Articles about Media Institute Of Southern Africa
SADC countries back tracking on media freedom
16 November 11
While positive signals elsewhere in the continent show that governments are embracing principles of free access to information, Southern African Development Community (SADC) seem to be retrogressing. Namibia and South Africa, once beacons of media freedom in the region, are no longer conducive environments for the... [read more]
Editor's note
16 September 11
by Saeanna Chingamuka
This month's edition has come out at a time when media practitioners including journalists, media educators and media activists are in Cape Town to attend the first Pan African Conference on Access to Information. The GMDC seminars have sought to give a voice to citizens on the... [read more]
This month's edition has come out at a time when media practitioners including journalists, media educators and media activists are in Cape Town to attend the first Pan African Conference on Access to Information. The GMDC seminars have sought to give a voice to citizens on the... [read more]
Gender Links becomes a coalition member of Windhoek +20 campaign
05 August 11
Gender Links (GL) is now a coalition member of the Windhoek +20 campaign. Among other things, GL will be canvassing the draft declaration on access to information with its partners, host seminars that provide citizens with a platform to debate access to information issues, put together a journal and also input in... [read more]
Southern Africa: Towards the 7th Southern Africa Civil Society Forum
18 July 11
The Southern Africa Gender Protocol Alliance will participate in the 7th Civil Society Forum slated for 8-9 August 2011 in Johannesburg with a smaller caucus meeting in Luanda on 13 August, ahead of the SADC Heads of State Summit. The Forum will be held under the theme: "Social Economic Justice for Poverty... [read more]
GENDER, MEDIA, DIVERSITY AND CHANGE: TAKING STOCK
07 June 11
Regional relevance: Africa
Gender Links (GL), the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) and the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network hosted the fourth Southern African Gender and Media Summit. The Summit brought together media practitioners, trainers, gender activists, media regulators and all those who subscribe to the GEMSA... [read more]
Pat Made
24 March 11
My GL journey began earlier than the GL we know today. Colleen Lowe Morna and I worked in the same international news agency (IPS) for years and while I was still at the news agency in the early 2000's, Colleen and Zohra Khan in the early days of GL worked with IPS Africa to produce manuals for the media on Gender,... [read more]
Malawi dancing towards dictatorship again
27 February 11
"Bingu Okays newspaper ban law" screamed newspaper headlines a day after the Republic of Malawi's president signed a repressive media law.
To me this was not only shocking but an intimidation and a threat to my journalism profession.
I grieve also because the law just came into power a month after I had... [read more]
Gender and Media Progress Study: Southern Africa
26 February 11
Regional relevance: Southern Africa (SADC)
In 2009/2010, Gender Links, the Gender and Media Southern Africa (GEMSA) Network and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) undertook the Gender and Media Progress Study (GMPS) covering over 30 000 news items in 14 countries.
Building on the Gender and Media Baseline Study (GMBS) of 2003; the HIV and AIDS and... [read more]
Zambian lawmakers excuse gender violence
24 November 10
Regional relevance: Zambia
September 2010 cast a dark cloud over Zambia’s chances of ending gender-based violence when two political leaders violently assaulted their wives. [read more]
Gender and Media Summit and Awards
02 November 10
Approximately 160 participants from 13 SADC countries as well as the USA, Canada, India and Uganda, gathered at the Birchwood Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 13-15 October for GEM Summit. Participants have raised a concern about increasingly poor media practice in the Southern Africa region, especially... [read more]
