OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE - BUDAPEST
Network Women's Program

16 Days Media Campaigns to Combat
Violence Against Women

 

RESOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 Listed are resources that can be useful for your further work on the issue as well as those used for preparation of this course.

 

MEDIA

REPORTING ON VIOLENCE: a handbook for journalists (1997)

Written by Jane Stevens with Lori Dorfman and Lawrence Wallack (eds.)

Berkley Media Studies Group

http://www.pcvp.org/pcvp/media/

Reporting Human Rights and Humanitarian Stories: a Journalist's Handbook (1997 pilot)

Produced by Jo-Anne Velin in association with Human Rights Internet & The International Centre for Humanitarian Reporting

http://www.hri.ca/doccentre/hrreporting/handbook97/index.shtml

The International Journalists’ Network, Training Bulletin,

Published by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ)

http://www.ijnet.org

Media Briefing on Gender Violence by the Panos Institute

www.panos.org.uk à Media Briefings à Health à Gender Violence

Institute for Media, Policy, and Civil Society – IMPACS

www.impacs.org

 

ADVOCACY

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, USA

http://www.vawnet.org/vnl/library/general/NRC_apub.htm

A Community Checklist: Important Steps to End Violence Against Women

Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, USA

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/speeches/cheklist.htm

Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Rutger’s University

http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days00/logo.htm

UNESCO National Commission: Education for a Culture of Peace, Training Manual

http://ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/countries/SierraLeone/fawesl~1.html

The European Women’s Lobby

www.womenlobby.org

Amnesty International, worldwide Campaign Against Torture, www.stoptorture.org

Also www.web.amnesty.org à Library à Themes à Women

World Health Organization: Selected Readings on VAW Issue Sorted by Country

http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/vaw/bibliographies.htm

 

COMMUNICATION PLANNING AND STRATEGY (GENERAL)

The Communications Initiative

 

DATABASES OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS MATERIALS

Johns Hopkins University, Center for Communications Programs

MINCAVA: Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse, Electronic Clearinghouse

http://www.mincava.umn.edu