Media monitors at work in Senegal. Photo: FAMEDEV
Communication is a key factor in tackling Gender Inequality. It can play a crucial role in empowering people to challenge gender norms, promote gender justice and positive relationships among all genders. For gender activists and advocates the challenges...
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Media Development
Almost twenty years after the Women Empowering Communication 1994 conference,1 communicators return to Bangkok in December 2013 to consider questions about gender equality and women’s empowerment in and through the media. This year’s meeting, dubbed the Global Forum on Gender and Media...
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Media Development
“Media pluralism is the key that unlocks the door of freedom of information and freedom of speech.” – Miklós Haraszti.1
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Media Development
It was in 1792 that the British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights, Mary Wollstonecraft, published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Her book is a plea for gender equality at...
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UNESCO
In the spirit of promoting gender equality in the Media, UNESCO and partners have launched a video calling for action on gender equality and women's empowerment in and through media in the form of a Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMG)....
Communication rights were highlighted at the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) during a workshop given on Wednesday 6 November. Moderated by WACC President Dr. Dennis Smith, six community radio practitioners explained their work to workshop participants.