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Radio project--Media for Africa Women's Rights (MEWOR)/Projet radio--Medias pour les Droits de la Femme en Afrique (MEWOR).


FEMNET is collaborating with FAHAMU (Networks for Social Justice) to carry out the Media for Women's Rights The effort to secure equal rights for women and to remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions, and behavioral patterns.

The women's rights movement began in the nineteenth century with the demand by some women reformers for the right to vote, known as suffrage, and
 (MEWOR) Project to be implemented in 2 pilot regions of Africa--Eastern and Western Africa. The project aims to develop a series of radio programmes to create widespread awareness on the Africa Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol has been recognised as a continental legal framework for the protection of women's rights in Africa. The campaign for its ratification The confirmation or adoption of an act that has already been performed.

A principal can, for example, ratify something that has been done on his or her behalf by another individual who assumed the authority to act in the capacity of an agent.
 and domestication domestication

Process of hereditary reorganization of wild animals and plants into forms more accommodating to the interests of people. In its strictest sense, it refers to the initial stage of human mastery of wild animals and plants.
 is spearheaded by a coalition of more than twenty organisations known as Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Coalition, in which FEMNET and FAHAMU are members. So far, the Protocol has been ratified in about 19 African countries and there is urgent need to encourage and mobilise the remaining 34 countries to not only ratify but also domesticate do·mes·ti·cate  
tr.v. do·mes·ti·cat·ed, do·mes·ti·cat·ing, do·mes·ti·cates
1. To cause to feel comfortable at home; make domestic.

2. To adopt or make fit for domestic use or life.

3.
a.
 the Protocol.

Through this 3-year MEWOR project, FEMNET and FAHAMU propose to use communication as a key strategy, by developing two types of radio programmes. Firstly, a series of radio drama programmes, which will target local communities through community radio stations as well as cartoon strips targeting younger audiences will be developed. Secondly, a series of current affairs current affairs npl(noticias fpl de) actualidad f

current affairs current npl(questions fpl d')actualité f

 radio programmes will be produced, which will target a separate audience of policy makers and opinion leaders and will be available for download from the Internet and shall be broadcast on radio stations.

A regional consultative and planning meeting will be held in May 2007. The meeting will bring together media professionals in both community radio and select media houses as key partners for the project. The key objective is to forge a partnership, common understanding and commitment to the project goals.

FEMNET est en train de collaborer avec FAHAMU (Reseaux de Justice Sociale) afin de mener un projet des Medias pour les Droits de la Femme La Femme is a women-only beach in Marina, Egypt which caters to Muslims who want to swim in comfort away from prying and prurient view of "men and cameras". External links
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 en Afrique (MEWOR) qui doit etre execute dans deux regions pilotes de l'Afrique--Afrique Orientale et Afrique Occidentale. Le projet vise a elaborer une serie de programmes radio en vue de creer une large prise de conscience sur le Protocole a la Charte Africaine des Droits Humains et des Peuples relatif au Droits de la Femme en Afrique de l'Union Africaine. Le Protocole a ete reconnu comme un cadre (company) CADRE - The US software engineering vendor which merged with Bachman Information Systems to form Cayenne Software in July 1996.  juridique continental pour la protection des droits de la femme en Afrique. La campagne pour sa ratification et son appropriation est supervisee par une coalition de plus de vingt organisations connue sous le nom de Mouvement de Solidarite pour les Droits de la Femme en Afrique-Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR), coalition dont FEMNET et FAHAMU sont membres. A present, le Protocole a ete ratifie dans a peu pres 19 pays africains et il est necessaire d'encourager et de mobiliser d'urgence les 34 pays qui restent non seulement a ratifier mais aussi a s'approprier le Protocole.

A travers ce projet MEWOR de 3 ans, FEMNET et FAHAMU proposent l'utilisation de la communication comme une strategie cle, en elaborant deux types de programmes radio, une serie de programmes de theatre radiophonique, qui vont cibler les communautes locales a travers les stations radio communautaires de meme que les bandes de dessins animes visant les audiences plus jeunes seront elaborees. Deuxiemement, une serie de programmes sur les affaires Les Affaires is a French language weekly business newspaper, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is owned by Medias Transcontinental, a wholly owned subsidiary of Transcontinental Inc.  courantes sera produite, laquelle va cibler une audience distincte composee de responsables des politiques et de leaders de l'opinion et ils seront disponibles pour telechargement sur Internet et seront diffuses sur les stations radio.

Une reunion regionale de concertation et de planification se tiendra en mai 2007. La reunion La Reunion may refer to:
  • La Reunion (Dallas), a communal settlement near present-day Dallas, Texas
  • Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar
 va regrouper les professionnels des medias tant de la radio communautaire que des Que.D (aka Q.Diesel) is a hip hop artist from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for his affiliation with Slum Village and world renowned producer and artist J Dilla, who also happens to be his cousin. He has released several twelve inch white labels with various record labels in the U.  institutions mediatiques selectionnees en tant que partenaires cles pour le projet. L'objectif cle est de forger un partenariat, une comprehension commune commune, in medieval history
commune (kôm`yn), in medieval history, collective institution that developed in continental Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
 et un engagement pour les objectifs du projet.
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