Gender & media
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There are four legs to GL’s gender and media work:
Research includes the Gender and Media Baseline Study; the Gender and Media Audience Study; the gender audit media development NGOs supported by SIDA; Glass Ceilings
Policy 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 aims to ensure that 80 percent of all newsrooms have HIV and AIDS and Gender policies by the end of 2008.
- 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.
- Advocacy Projects to monitor the media (“Media Watch”). This portfolio also includes GL's pioneering efforts to develop and test gender and media literacy tools using the manual, Watching the Watchdogs.
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Daily Links@CSW: Monday 8 March 2010
06 March 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: International, Regional
As the US delegation circulated a resolution on maternal mortality at the Beijing+15 review Friday, activists from around the globe called on government to accompany this with strong language on sexual and reproductive rights. [read more]
Daily Links@CSW: Friday 5 March 2010
05 March 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: International, Regional
NGOs struggling to get thier foot in the door of Beijing+15 are calling on the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon to put his money where his mouth is by "making social dialogue a reality."
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Daily Links@CSW: Thursday 4 March 2010
04 March 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: International
As the impact of the financial crisis continues to reverberate across the globe, delegates from North and South meeting in New York for the Beijing +15 review say that women are carrying a disproportionate burden of the costs. [read more]
Daily Links@CSW: Wednesday 3 March 2010
03 March 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: International
Today, scores of women will be getting in gear for the final drive to get the UN to consolidate the several agencies and units dealing with gender issues into one effective body with strong ties to civil society. [read more]
Daily Links@CSW: Tuesday 2 March 2010
02 March 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: International
As an activist at the Global NGO forum declared that it would take an earthquake to achieve gender equality, everything else about the Beijing+15 review pointed to a timid holding of the line where women's rights are concerned. [read more]
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A life committed to speaking truth to power...
28 January 10 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
Gender Links would like to state its unconditional support to Bishop Paul Verryn, in light of the recent disciplinary proceedings instituted against him by the Methodist Church. [read more]
‘Offensive’ billboard creates a stir
29 September 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
This article based on a Teazers club billboard deemed offensive by a cross section of people in South Africa’s Johannesburg City. The billboard shows a woman with super sized breasts lying on her back, with knees bent and one hand covering her breasts. The words no need for gender testing a written across the... [read more]
Celebrating culture in all its diversity
24 September 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
Running from 22 to 25 September in Johannesburg, the World Summit on Arts and Culture is a chance for national arts councils, ministries of culture and other agencies to discuss issues affecting arts and creativity. And it’s also a chance to showcase the best in local creativity, and celebrate our diverse cultures. [read more]
Standing together in the face of abandonement
22 September 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: Zambia
My name is Mubayandi Kwiima.* I am 39-years-old and a mother of five. I’m the second wife in the polygamous marriage of three wives. I work as a clerk at one of the government ministries in Zambia. [read more]
Caster Semenya as You Cover Girl
18 September 09 | (0) Comments
Regional relevance: South Africa
South African glossy magazine You, ran a four page spread of the 800m world champion Caster Mokgadi Semenya that carries pictures of her at the centre of a gender testing controversy, wearing makeup, jewelery, a new hairstyle and a glamorous dress. An Australian newspaper broke a story of how International... [read more]
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