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Harvest Reaped but Hard to Reach: The Food Crisis and Women in the Global South

WIA-20091 icon In 2008, the world was alarmed by the shortage of food especially staples such as wheat, rice and corn. This crunch was further aggravated by the soaring prices of fuel and now, by the gripping economic and climate crises.

But the food crisis is not the result of the unavailability of food sources. Instead it exposes the flaws of the neoliberal model that has created various forms of scarcity amid abundance in the name of profit — resulting in captive politics, massive poverty, environmental degradation and even cultural homogenisation.

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Media as a Magnifying Glass on Iran
Thursday, 02 July 2009
By Nina Somera, Isis International

Twenty years since the Tiananmen Square massacre, the image of the young man who was bravely confronting the tanks continues a collective memory especially outside China. While Tiananmen may have slipped through the media's attention this year, a similar event was unfolding in Iran.

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Chinese Women’s NGOs Conference Heralds Beijing+15 Campaign
Thursday, 02 July 2009
by the Chinese Women’s Research Society and Cai Yiping, Isis International

The All-China Women's Federation International Liaison Department and the Chinese Women’s Research Society held a non-governmental organisation conference on the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. on 15 June 2009 in Beijing, China

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We are all Honduras, We resist!
Thursday, 02 July 2009
by World March of Women and the Red Latinoamericana Mujeres
Transformando la Economía
[This statement was issued on 30 June 2009]

The World March of Women and the Red Latinoamericana Mujeres Transformando la Economía join all feminist organizations and social movements from Honduras to condemn and strongly reject the military coup against president Manuel Zelaya Rosales, organised by the Army and the President of the National Congress, Roberto Micheletti, with the support of the mass media controlled by the oligarchy of that country.

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APWW tackles strong links between media and feminist advocacies
Thursday, 02 July 2009
by Nina Somera, Isis International

Isis International conducted a communications strategy workshop for members of the Asia Pacific Women's Watch network from 12 to 14 June 2009 in Saitama, Japan. The workshop aimed to help women's groups to project their advocacies on violence against women (VAW) both to mainstream and alternative media in ways that they find strategic and appropriate based on their local and national contexts. It also sought to reconcile the characteristics and expectations of both civil society and the media in the creating and disseminating ideas and information.

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High Diplomacy and Fragile Consensus Limit UN to Development Cooperation
Thursday, 02 July 2009
No Commitments to Reforming the Financial Architecture!!!
by the Women's Working Group in Financing for Development

[This statement was issued at the end of the UN Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that was held from 24 to 26 June 2009 in New York, United States. For more information on the conference, please visit, http://www.un.org/ga/econcrisissummit/ ]

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Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15
Thursday, 11 June 2009

Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing+15
22-24 October 2009
Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines

Sisters in Asia and the Pacific,

I am pleased to accept my nomination as Convener of the Asia Pacific NGO Forum on Beijing + 15, which will be held on 22-24 October 2009 at Miriam College, Quezon City, Philippines. I thank the Asia Pacific Women’s Watch (APWW), the Forum organizers, for entrusting to me the challenging and exciting task of bringing together women from Asia and the Pacific and beyond to once again take stock of the situation of women and craft responses to overcome persistent and emerging threats to the realization of commitments made in Beijing.

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