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With its original slogan, "gender equality in and through the media" GL is credited with creating a gender and media movement in Southern Africa and championing this cause across the globe.
From the original Gender and Media Baseline Study, GL's cutting edge gender and media research portfolio has covered the full range of media education; institutional composition of the media; media content and audience response. GL's advocacy on gender and the media has included being a founding member of the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network; co-hosting the biannual Gender and Media Summit and several research and book launches. Policy work includes pilot projects to develop gender policies with media houses; pilot projects to develop gender policies and codes of ethics with regulatory authorities and the Media Action Plan on HIV and AIDS and Gender that aimed to ensure that 80 percent of all newsrooms have HIV and AIDS and Gender policies by the end of 2010. Training includes the training tools that GL has developed; ongoing in-service training conducted with media training institutions; the pilot project to mainstream gender in media education, and the Virtual Resource Centre of Case material for trainers. GL has also established a Gender and Media Diversity Centre, a partnership based on "connection, collection and collaboration" between media development NGOs and knowledge institutions.
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Diversity Exchange, Issue 23, December 2011
16 December 11
Regional relevance: Regional
Welcome to Issue 23 of the Diversity Exchange, the last for the year 2011! The buzz- word during November and parts of December has been COP 17. The global climate change conference ran from 28 November to 9 December. Researchers, activists, ministers youth, faith based organisations and journalists among other... [read more]
Gender in the 2011 South African Local Elections
12 December 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
The 2011 local government elections that witnessed a decline in women's representation at the very moment that South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections. [read more]
Reporting GBV
22 November 11
Regional relevance: Regional
The prevalence of GBV in Southern Africa is very high. The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that one out every three women experience GBV at some point in their lives. GBV both reflects and reinforces the inequalities between women and men and often compromises the dignity of the affected. The media has a... [read more]
Gender, climate change and sustainable development - November 2011
15 November 11
Regional relevance: Regional
This concept details GL's planned activities in the run up to, during and after the United Nations 17th Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP 17) taking place in Durban from the 28th of November to the 9th of December 2011. Gender Links, (GL) and the African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWCFS) plan to train... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 19, August 2011
09 August 11
Regional relevance: Regional
In our newsletter last month, we highlighted the phone-hacking scandal that witnessed the closure of the News of the World, newspaper. The closure of the 168 year old newspaper is an opportunity for citizens to question the issue of rights and responsibilities. The scandal is far from ending as Murdoch and his... [read more]
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Madagascar: Care work that counts
22 June 11
Regional relevance: Madagascar
I didn't originally have any intention of becoming a care giver. But being a journalist, people have a tendency to turn to me for advice or to talk about their problems. This is how I have embraced, so to speak, this work: I have become an advisor, or even mediator in many cases. For that reason I am interested in,... [read more]
Cautious Celebration in Face of Bias, Violence and Media Stereotypes
08 March 11
Regional relevance: International
Today, the 8th of March 2011, marks 100 years since the first celebration of International Women's Day, but the struggle for women's rights remains a battle to be won, particularly for women in the media says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Despite winning the right to vote and, in many countries,... [read more]
South Africa: No press freedom until women’s voices are equally heard
19 October 10
Regional relevance: Regional
There can be no press freedom in South Africa until women's voices are equally heard in the media, Gender Links has said in a statement to mark National Press Freedom Day. [read more]
Summit decries gutter journalism; urges media to "get in step" with the Africa-wide march to gender equality
15 October 10
Regional relevance: Regional
As the African Decade for Women is launched in Nairobi today the Fourth Southern African Gender and Media (GEM) Summit has called on the media to "get in step" with the march to gender equality. [read more]
Activists condemn Ugandan tabloids' homophobic violence
15 October 10
Regional relevance: Regional
On the 2nd of October 2010, a newly formed illegally operating tabloid called The Rolling Stone in Uganda published a story in its front page titled "100 pictures of Uganda's Top homos leak". [read more]
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