The media policy arm of Gender Links aims to ensure that the SADC Gender Protocol targets of gender equality in and through the media are integrated into the work of regulatory authorities and media houses. Work with media houses began with the Media Action Plan on HIV and AIDS and Gender which involved developing gender aware HIV and AIDS policies with over 100 media houses across the region using the Diversity in Action handbook; a step by step guide to developing newsroom policies. Gender policy work builds on the success of a number of pilot projects with media houses in the region as well as the MAP initiative. GL is moving away from the six stage gender policy process to a much more sustained approach which will ensure ongoing backstopping and support to media houses through the establishment of 100 Media Centres of Excellence for gender mainstreaming in the media.
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MISA Draft Policy and Action Plan
07 June 05
Draft gender and policy action plan for the region's main advocacy and lobbying network on issues of media freedom. [read more]
YWCA Communications Strategy
07 June 05
Regional relevance: Zambia
The YWCA in Zambia, which has a long history of dealing with violence against women, convened a communications strategy workshop for its Women's Human Rights Programme. [read more]
Gender and The Times of Zambia
07 June 05
Regional relevance: Zambia
This report summarises the Zambian workshop on Covering Gender Violence convened by Gender Links and ZAMCOM from 5-9 November 2001. [read more]
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Regional relevance: Zimbabwe
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The newsroom is not a safe place for women journalists
09 December 05
Regional relevance: Zimbabwe
Despite several cases of rape and attempted rape, physical assault, subsequent unfair dismissals and all sorts of bullying tactics used against women in some Zimbabwean newsrooms, the response by authorities including the police has been lukewarm. Most often little or no action is taken against offenders. [read more]
Mozambique: Care worker salary pays for her ARVs
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Regional relevance: Mozambique
Today, I am visiting one of my patients, a 51-year-old man, Fernando. He was lying down on his bed, but I help him sit on one of the wooden chairs in his tiny home. His body is so thin; it looks like it will break, but he insists on sitting up to receive me. He is coughing and gasping for breath. Fortunately he is... [read more]
Lesotho: The silence that kills
26 October 05
Regional relevance: Lesotho
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 Women and girls carry the burden of care
17 October 05
Regional relevance: Mozambique
We have been on holiday from school for two days, so it is two days since we have eaten. We are all hungry, but I worry most about my aunt, because she refuses to take her tablets for tuberculosis when she has no food. She says they make her feel sick when she takes them on an empty stomach. She is getting very... [read more]
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