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 as well as share your stories/events.
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Diversity Exchange, Issue 25, February 2012
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
The major highlight for the month is International Women's Day (IWD) that is celebrated annually on the 8th of March. The theme this year is "Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures." From April 23 to 25, Gender Links will hold the regional Third Gender Justice and Local Government Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa.... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 24 January 2012
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
New year, new beginnings! Welcome to Issue 24 of the Diversity Exchange, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) monthly newsletter. The New Year all starts with most of us making resolutions for what we want to achieve in the year. As the GMDC, we are starting on an exciting note and there is a lot of energy... [read more]
Diversity Exchange, Issue 23, December 2011
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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: Southern Africa (SADC)
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]
