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[George Conklin <gconklin@igc.org>]

In this Issue: Religious communicators moved by screening of Reel
Bad Arabs.

> Also in this issue:

WACC addresses Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
which concludes â??not enough news coverage of womenâ??.

> Extensive interest in WACC project support.

WACC supported documentary continues to receive international
recognition.

Venezuela's media is caught in a vicious circle.

> **News**

WACC addresses Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe,
which concludes â??not enough news coverage of womenâ??

By Lavinia Mohr, Deputy General Secretary and Director of
Programmes, WACC

â??The media have enormous potential to foster gender equality, but
they tend to perpetuate negative portrayals of women, focusing for the
most part on their physical or emotional attributes and confining them
all too often to stereotypical rolesâ??, said Swiss parliamentarian
Doris Stump at a hearing on combating sexist stereotypes in the media
held in Paris, March 24, by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europeâ??s Equality Committee." Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1736:the-parliamentary- assembly-of-the-council-of-europe-says-there-is-not-enough-news-coverage-of- women.html?Itemid=167

> Webinar to highlight peace project

By Rebekah Chevalier, WACC North America Vice-Chair

WACC North America is hoping to venture into new technological
territory this year by hosting a webinar. At its meeting March
25­26, 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts, the executive committee
discussed the idea of hosting a webinar in the fall on the topic of
its recently completed peace monitoring project. Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1737:webinar-to-highlig ht-peace-project.html?Itemid=175

> **Programme updates**

<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1728:extensive-interest -in-wacc-project-support.html?Itemid=166

> Extensive interest in WACC project support

By Lavinia Mohr, Deputy General Secretary and Director of
Programmes, WACC

WACC received almost 140 proposals for project support partnerships
by the 15 February 2009 deadline. Together these proposals total more
than 2.2 million Euros ­ an amount considerably larger than the
funds available to WACC for project partnerships. The number of
proposals received is seventy percent higher than the number received
last year. The WACC General Secretariat was pleased with an increase
in the number of project proposals from Asia and Africa. Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1728:extensive-interest -in-wacc-project-support.html?Itemid=166

<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1709:wacc-supported-doc umentary-continues-to-receive-international-recognition.html?Itemid=162

WACC supported documentary continues to receive international
recognition

By María Teresa Aveggio (Aguirre), Programme Manager, WACC

â??Geha Junction, Tel Aviv, a busy neighbourhood. Here, hundreds of
Palestinians live in a derelict underground multi-storey car park,
part of an abandoned, unfinished shopping mall. They slip into Israel
to find work, to try to bring home a small wage. Most nights of the
week they stay here, in subhuman conditions, six floors below ground
in the darkness amid dripping water, rubble and filth.â?? Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1709:wacc-supported-doc umentary-continues-to-receive-international-recognition.html?Itemid=162

> **Features**

<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1723:religious-communic ators-moved-by-screening-of-reel-bad-arabs-.html?Itemid=168

Religious communicators moved by screening of Reel Bad Arabs

By John Daniel Gore, Michigan State University

WACC North America hosted a free screening of "Reel Bad Arabs: How
Hollywood Vilifies A People", a documentary, featuring acclaimed
author and media critic, Dr Jack Shaheen who attended the screening
held in Boston, Massachusetts, March 26. WACC General Secretary, Randy
Naylor, and Deputy Director of Programmes, Philip Lee, also attended.
Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1723:religious-communic ators-moved-by-screening-of-reel-bad-arabs-.html?Itemid=168

<http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/venezuela/090305/venezuelas-media-caught -vicious-circle

Venezuela's media is caught in a vicious circle

... Outlets supporting Hugo Chavez proliferate under the media-savvy
president.

> By Charlie Devereux - GlobalPost

Caracas ? A community television station beams daily reports to
the shanty towns that sprawl just above its offices in the converted
stables of a former presidential residence. Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1716:venezuelas-media-i s-caught-in-a-vicious-circle-.html?Itemid=168

> Religious fundamentalisms and women's rights

The Association for Women's Rights in Development, AWID, has
released a special series of publications on religious fundamentalisms
and women's rights. The publications draw on the results of a global
survey of over 1,600 womenâ??s rights activists, in-depth interviews
with over 50 key experts, as well as supplementary research and
consultations. Read more...
<http://www.waccglobal.org/component/content/article/1718:religious-fundamen talisms-and-womens-rights-.html?Itemid=167

> **Pictorial news**

New members of the WACC Middle-East Regional Executive Committee
attending the annual Regional Executive Committee meeting in Cairo:
(left) Tamara Kharroub, the regional Vice-Chair who is also the
Manager of the International Center of Bethlehem, Palestine and Mary
Therese Kreidy (Right), the regional Treasurer who is the Programs
Manager for Télé-Lumière, one of the first Christian  television
stations in Lebanon and the Middle East.

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