The Virtual Resource Centre (VRC) is an online resource centre for trainers, educators, journalists, gender and media activists and students. The VRC includes media alerts and highlights of media products such as news, features, opinions, editorials , advertisements etc.
Media alerts and highlights 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.
To search the Media alerts and highlights database click here. You can search for clippings; case studies or both by ticking the relevant boxes.
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The parents of 18 year-old public relations student Pearl told her not to dump her sugar daddy because they did not want to give up a lounge suite he bought for them. The Umlazi teenager wanted to “get way” from the businessman, who infected her with HIV three months after they started a sexual relationship when... [read more]
She's young, she's bright and she's ambitious. She's also on a lamp-post near you, part of a tri-colour trio of feisty females. Meet Lindiwe Mazibuko, the DA's national spokeswoman. Check her out as she beams down on you along with party leader Helen Zille and Patricia de Lille from the DA's election poster, which... [read more]
There are two articles under analysis: one news story and one analysis. Both discuss the debate between the Muslim community and policy makers following the yet to be tabled Muslim Marriage Bill (MMB). [read more]
Top Gauteng cop Happy Vilankulu has told the Alberton magistrate's court how a 9-year-old girl was pinned down and her private parts removed while she was still alive. [read more]
L'islam et les femmes, notamment le Féminisme islamique sera débattu au Book Café lors de la 'réunion de culture'.Les invités de ce débat sont Jack Bizlall,Syndicaliste, Dev Virahsawmy, Poète et Linguiste et Mohamad Vahid, Observateur Politique et Sociale [read more]
Actress Candice Derman will bare her soul on e.tv's 3rd Degree this evening. Derman, who was sexually molested by her stepfather from the age of eight to 14, hid the terrible secret for years but found the courage to speak out. [read more]
Saida Sadouni does not conform to the typical image of an Arab revolutionary. But this 77-year-old camped out in the bitter Tunisian cold for more than two weeks in front of the prime minister's headquarters, leading the historic Kasbah picket that succeeded in forcing Mohamed Ghanouchi's interim government out of... [read more]
The smell of dustbins, the sound of children playing on dusty paths, adults wandering about hopelessly. Welcome to Coronation Park squatter camp in Krugersdorp, west of Johannesburg. [read more]
Wellington - Christchurch sex workers were enjoying a boom in trade after last month's earthquake as stressed emergency workers turned to the oldest profession, a report said yesterday. [read more]
The Virtual Resource Centre (VRC) is an online resource centre for trainers, educators, journalists, gender and media activists and students. The VRC includes media alerts and highlights of media products such as news, features, opinions, editorials , advertisements etc.
