“Educate a woman – Educate the world!”
Using the highest standard in journalism WNN – Women News Network is dedicated to bringing you in-depth international women’s news not found in our current public media stream. Starting from a writing assignment to cover global women’s news for the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2006, director Lys Anzia saw the vital need to report the many times hard and suffering stories of women. WNN news stories have appeared on UN affiliate and agency publications through WUNRN – Women’s UN Report Network and UN-INSTRAW, the United Nations Institute of Training and Research for the Advancement of Women.
WNN recently received recognition by UNESCO as a news network showing, “Professional Standards and Code of Ethics,” in a new UNESCO program launch to help train East European news media the importance of greater transparency and quality in reporting.
On December 16, 2008, WNN was honored with an Every Human Has Rights Media Award. For the award, WNN Zambia staff journalist, Sally Chiwama, was flown to Paris for a week-long Every Human Has Rights conference on humanitarian journalism. Her article for WNN, “When a Girl Student Stands Up and Wins“ was chosen as one of 30 outstanding entries out of 463 articles submitted. The international jury members for the EHHR Media Awards include: Bonnie Abaunza of Participant Media, award-winning journalist – Jimmy Briggs – who has reported for Amnesty International, WITNESS, and the International Rescue Committee, the 2007 winner of the Amnesty International Ginetta Sagan Award for Women and Children’s Rights - Lydia Cacho, the 2005 Crisis Action Policy Officer and Campaigner and Communications Director for The Elders – Katy Cronin, French freelance journalist and widow of Daniel Pearl – Mariane Pearl, Amnesty International Secretariat – Marcia Poole, General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists – Aidan White and Executive Director for Internews Europe – Manana Aslamazyan. Organisers and partners for the EHHR Media Awards include The Elders, The Global Forum for Media Development, Amnesty International and Internews.
WNN – Women News Network is continuing to expand today as new journalists join the global WNN team. The focus is on quality in-depth feature writing. WNN is a not-for-profit media news network. Other parts of the WNN network include women’s advocacy humanitarian publications, video/film, global breaking news portal. The outreach is global. The hope is to end suffering and to tell these vital stories in efforts to create a better world for all of us.
-A young girl formally from the slave-trade labor force of West Africa-
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