WIA Magazine: Call for Articles

The Women in Action (WiA) magazine is Isis International’s longstanding publication which, since the 1970s, has facilitated information exchange among women's movements especially in light of developments recognising women's rights.

It is a space for feminists and activists in the global South to articulate and strengthen gender analysis on various issues.

Download the Call for Articles for the next theme: "Women and Communications: convergence of different means of communication to empower women" to be published in October 2010.

This issue will cover:
• Revisiting Section J of Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA): Development in new media and information communications technologies (ICTs) and its impact on Section J and implementation of BPfA
• Community Radio (CR) and women's organising and advocacies: How do women use community radio to advocate various women's rights issues, for example, to stop violence against women, to participate in peace uilding, to claim climate justice, etc. Gender policy for community radio and strenghthen women's organising within the community radio movement
• Engendered use of ICTs: Potential and threats of ICT developments from the global South for women's empowerment and convergence of ICT and CR to empower women in marginalised communities

Link to Isis International website