl. The lone Alexandria native and one of the few experienced bloggers among the group, Shahinaz became for most of the participants a symbol of courage and deep commitment to the cause of human rights and of freedom expression.

As Delphine Nerbollier tells us in her interview (Fr) with Shahinaz on the NewsLab blog, Shahinaz broke with family tradition and left her native city in 2005, and now leads an independent life in Cairo. At 29 years old, she works as an telecommunications engineer with Orange, a job which, for her, raises a number of ethical questions. “Orange moved to this country to so they could pay engineers lower salaries, and I'm against that sort of thing,” she says. “But you still have to live, don't you?” Unlike the majority of Muslim women in Egypt, Shahinaz has never worn a headscarf or veil, and has no plans to do so in the future.

In this special edition of the Global Voices Show, Shahinaz talks about her own reasons for blogging; the risks faced by Egyptian bloggers who dare criticise the authorities; her friend, the imprisoned blogger Kareem Amer (whom she encouraged us all to write by giving us self-addressed stamped envelopes); and the activist blogging scene in Egypt.

Date: December 2007
Length: 7:04 min
Permissions: Creative commons / open source

In Nairobi, Kenya, two South African women are interviewed about their life as a lesbian couple. Today discrimination against LGBT women exists expansively. Hate crimes against lesbians includes many instances of "hate" speech, cultural intolerance and has included cases of "currative" rape -- rape intended to "cure" a woman of her lesbianism.

"Tradition and culture is one of the biggest challenges in the tolerance of homosexuality."

17:26 min show

For more women's radio Africa go to Pambazuka News / Fahamu: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/podcasts/
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March 3rd 2007, London – Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the USA. In this podcast hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city.
On the same day in Iran mixed news reports state that either 700 or 50 women activists were attacked by baton wielding cops in celebration of International Women’s Day on Thursday.
The Iranian government had pre-emptively arrested 30 major women’s activists a few days in advance to ensure that there would be no protests that day.
Click here [http://www.karzar-zanan.com] to learn more about the international campaign. Produced by Heidi Bachram.

11 December 2007 – Bernice Akuamoah, 21, from Accra, Ghana, was the first person to create a Digital Diary with UNICEF Radio and the Voices of Youth online community – using recording equipment supplied by UNICEF to tell her story of teenage life. In this show she has left Ghana and gone to London for the first time to intern for Al Jazeera network studios, London. "I feel more responsible than ever to be a better person and to work on the things that are important to me,” says Bernice on her journey in becoming an international radio producer.

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting or peace, justice, the environment and civil society.

In this program, National Radio Projects "Women Rising" producers visit with three eloquent members of the International Council of healers who represent more than 900 years of collective wisdom and traditions. The women come together to speak in one voice, with one very simple, yet urgent message: we must take care of our Mother, the Earth, for the next seven generations. . .

The Women's Desk program is a special collaboration with the Women Rising Radio Project, Lynn Feinerman and Crown Sephira Productions.

Senior Producer: Tena Rubio
Women Rising Producer: Lynn Feinerman
Women Rising Host: Sandina Robbins
Women Rising Engineer: Stephanie Welch

For more information:
The International Center of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers
The Center for Sacred Studies
PO Box 745 Sonora, CA 95370
info@grandmotherscouncil.com
www.grandmothercouncil.com

Thanks for this production goes to The National Radio Project and the "Women Rising" production team.

To reach their radio programming online link to:
http://www.radioproject.org/desks/women.html

It’s a well-worn path in human history. Non-traditional and marginalized communities attacked for their lifestyles and their individual choices… whether it’s based on sexual identity, gender equity or the quest for collective empowerment. So how do we challenge and overcome gender and sexual oppression?

Dr. Andrea Smith, of “INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence” co-founder, Loretta Ross, SisterSong founder, and Imani Henry, International Action Center staff organizer spoke at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, Georgia this summer. They have some answers.

Featuring:

Suzanne Pharr, Southerners on New Ground founding member; Dr. Andrea Smith, “INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence” co-founder; Loretta Ross, Sister Song founder and National coordinator; Imani Henry, International Action Center staff organizer.

Senior Producer/Host: Tena Rubio
Associate Producer: Puck Lo
Interns: Samson Reiny and Joaquin Palomino

For more information:

Southerners on New Ground
(S.O.N.G.)
PO Box 268
Durham, NC 27702
919-667-1362
www.southernersonnewground.org

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
incite_national@yahoo.com
www.incite-national.org

SisterSong
(Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective)
1237 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd., SW
Atlanta, GA 30310
404-756-2680
www.sistersong.net
info@SisterSong.net

International Action Center
5C - Solidarity Center
55 West 17th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-633-6646

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Women of Iran and Iraq talk of their own experience in their fight for equal rights in Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Aspects of women's lives are affected everyday by sharia laws. Listen to this interesting discussion on women living under these conditions today. Heidi Bachram producer. April 2007
9 min audio.

UNIFEM Chief Noeleen Heyzer Becomes Head of the UN Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific, ESCAP
Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week and the Situation of Women in Yemen

Afghanistan's most outspoken female lawmaker has been suspended for the rest of her term after she publicly criticized the Afghan parliament. In the process of this Malalai Joya's security is in grave danger. As she contines to expose corruptions inside the Afghan government she is force to change her location daily. For years Malalai Joya has been a leading critic of her government and the U.S. role in her country. She's faced constant harassment and attempts on her life for her views.

Section two of Amy Goodman's Democracy Now show - July24, 2007.
Show duration: 13:25 min

The children of Uganda have lived in terrible suffering and fear. Civil war has raged in their country for 17 years (as of 2004), and they are primary targets. Members of an armed rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army or LRA have been raiding villages at night--snatching children from their beds--then forcing them to serve as soldiers or sex slaves. Eric Beauchemin went to Uganda to talk with children who had escaped from the LRA and to learn what social workers and parents are doing to help them.

Show duration: 4:49 min
A World Vision Rdio Production
Release date: 2004

Interview with Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the group Afghan Women's Mission. Interview conducted by Melinda Tuhus.
Amid rising violence in his country, Afghan president Hamid Karzai visited Washington May 23rd and expressed his desire for more autonomy for his government, largely under U.S. control since the 2001 American invasion. Mr. Karzai also denounced the mistreatment of prisoners detained by the U.S. military and asked for the return of all Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay Naval base in Cuba back to Afghanistan. But he got little satisfaction from President George W. Bush who only addressed the issue vaguely. At least two Afghan men have died in U.S. custody at the American Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan.
Sonali Kolhatkar is co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission, based in Los Angeles, who last visited Afghanistan in February. Kolhatkar, a radio host at L.A.'s KPFK Radio, asserts that the majority of Afghans elected Hamid Karzai president last year based largely on his vow not to compromise with the warlords who opposed the Taliban but who have a history of violent and misogynist behavior.
Between The Lines' Melinda Tuhus spoke with Kolhatkar, who explains why many Afghans are upset with Karzai's recent actions that they believe betray his campaign promises. She also provides an update on the status of Afghanistan's women.
Contact the Afghan Women's Mission by calling (626) 676-7884 or visit their website at www.afghanwomensmission.org. Get more information on the status of Afghanistan's women by visiting the website of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan at www.rawa.org

Show duration: 30 min
Release date: May 26, 2005
A "Between the Lines" radio show WPKN 89.5 FM: http://www.btlonline.org

"Between the Lines," weekly radio news magazine

Trafficking in the Philippines is a growing global problem. In recent years there has been growing attention to the serious and critical problem of human trafficking. UNICEF estimates that there are at least one million people involved in human trafficking worldwide....most are women... many children and minors who are deceived and tricked into this kind of slavery... which causes endless suffering..
Duration: 29:6 min
Release date: November 2005
copyright Free Speech Radio News

Prossy’s story: 15 yr. old Teen Resumes Her Education After Two Years in Captivity in the LRA in Northern Uganda

The Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have resumed talks in Juba, Southern Sudan, to end the 20-year insurgency that has left over 1 million displaced. Here is the second report in a two-part series about the impact of the conflict on Ugandan girls’ right to education. GULU, Uganda, 2 January 2007 – At 15, Prossy Anena is a typical Ugandan girl. She has just finished primary school, she helps her mother pick sweet potatoes and she cooks for her six siblings.
But Prossy is also typical of many girls in northern Uganda in that she was abducted from her village by the LRA and spent two years in captivity.
Duration: 2:56 min
Release date: 2 Janurary, 2007
URL link to article: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uganda_37926.html
Text: David McKenzie for UNICEF

Land reform in Zimbabwe has hit the headlines recently years,
as white farmers are forced to hand their land over to the government to
redistribute. On top of the political turmoil, a food crisis in the
whole region is made worse by the collapse of food distribution systems.
Yet many women say that land reform not only needs to address race and
economic issues, it must also first tackle the basic inequality between
men and women. Emanuel Koro meets female farmers campaigning for change.
Date published: 11/09/2002 by InterWorld Radio show.
Duration: 00:05:30

This UN release talks about the dialogues between rural women globally to help women make valuble changes to help themselves and the world community of women. Great results from micro-loans to women in many countries has occured now from management programs set up by women for women in locations that circle the globe.
Show duration: 4:47 min
Release date: 2005 report

On this edition of Panoscope, we hear the testimonies of two Nepali women closely affected by the ten-year-old Maoist conflict. Kamala BK's husband disappeared five years ago. A political activist, Pampha Budhakothi and her family fled their village in the Nepali hinterland when she became the target of Maoist excesses. Panoscope is an independent production of Panos Radio South Asia. Language: English Lenghth:
15:00

BLACKFEET BANKER the suit over Indian Trusts
Elouise Cobell, Executive Director of the Native American Community Development Corporation, was a cofounder of the Blackfeet National Bank -- the first national bank on an Indian reservation in the US, and the first owned by an Indian tribe. For ten years, Cobell has been in and out of court against the US Department of Interior over their egregious mishandling and malfeasance around Individual Indian Trusts for more than a hundred years. She is consistently winning in court. Will the US cough up the estimated $27.5 billion dollars they owe these native people? Stay tuned! Cobell was recorded at the National Network of Grantmakers conference in Blaine, Washington, in October 2005, by Lisa Rudman of Making Contact. Editing for WINGS by Frieda Werden. Thanks also to Robin Carneen of NAMPAAH radio at KSVR-FM. Link for updates: www.indiantrust.com
28:37 min

How do women leaders around the globe feel about today’s United Nations?

How are women working with current U.N. policies and programs?

How do women feel about today’s U.N. outreach… about U.N. efficiency with gender rights, rights of the girl-child and women’s equality?

Are leadership positions at the U.N. open to women?

How is the U.N. dealing with women in war? Women and trafficking?

Are women leaders currently involved in the sweeping changes at the U.N. with United Nations reform?

Radio producer Lys Anzia tries to answer these and many other questions in an amazing five women interview with Mavic Cabrera Balleza of the International Women’s Tribune Center, Charlotte Bunch founder and executive director of The Center for Women’s Global Leadership at Rutgers University, Samantha Cook of Peacewomen Project - Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom at the U.N., Margaret Picher American biographer and historian and Denise Scotto Vice-Chair of the United Nations NGO Committee on the Status of Women.

This show has been distributed and co-produced internationally to member stations on three continents through Canadian radio syndicate WINGS - Women’s International News Gathering Service. Reproduction rights, on-air rights, podcast or webpage use with permissions only.

For use permits or for more information contact Lys Anzia via: womennews2000 at yahoo.com

To hear more great radio about women worldwide go to:

WINGS - Womens International News Gathering Service

To read international news features about current global women’s advocacy:

WNN - Women News Network

To see video/film covering all aspects of international women’s advocacy:

Women News Network Video collection

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Justice Talking radio show hosted by Margot Adler talks to the issues of equality for women in the US today. On the wave of a new bill for equal rights under the law this discussion brings important issues to light. As women are constantly making the hard choices between work, family and home this issue is hitting home for women. The issues of equality include equal pay for equal work, equal opportunity and equal treatment for women. This is a Justice Talking production - 28 May, 2007 release: http://www.justicetalking.org

For more on women's rights international go to:
WNN - Women News Network
http://womennewsnetwork.net

Indian attorney, Agnes Flavia, is one of the strongest leaders today in the women's rights movement in India. Problems of violence against women, forced marriage and unreported rape are still prevalent in India today. Listen to this 58 min. interview from India Together radio recorded at Stanford University May 2004. See India Together's news on women in India: http://indiatogether.org/women/

For more news on women international:
WNN - Women News Network
http://womennewsnetwork.net

Increasing danger for international women journalists is causing some journalists to place themselves in very dangerous environments. Recently in Iraq 4 women journalists were killed by unknown assassins.
This is a UN radio news release - Perspectives show May 2007.

To listen to more United Nations radio -
United Nations Radio News - Perspectives
http://radio.un.org/

For more international news on women -
WNN - Women News Network
http://womennewsnetwork.net