As part of Isis International's efforts to share information, we produce a weekly news and features newsletter - Women's News Watch which can be sent either through the mail or through e-mail. It focuses on women's issues, news and views from around the Asia-Pacific Region. The following are replies to our first batch of issues:
Dear Isis,
Greetings from CHETNA!
We are thankful to you for sending us a weekly news - Women's News Watch. It will be gready useful for our library and will become a storage of information. Kindly keep CHETNA's name in your mailing list.
Thanking you.
Yours sincerely.
Ahmedabad 380 004, Gujarat, India
Dear Isis,
Many thanks for the 29 October-12 November Women's News Watch via E-Mail. There is some interesting material there which I shall keep on file.
I find the contact addresses that you supply with many of the articles particularly useful.
Our priority coverage at Panos are environment and development, with some health issues (particularly when they are connected with public health).
We are keen to carry more articles on and by women. So, I hope we can build on these initial contacts. I shall certainly do my best to spread the news about Women's News Watch.
Best wishes.
London Nl 9PD, U.K.
Dear Isis,
Thank you for your letter of 19 November and the enclosed Women's News Watch. Really I find the news and features very interesting and used one of them in our newsletter No. 23 on ethnic minority people in Thailand, in the section of News from Around the Region. The newsletter {Thai Development Newsletter) is coming out at the end of this month, hopefully. At the time of writing, it is at the printers already.
As our main issue of interest at the moment is natural resource management and ordinary people, most of our space in the newsletter tend to cover more of the mentioned issue than women's. Besides, the issue itself is more attractive than such distant natural resource management Therefore, I think those working on women's issues do not apparently have a problem presenting their perspective to their audience.
Let's keep each other posted.
Yours sincerely,
Bangkok 10120, Thailand
Dear Isis,
Greetings!
Thank you for continuously sending us copies of Women's News Watch. This will make us updated on different issues confronting women in various fields.
We are still hoping that we are going to receive them regularly this year.
Again, thank you and more power.
Sincerely yours,
Quezon City, Phihppines
Dear Isis,
Greetings from Swadhina, India. Many thanks for recent copies of Women's News Watch. We would like to receive it regularly. Therefore we have filled up your form. Enclosed please find the order slip. With every best wish.
Yours sincerely,
Calcutta-700019, India
Dear Isis,
Thank you for the offer of the Women's News Watch weekly. We would like to get this publication.
If it is convenient for you to mail it to us on monthly basis, that arrangement will suit us fine.
Best wishes.
Yours sincerely.
St Michael, Barbados
- To all the above and to others who have so far responded, we thank you for your encouraging comments. To everyone now receiving Women's News Watch and to those of you who will be receiving it in the future, we hope that the disseminating of woman's news continues to expand and that we, as women, will learn that what we have to share is important, relevant and vital to our growth. - Editor