12 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day

1. Entrusting women with editorial responsibility

UNESCO is inviting editors-in-chief of newspapers, radio, television online and offline to join this initiative, and to entrust women journalists and reporters with editorial responsibility for the newsroom on International Women’s Day or during the WMN campaign. The WMN 2013 will continue until 30 April 2013.

2. Submitting your stories

Media organizations, professional associations, journalists’ unions, women and men working in the media and civil society can use this platform to share their thoughts on 2013 WMN theme. Do national gender policies and strategies exist in your country? Are media featured in these policies and strategies? What has been the impact of media involvement in these gender policies and strategies? Through these and other questions share your experience, good practices and recommendations in promoting media integration in national gender policies and strategies and in advocating the end of violence against women.

Kindly submit your contribution to us by 30 April 2013 via this website, www.unesco.org/webworld/en/march8. They will contribute to inform UNESCO’s programmes. Some of the best contributions will be featured on the Women Make the News 2013 web page.

3. Spreading the word

Downloadable banners and logos are available on this website. Please use them to promote Women Make the News in your organization. These promotional materials cannot be used for marketing, advertising or in any other ways that are inconsistent with UNESCO’s mission.

4. Mainstreaming the topic at universities

Universities, colleges, training institutions, including UNESCO Chairs, can join this initiative, and to organize special debates or lectures on the theme, to mainstream the topic in relevant lectures and to promote gender equality in a form deemed necessary in their places of work – on International Women’s Day or during the duration of the WMN initiative.

5. Producing programmes on the topic

Radio and television programmes as well as small messages can be produced to be repeatedly diffused throughout the month, and especially on 8 March, based on UNESCO's Women Make the News 2013 theme, Towards a Global Alliance on Media and Gender.

6. Organizing debates and discussions

You can organize radio and television debates and discussions involving stakeholders (broadcasters, policy-makers, academics, legal fraternity) on the relevance of gender equality and particularly relating to this year’s theme.

7. Giving voice to communities

Phone-in radio shows can be organized in order to give voice to the community.

8. Interviewing media personalities

You can interview media personalities, both women and men, in your country about International Women’s Day and the theme for the UNESCO Women Make the News 2013.

9. Diffusing audio and video clips

You can diffuse UNESCO's audio and video clips on women and gender equality issues, which are available this website: click here.

10. Promoting UNESCO publications

You can download, exhibit and distribute publications, produced or supported by UNESCO:

11. Joining your National Commission for UNESCO

You can join the National Commission for UNESCO in your country to participate in the celebration of national events dedicated to International Women's Day.

12. Celebrating the Day with local media organizations

You can celebrate the Day together with the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC), local associations of community radios, national or regional print and broadcast unions, journalists' associations, women networks or citizens’ media groups.

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