March 5, 2010 Montreal – This March 8th, the Women’s International
Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC-WIN) will celebrate Women’s International Day with a Webcast
starting on March 8th to March 31st, dedicated to women and gender
issues. The Webcast will begin at 1:00 am GMT on Monday March 8.
Community radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa,
Europe, North America and Latin America and the Caribbean will
participate at this broadcast campaign. To listen the multilingual
programs visit our website: http://march8.amarc.org
The theme of this year is “Empowering and celebrating women as agents of
recovery”. This and many other subjects about women will be addressed in
documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry and music produced by
community radio broadcasters from all continents.
The Sixth Annual Women’s International Day campaign broadcast will
feature programming in English, French, Spanish, Nepali, Italian and
many other languages. Individual files are available for download. We
invite all radio stations to re-broadcast the programs by downloading
them from: http://march8.amarc.org.
AMARC-WIN highlights this March 8 the role of women in leading their
countries and communities towards recovery and long-term development
after a natural disaster. The AMARC- WIN also want to mark the
International Women Day by honoring Myriam Merlet, Magali Marcelin and
Anne Marie Coriolan, founders of three of Haiti’s most important
advocacy organizations working on behalf of women and girls who perished
during the Haiti earthquake on January 12th, 2010.
For more information, please contact the AMARC International
Secretariat: secretariat@si.amarc.org
The AMARC Women’s International Network is a large assembly of women
communicators working to ensure women’s right to communicate through and
within the community radio movement. AMARC is an international
non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, and
linking more than 4,000 community radios in over 110 countries. AMARC
aims to support, defend and promote the interests of community
broadcasters through solidarity and international cooperation. For
further info http://www.amarc.org
