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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.
WINGS is at different times horrifying, exciting, funny, eye-opening and definitely inspirational. — Nikki Reece, program producer, Plains FM, Christchurch, New Zealand
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. WINGS programs are used by non-commercial radio stations, women’s studies, and individuals. Programs can be heard on local radio stations, on shortwave, on the internet, and on cassettes. The WINGS Mailing List provides updates on stories and new information about women’s media. “Though I have been involved in women’s issues for years, I was still struck by the contrast of your broadcast to the news we are usually hearing — news reflecting male interests in a basically male world. Women’s affairs are a hidden current in the flow of world events.”– Kristin Reilly, listener, Buffalo, New YorkWINGS Mailing List:E-mail wings@wings.org to receive periodic e-mail updates about WINGS programs and women’s media issues.
December 20, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
WINGS 12-20-25
The African Union is a massive organization comprised of all 55 countries of the continent. Barbara Glover works with its Development Agency as lead investigator of a project titled "Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence in African Union Member States. " Glover is based in South Africa, but she came to Mombasa for a conference in November 2025. WINGS' Kenya correspondent Diana Wanyonyi interviewed her about her background and her work. She says youth are especially active in designing uses of AI for the general good, but their ideas can get taken away for development in richer countries.
Read MoreDecember 13, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
WINGS 12-13-25
The African Union is a massive organization comprised of all 55 countries of the continent. Barbara Glover works with its Development Agency as lead investigator of a project titled "Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence in African Union Member States. " Glover is based in South Africa, but she came to Mombasa for a conference in November 2025. WINGS' Kenya correspondent Diana Wanyonyi interviewed her about her background and her work. She says youth are especially active in designing uses of AI for the general good, but their ideas can get taken away for development in richer countries.
Read MoreNovember 29, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
WINGS 11-29-25
The African Union is a massive organization comprised of all 55 countries of the continent. Barbara Glover works with its Development Agency as lead investigator of a project titled "Advancing Responsible Artificial Intelligence in African Union Member States. " Glover is based in South Africa, but she came to Mombasa for a conference in November 2025. WINGS' Kenya correspondent Diana Wanyonyi interviewed her about her background and her work. She says youth are especially active in designing uses of AI for the general good, but their ideas can get taken away for development in richer countries.
Read MoreNovember 22, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
WINGS 11-22-25
In 2025, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a woman who is working to bring down the current leader of Venezuela - she's the 20th woman named to that award. But 20 years earlier, in 2005, women around the world created a campaign to jointly recognize a thousand examples, of the millions of women around the world, who struggle to prevent and repair the vast human damage from violent conflict. Nusrat Ara interviewed three of the nominated women peace activist from Kashmir for WINGS, about what they did - and are still doing! - in occupied Kashmir. And afterwards, the voice of Indian economist Devaki Jain, who was also one of the thousand women recommended for the Peace Prize.
Read MoreOctober 11, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
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Prominent Lesbian activist, novelist and nonfiction writer Sarah Schulman speaks in Vancouver BC, Canada, about her book Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair. Despite Schulman's strong reputation, the book could not find a publisher in the US, but was picked up by Vancouver's Arsenal Pulp Press. By 2018, it had sold more than 10,000 copies, and it is still in print. Schulman says it is not simple to divide the good and the bad, where the good are the abused and the bad the abusers; many who've been abused feel threatened by discomfort and respond with abuse. She argues that we need to untangle as best we can what is really happening between ourselves and others.
Read MoreOctober 4, 2025 National, News & Public Affairs
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On September 22, 2025, the President of the United Nations General Assembly convened a high-level meeting with heads of nations, organizations, and UN bodies telling what they had done to fulfill the promises of the 4th World Conference on Women, and what obstacles stand in their way. Here are excerpts from selected speakers, starting with opening remarks by the General Assembly President, Annalena Baerbock. Others: United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres; Diene Keita, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA); Reem Alsalem, UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and Girls; Nobel Peace Laureate Nadia Murad, a Yazidi who escaped captivity by the Islamic State; Memory Kachambwa, Executive Director of the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET); Nahla Haidar, chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
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