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WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
WINGS is at different times horrifying, exciting, funny, eye-opening and definitely inspirational. — Nikki Reece, program producer, Plains FM, Christchurch, New Zealand
WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world. WINGS programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women’s studies, and individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave, on the internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates on stories and new information about women’s media. “Though I have been involved in women’s issues for years, I was still struck by the contrast of your broadcast to the news we are usually hearing — news reflecting male interests in a basically male world. Women’s affairs are a hidden current in the flow of world events.”– Kristin Reilly, listener, Buffalo, New YorkWINGS Mailing List:E-mail [email protected] to receive periodic e-mail updates about WINGS programs and women’s media issues.
Recent Episodes
November 27, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
The 16 Days – November 25 – December 10 (Canadians combatting violence against women)
November 25-December 10 is recognized worldwide as the 16 Days Against Violence Against Women or now more often the 16 Days Against Gender Violence. But fighting back against such crimes goes on every day. This archival program from Canada covers methods tried, from changing media coverage of the 1989 Montreal Massacre to providing support services and influencing official reports, journalism and police practices.
ListenNovember 20, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Food Beneath Their Feet
A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow and use them. Many have medicinal advantages as well as nutritional ones, and can be grown without any costly inputs. Our guest today is Anastacia Chheruiyot who is a leader in this movement.
ListenNovember 13, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Rape and Resistance in Bangladesh
In 2020, massive public demonstrations led the government of Bangladesh to raise the maximum penalty for rape; but these university students say the problem begins with law enforcement failing to lay charges. They contrast common attitudes towards women and rape in their home country with the more feminist-influenced milieu in Canada.
Read MoreNovember 6, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Wildlife Women in Kenya
Team Lioness are 16 women wildlife rangers who manage the interface between humans and wildlife around Amboseli National Park. Also working on wildlife conservation in their own ways are the First Lady of Kenya and the manager of a wildlife tourism lodge who is breaking the grass ceiling in her own community.
Read MoreOctober 30, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Witchcraft Accusations, Violence and Torture of Women and Children
Witchcraft Accusations, Violence and Torture of Women and Children was a parallel event at the 2015 UN Commission on the Status of Women. Organized by Lois Herman of the Women's United Nations Rights Network, it included information from Nigeria, Papua-New Guinea, India, and other countries and regions - going into the rationales and motives behind such charges, and their sad results. The event addressed the global nature of witch accusations.
Read MoreOctober 23, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Feminist Foreign Policy
Three experts in the field of Feminist Foreign Policy give their opinions about this program. Hillary Clinton was lauded for her efforts in this field, but our three experts have ideas that go well beyond what Hillary Clinton would have dared.
Read MoreOctober 16, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Tech, Work and Care
In part 2 of her interview about studying technology in its human and organizational context, Professor Balka talks about its effects on use of touch in nursing care, uses and risks with outsourcing and data collection, and more.
Read MoreOctober 9, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Technology On The Frontlines
Most frontline workers in hospitals are women; most technology designers are men. The women's expertise and tacit knowledge is often undervalued, and not communicated to those who design tools they must use. Guest speaker Professor Ellen Balka founded the Assessment of Technology in Context Design Lab at Simon Fraser University in Canada and she has also headed an international research project to translate from the one sector to the other and get better usability results.
Read MoreOctober 2, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Women’s Agenda to Save the Planet – Part 2
Part 2 of last week's program: 30 years ago in Miami, 1500 women from around the world made a plan. They held a tribunal and a think tank to plan for sustainability of life on earth, forming demands for the UN Rio Summit on Environment and Development. Only today is everyone seeing the disaster they predicted and perhaps ready to adopt the measures they describe.
Read MoreSeptember 25, 2021 National, News & Public Affairs
Women’s Agenda to Save the Planet – Part 1
30 years ago in Miami, 1500 women from around the world made a plan. They held a tribunal and a think tank to plan for sustainability of life on earth, forming demands for the UN Rio Summit on Environment and Development. Only today is everyone seeing the disaster they predicted and perhaps ready to adopt the measures they describe.
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