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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Moshupa Police are investigating a case in which a 33 year old lady who was reported to have been raped by 3 young men aged 18,17 and 22 years at Masokwe lands in Moshupa Sub District.
Acting Station Commander Michael Maphephu told The Mirror that the victim came with with her boyfriend (34) and the spent the night... [read more]
Eleven years ago a brave and fragile boy stood on a huge stage at the World Aids Conference in Durban and made an impassioned plea on behalf of people living with HIV. Last night, 10 years after the death of Nkosi Johnson, Mandisa Dlamoni stood on a stage during the 5th South African Aids Conference in that city and... [read more]
Late ANC stalwart Albertina Sisulu was a leader in her own right and was not just a wife of Walter Sisulu, ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantasha said yesterday. In the minds of many people Mama Sisulu was Walter Sisulu's wife. In her own right she was leader and activist, therefore she is not just an extension of... [read more]
A 17 year old girl was brutally raped overnight by a knife wielding man last Sunday in Sebina village, Tutume police have said.Station commander Supt Vusumusi Jorowe confirmed the incident in an interview with Ghetto Metro on Monday.The incident happened between 10pm and 12 midnight .The victim was treated at the... [read more]
C'est l’exaspération.A Port-Louis,l'on ne compte plus de terrains en friche.A Ste- Croix,Pointe-aux-Sables,Le Cornue,Briquerie,Cite La-Cure,Vallée des Prêtres et Paul Taureau....La mairie a donc décidé d'agir,en employant des mesures radicales.Il est même question de procéder a la saisie de ces terrains...... [read more]
Nobel-winning writer VS Naipaul faced criticism yesterday for saying he does not regard any female authors as his equal, even famed novelist Jane Austen because they are "sentimental". [read more]
As a South African I am deeply ashamed that it has taken UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to verbally chastise us about the frequent occurrences of so-called corrective rape ('No place for homophobia here', The Star, June 14). It is already bad enough that South Africa is considered the rape capital of the world. [read more]
Nkosi Johnson was a profoundly brave hero who had dedicated his life to improving the lives of other children and mothers. These were some of the sentiments conveyed by young and old during a memorial service held in Joburg last night to mark the 10th anniversary of Nkosi's death. A 17 year-old resident of Nkosi's... [read more]
There is a grand battle raging in Kenya that has pitted brawn against brain and male machismo against girl power. The movement has been triggered by a steady feminization of money and success and it is claiming many male scalps along way. They saying ‘it’s a men’s world’ has been booted on to the backburner... [read more]
It was a normal morning at Building Blocks children's home in Pinelands on Tuesday until the house mother Jenny Berger went to check on the babies in her care. In one cot she found a baby girl not breathing, minutes later a second baby was found dead in the same cot by another worker. [read more]
