Three decades after governments pledged transformative change for women through the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, progress towards gender equality in and through the world news media continues to flatline, according to newly released findings from WACC’s 2025 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP). The Highlights...
Who makes the news in 2025? What progress has been made towards gender equality in and through the media over the past three decades? What can be done to address remaining gaps and current challenges? On Thursday, 4 September, WACC Global and the GMMP Network will...
New data from global research with additional analysis of Covid-19 news Twenty-five years after the Fourth UN World Conference on Women (Beijing), the news media remain far from being inclusive spaces for women, vulnerable women, and historically marginalized groups, according to preliminary results released by the...
Inclusion of key stakeholders in text, democratic deliberation’ needed A group of women’s rights organizations and non-governmental organizations is urging the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to postpone the adoption of the final draft version of its Political Declaration. The group is concerned that it “omits...