The Virtual Resource Centre (VRC) is an online resource centre for trainers, educators, journalists, gender and media advocates and students. The VRC includes case studies and clippings of media articles.
The VRC case studies and clippings may be searched using the following criteria: * Country * Theme * Skills * GEM classification (The GL Gender and Media classification system highlights whether an article illustrates a blatant or subtle gender stereotype; is gender aware or gender blind. Click here read more on the GEM classification. )
Both the media clippings and case studies have a description of the article. The case studies are written as training resources and include an analysis of the articles from a gender and journalistsic perspective and links to other training resources. The media article is attached as a jpeg to the case studies and clippings.
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Some 200 schoolgirls will no longer have to skip school because they lack sanitary pads, The pads were donated by Procter and Gamble at Singobile Primary School and Louisville Combined School in Mpumalanga this week.
“Many impoverished young girls miss days of school each month because they lack basic sanitary... [read more]
Discussions around sexual propriety always make me cringe, and thanks to our dear sports minister and his recent sex scandal. I've been cringing quite a lot lately. The problem is not with people voicing opposing views, not at all: the issue is afar more fundamental. Listen to enough o these discussions and you... [read more]
A small church house shelters a dozen Masaai girls escaping female circumcision and early marriages, age-old customs of the Kenyan tribe now frayed by health risks and new laws. While Masaai elders strongly defend their culture, some men have turned their backs on it, and in the town of Narok, west of the capital,... [read more]
Two months before the United Nation's big climate indaba, COP 17, the hardline stances of the different economic blocs and countries are posing a threat to chances of a deal in Durban. Most analysts agree that a legally binding agreement is highly unlikely, but negotiators are pushing for a clarity on a second... [read more]
Rape is one form of gender violence that affects more women than men. This type of violence not only infringes on women and girls’ rights but also exposes them to HIV, a virus that causes Aids. The perpetrators of this form of violence must at all cost face the law and police have a crucial role to play in the... [read more]
Life will never be the same for Ms Mositi Disang of Serowe after recieving a four roomed house from Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) National Womens Wing over the weekend.
Ms Disang who could not hold tears during the handing over ceremony of the house told BOPA that her dignity was now restored courtesy of BDP... [read more]
Copying and sending sexually explicit material via the internet or from your cell phone could see you charged with manufacturing and disturbing child pornography -no matter how young you are. This is the warning from police after four teenagers were arrested in connection with cell phone video circulated among... [read more]
A march against gender based violence will start today at 7 am from BBS Mall to the Main Mall and will be led by Kgosi Arnold Somolekae of the Broadhurst Customary Court. The march, organised by the Ministry of Labour and Home Affairs, is the culmination of three day seminar to create a platform for interactive... [read more]
Sex workers, especially Zimbabweans in Botswana, have told a workshop that the government should legalise their profession and allow them access to life saving anti retroviral (ARV) drugs because "we are here to stay".
They made the plea at the workshop held at the Anglican Church in Gaborone, whre they were taught... [read more]
As she crawls out of her dirty thread-bare blanket, her HIV ravaged skeleton frame, hardly strong enough to sustain her, quickly gives in. Eighteen year old Miriam Mwadzipura falls back to her floor bed made up of an old sack and another tattered blanket. Her negligible weight is even too strong for her little... [read more]
