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Research and advocacy have provided GL with useful information on gender gaps in the media leading to more informed and structured training initiatives. GL seeks to empower media practitioners with gender analysis skills and to build citizens capacity to hold media and governments accountable.
The training work has taken several dimensions including the development of a wide array of training materials and tools; short courses on different themes like gender violence, HIV and AIDS, gender, elections and the media and gender and economic reporting. In 2006, GL piloted a media literacy course for the general public in South Africa. This has since been extended to different targets groups in the region including school going learners, women in politics and journalism and media trainers. GL also aims to take forward the findings of the Gender in Media Education (GIME) audit through Centres of Excellence for mainstreaming gender in media education.
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Gender in the 2011 South African Local Elections
12 December 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
The 2011 local government elections that witnessed a decline in women's representation at the very moment that South Africa should be redoubling its efforts to achieve gender parity underscores the need for a legislated quota for women in national and local elections. [read more]
 Designing for equality: best-fit, medium-fit and non-favourable combinations of electoral systems and gender quotas
09 November 11
Regional relevance: International
Today, the average proportion of women members of parliaments stands at a mere 17.2 per cent. Only 19 countries in the world have achieved the goal of 30+ per cent women's representation in national legislatures, a goal which was adopted by the Beijing Process in 1995. There are two important variables that affect... [read more]
Gender in the 2010 Tanzania elections
29 June 11
Regional relevance: Tanzania
This report provides a comprehensive overview of the gender, elections and media project run by Gender Links (GL), in Tanzania during the October 2010 elections that witnessed an increase in women's representation in parliament from 30% to 36%. But women constituted a mere 12% of news sources, compared to the... [read more]
South Africa Media Literacy training for community radio stations, Limpopo 2010
24 June 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
This brief report details the activities of the University of Limpopo and Limpopo Community radio stations Gender and Media Literacy training conducted Jacaranda Lodge from 22nd to 26th November 2010. [read more]
Malawi Polytechnic Media and Literacy Training 2011
24 June 11
Regional relevance: Malawi
The Faculty of Education and Media Studies of the Malawi Polytechnic (University of Malawi) in partnership with Gender Links (GL) and Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre (MHRRC) held a Gender and Media Literacy Training of Trainers from 28 to 30 January 2011 in Malawi. [read more]
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Head scarves raise hackles - Mail and Guardian
17 January 12
Regional relevance: South Africa
...Rude and embarrassing treatment by passport officials over religious dress upsets local Muslims
Muslim woman has lodge a complaint with the department of home affairs after officials at the passport control section of OR Tambo International Airport allegedly told two of her daughters that they needed to remove... [read more]
All the prime Minister's women - Herald
17 January 12
Regional relevance: International, Zimbabwe
It is the lifestyle of the rich and famous: top of the range cars; holidays in exquisite resorts and lots of women. They enjoy the fun irrespective of the media scrutiny. In some cases, they never seem to learn from their weaknesses. Former United States president Bill Clinton was a well-known womaniser. From a... [read more]
32 years of keeping his HIV status from women - Star
12 January 12
Regional relevance: International
A former professional wrestler has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for having sex with women without telling them he had tested positive for the virus that causes Aids. Andre Davis, 29, was sentenced on 14 counts of felonious assault. As a wrestler he used stage names including Gangsta of Love and Sweet Sex... [read more]
How can women rape men? - Daily News
09 November 11
Regional relevance: Zimbabwe
Girls Child Net-work director Betty Makoni yeaterday caused a furore on a social nertworking site, facebook after posting comments that seemed to insinuate that the current noise about the rape of men and trade in semen should be ignored. Makoni said she does not understand how women could rape men and demanded that... [read more]
Feminist View of Gender Budgeting in Zimbabwe
09 November 11
Regional relevance: Zimbabwe
Budgeting is perhaps one of the most fundamental aspects in the life of a human being, organisation or country. Budgets are an element of an organization’s financial management that addresses the overall fiscal integrity of an organization and is an ongoing process. Budgeting entails the allocation of resources... [read more]
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