Imagine media that promote gender justice Joanne Sandler The following article is a shortened version of a speech given at the WACC Congress on “Communication is Peace: Building viable communities” (South Africa, 6-10 October 2008). At that time, Joanne Sandler was Deputy Executive Director-Program of the United...
Venice (Italy) 2017 The INTERFILM Jury at the 74th Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica in Venice (August 30 to September 9, 2017) gave the 8th INTERFILM Award for Promoting Interreligious Dialogue to Los versos del olvido (Oblivion verses) directed by Alireza Khatami (France, Germany, Netherlands, Chile, 2017). Motivation:...
The articles in this issue are based on papers to be presented to the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (2018). They call for the global development agenda to promote gender equality and...
The 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, 12-23 March 2018. The CSW’s priority theme will be “Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and...
The 62nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, 12-23 March 2018.
...The legacy of women’s media networks that negotiated for the broadening of the Women and the Media section of the Beijing Platform for Action, to reflect the opportunity for women to be recognized as producers of their own media form, was the inclusion of the...
Developing gender-empowering media policies and normative frameworks for the media has been flagged since the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women (1995) as one of the steps to be taken in order to meet the goals of Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action...
When women media professionals attain very senior editorial positions, their achievement continues to make front page news, such is its rare occurrence.
...Cette contribution au dossier que prépare L’Alliance mondiale genre et médias (GAMAG) en vue de prendre part activement à la 62ème session de la CSW en mars 2018 ne porte pas sur un thème en relation avec la « participation et accès des femmes aux médias »...
If the monitoring of media content over the last 40 years has shown anything, it is that women’s ability to be seen and heard have not progressed at the same rate as their real-life roles.
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