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WINGS
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.
The year 2015 saw the finalization of a climate agreement include gender mentions and the 15th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, plus the annual 16 Days Against Gender Violence. Reports from UN Radio tell these stories and more.
Featured speakers/guests:
Lakshmi Puri, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women; Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the head of the African Union Commission; demonstrators outside the Paris climate talks, including Titi Akosa, Nigerian lawyer and the director of the Centre for 21st Century Issues, and Lean Dyllan, gender non-conforming representative from the Women’s Major Group; Syrian Refugee teacher and pupil; Zeina Hilal from the Inter-Parliamentary Union; Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women; UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon; Radhika Coomaraswamy, author of a report which aims to make UNSCR 1325 more effective; Yanar Mohammed, co-founder of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq.
Credits:
Hosts: Frieda Werden, Dianne Penn
Audio from UN Radio‘s Gender Focus page; editing for WINGS, Frieda Werden
