• Indian media coverage of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict
• Survey on status of women journalists in the print media, thehoot.org
• Addressing the needs of women affected by armed conflict: an ICRC guidance document, comminit.com
• Fair Play? Violence, gender and race in video games, comminit.com
• The Iraqi media three months after the war: a new but fragile freedom, comminit.com
• September 11th: southern perspectives by Olfa Lamloum, comminit.com
• Journalism and The War on Terrorism. Final Report on The Aftermath of September 11 And the Implications for Journalism and Civil Liberties, by Aidan White, General Secretary, Updated Version
  
• Commission on the Status of Women 2004, UNIFEM
  
• South Asia and trade liberalisation. communication initative
• Feminist Media Activism in India. A short overview of Carolyn M. Byerly's research in India.
• Online Training: survey results. Intriguing results of the survey
  recently hosted by The CI regarding the interest in and need for online
  training in communication for development. As background, to view the survey questions, please see http://www.comminit.com/ohio_survey.php
  
• A forum of contradictions, Freidrich Ebert Stiftung analyses the WSF, looking at the choice of Mumbai as venue, the reactions to G-21, the problems posed by the scale of the event, and so on.
  
• Fundamentalisms and the Media — www.whrnet.org
  This report examines the role of the media in shaping understanding and
  affecting the dynamics of fundamentalist movements and related politics.
  
• Politics and Power: a gendered perspective from South Asia by Farida Shaheed — onlinewomeninpolitics.org. The worldwide paucity of women in authoritative positions and decision-making bodies, as we enter the 21st century, is a disconcerting reflection of how little power women still exercise in arenas where public policy is made and economic decisions taken.
• Political participation of women in South Asia by Farah Kabir —
  onlinewomeninpolitics.org. Male dominance in the formal political systems of South Asia is universal, but the degree of dominance may vary from country to country or regime to regime. Even when women do become a part of the formal political process as members of elite political groups, they are usually assigned to soft portfolios 'appropriate' for women's concerns.
• Human development in South Asia report documents discrimination against women by John Eberlee — onlinewomeninpolitics.org.
  Twenty-five years after the first United Nations Conference on Women, South Asian women lag far behind men in virtually all human development measures, according to the Human Development in South Asia 2000 Report: The Gender Question, the fourth in the annual series.
  
• Media Development issue on Indy Media — WACC
  
• Women and Media: Progress and Issues by Carolina Rodriguez Bello, WHRnet, October 2003, reviews gains in feminist advocacy on the women-and-media relationship. It explains how the intensified marketization and homogenization of media make more complex
  issues surrounding women's subjugation within and through the media.
• First Global Women's Scorecard on Bush Administration Released by the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), the Feminist Majority Foundation, and the Women's Environment and Development Organization, with the Communications Consortium Media Center, comparing the rhetorical promises made by the Bush Administration on international women's rights and health concerns against the actions taken by the Administration.
  Go to www.genderhealth.org or www.wglobalscorecard.org for a full copy of the first Global Scorecard
• The right to work by Ana Elena Obando, WHRnet, focuses on the discrimination women face in their places of work. It discusses international mechanisms and instruments and provides statistics related to the issue.
• Asia-Pacific Dialogue on Media Codes of Conduct — a paper by Li Xing, written in 2001, provides some information on women and the Chinese media
• Media & Peacebuilding - Concepts, Actors & Challenges: Working Paper by Christoph Spurk. The report summarises the basic concepts of media and peacebuilding, focusing on media assistance in conflict regions. It aims to: present a clear picture on the concepts, provide an overview of the strategies applied by different actors, highlight the actual trends and future challenges...
• The Drum Beat, issue 207, focuses on the communication aspects of a recent study on HIV/AIDS, change and mass media in South Africa. The study was extensive and addressed many aspects in relation to HIV/AIDS; however, this issue of The Drum Beat will spotlight the results and conclusions of only communication interventions and mass media.
• A study on the change in coverage of women in Indian newspapers over the past fifty years. The study has been undertaken by Unnati Features and sponsored by Unifem — article from The Hoot.
• Journalists in Danger — Summaries of first World Editors Forum session — from WAN
• Press Freedom is Major Battle of 21st Century: WAN President — WAN

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