Newsletter
The GMDC newsletter, Diversity Exchange, keeps our partners and friends up to date on the latest news from the GMDC as well as pressing issues on Gender, Media and Diversity. The work of the GMDC is both local and global and we try to highlight first-hand perspectives from the African Continent and beyond. We hope that you will use this platform as a tool to voice your own thoughts on media, gender and diversity issues in times to come.
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Diversity Exchange, Issue 23, December 2011
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]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 22, November 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
Sex, politics and power seem to be at the centre of news in both the West as well as in the South. Dominique Strauss-Kahn is at the centre of a series of sex scandals that have allegedly thwarted his political aspirations to become the next president in France. As much as he is unpopular in his home country now, the... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 21, October 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
We have just come back from the Pan African Conference on Access to Information and Highway Africa Conference that took place from 17 to 19 September 2011 in Cape Town. All those who attended the conferences can attest to the robust discussions as well as 'serious' networking among participants. [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 20, September 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
This month's edition has come out at a time when media practitioners including journalists, media educators and media activists are in Cape Town to attend the first Pan African Conference on Access to Information. The GMDC seminars have sought to give a voice to citizens on the draft Declaration on Access to... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 19, August 2011
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]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 18, July 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
As much as we demand freedom of expression and professionalism in the media, the latest scandal involving News of the World, begs more of how we define media freedom as embraced in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News of the World is recently closed down after... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 17, June 2011
Gender and media freedom seminars will be held in ten Southern Africa countries over the coming weeks, kicking off with a Facebook and Twitter social networking campaign titled What has gender got to do with media freedom? The seminars will contribute to a draft Addendum to the Windhoek Declaration on Gender and the... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 16 May 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
This 3 May marked 20 years of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting Independent and Pluralistic Media, which was endorsed by UNESCO and the United Nations General Assembly in 1991. This endorsement ultimately led to the creation of 3 May as "World Press Freedom Day". [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 15, March 2011
Regional relevance: Regional
It seems 2011 has kicked off with some drama in the journalism profession, as well as action-packed protests in North Africa that have seen the end of several political careers [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 14, February 2011
A few weeks ago there was a revolution in Tunisia. Some sources say the revolution was not televised, but rather twitterised. On 14 January, Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali dissolved his government, called for legislative elections in six months and promised not to run in 2014. [read more]
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