23 Mar 2016 ʺMedia compactʺ supports gender equality
Agreement vows to scale up media focus on women’s rights and gender equality issues through editorial coverage and decisions, complemented by gender-sensitive corporate practices.
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Agreement vows to scale up media focus on women’s rights and gender equality issues through editorial coverage and decisions, complemented by gender-sensitive corporate practices.
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U.N. panel of experts calls for coordinated action to combat sexism in the portrayal of women in news and popular culture.
...Commission on the Status of Women 60th session includes panel discussion on gender equality in the media.
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For International Women's Day, WACC calls for action to end news media sexism by 2020.
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WACC gender and communication partners focus on online and cyber violence against women.
...Gender equality remains high on the UN agenda and WACC's GMMP 2015 report generates a record number of stories....
After 20 years, research in 114 countries reveals continued severe disparity between representation of women and men in news media.
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The right to communicate with a gender perspective in the post 2015 development agenda, is part of a comprehensive approach that WACC and its regions are taking toward addressing the post-2015 SDGs.
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BRAZIL
...Preliminary results from the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2015 reveal an increase of just 1% from five years ago when only 24% of the people heard or read about in print, radio and television news were female.
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