08 Feb 2017 WACC plays its part in International Development Week
Empowering women broadcasters from three community radio stations in central Uganda.
...Empowering women broadcasters from three community radio stations in central Uganda.
...Report promotes freedom of expression as a basic human right that allows people to express socioeconomic, political and cultural rights.
...WACC is bringing brings 19 project partners from 17 countries to participate in a consultation on “Gender and Media: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 2015 Era”.
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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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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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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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Two hundred million fewer women have access to the internet than men, according to a study released March 9, reports the Inter Press Service News Agency (IPS).
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