Manual guide for women's concerns launched

ISLAMABAD - Putting together theoretical framework and practical guidelines for gender sensitive media advocacy strategies, the first of its kind manual titled “A best practice guide on raising women’s voices and concerns through radio” was launched here on Thursday.

The manual was lunched by Uks Research Centre, which is intended to provide broadcasters an in-depth and thought-provoking practical guide of how to produce issue-based programmes for public service broadcasting.

Minster for Information and Broadcasting Sherry Rehman was the chief guest on the occasion.

She lauded efforts of Uks Research Centre for compiling the manual and expressed the hope that media persons would take benefit of this guideline.

Speaking on the occasion, she said radio is the most accessible mean of communication in rural areas and through this medium women issues can be addressed in effective manners.

She emphasised on reviving the use of radio as a mean of communication as it can help end gender prejudices against women that prevail in our male dominating society.