Seems like you can’t fight for recognition of women in discussions about diversity without being drawn into TERF wars. The TERF—trans-exclusionary radical feminist—label is increasingly being applied to disparage voices urging protection of the modest gains for women in the steep road to gender equality,...
Pursuit of profit and social media algorithms foster and elevate hate into the mainstream. In yet one more example, misogynistic and violent messages made by influencer Andrew Tate, recently banned from social media platforms, were viewed billions of times on TikTok alone. His rise on...
To help amplify the voices of women and girls in marginalized communities, WACC is supporting a project that will establish digital media literacy schools and produce media literacy modules in local languages in India. Ideosync Media Combine, a communication for social change organization in New Delhi,...
Noting that Africa has been “at the tail end” regarding women’s participation as sources, subjects and reporters of news, Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) coordinator Sarah Macharia urged attendees at the Africa Women in Media (AWiM) Conference to help create a “more just and equal” media ecosystem...
A WACC-supported project in Bolivia will work to establish a network of rural communicators, a higher percentage of them women, who can produce content on gender and climate change for the radio station of El Ceibo, the first certified organic cocoa operative in the world. “The...
At least 900 journalists from Nigeria will be trained on the fundamentals of gender equality in news sources as part of a WACC-supported project this year. The Media and Gender Enlightenment Initiative (MEGEIN), a local NGO established in 2008 "to build a gender-sensitive mass media" in...
A “worrying” situation captured by Latin American countries which took part in the 6th Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the rise in the representation of women in the news as victims of violence, criminality and femicide, according to the Latin America regional report released...
A WACC-supported project will train about 90 women, young people and persons with disabilities in the use of digital media to enable them to have their voices heard and increase their access to information in disadvantaged communities in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The...
Kamla Bhasin, a beloved pioneer of the women’s rights movement in South Asia who also wrote poetry, songs and books about feminism and human rights, died in Delhi on Friday, September 25, after a short bout with cancer. She was 75. Bhasin who described herself as...
WACC and the *Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) today launched a fundraising campaign to support Afghan women journalists within its network who are in urgent need of support after the Taliban gained control over the country August 15, 2021. “The space that women journalists...