Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 15, 2006
From
16th February – 8th March 2006, the World Association for Christian
Communication (WACC) is organising ‘Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of
Global Action on Gender and the Media
http://www.whomakesthenews.org/
Endorsed
by both the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the Who
Makes the News? campaign aims to promote gender equality in the media by
challenging the news media to take substantial and immediate action to ensure
that they represent women and men in a fair and balanced
way.
The
Who Makes the News? campaign begins on 16th February 2006. This is exactly one
year since hundreds of gender and media groups in 76 countries joined in an
effort of incredible solidarity to monitor the representation of women and men
in their news media as part of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005.
The GMMP 2005 results unfortunately show that the marginalisation of women in
the news media is still very much a reality.
The
Who Makes the News? Campaign will end on 8th March 2006 – International Women’s
Day
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm Together
with UNESCO, WACC and its partners worldwide challenge all media producing daily
news to give editorial responsibility to women editors and journalists to direct
the news on 8th March 2006 as a first step towards promoting gender equality in
the media – http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18295&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
During
Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media,
hundreds of gender and media activists around the world will organise activities
using the global, regional and national results of GMMP 2005 to establish a
dialogue with news media on their representation of women and men and to explore
ways to ensure that women are no longer marginalised in the news
media.
The
Who Makes the News? campaign is a unique and exciting opportunity for all those
who are committed to the promotion of gender equality and communication rights
to join together to challenge the media to fulfil their democratic
responsibility to represent women and men in a fair and balanced
way.
If
you would like further information about the Who Makes the News? Campaign or to
receive a Take Action Pack in English, Spanish or French please contact:
Anna Turley – AT@wacc.org.uk
We
look forward to hearing from you!
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http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18392&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Worldwide support to UNESCO’s campaign “Women Make the
News”
UNESCO’s online campaign aiming at women’s
empowerment and gender equality in the media “Women Make the News” has gained wide support throughout the world. To mark International Women’s Day that was celebrated last week, UNESCO appealed all media to give women editorial responsibility to cast the news on that day. UNESCO recalls that the newsroom environment
is changing in ways that require media managers to recognize the different talents women and men bring to the table. By failing to develop a greater understanding of what women bring to news organizations and by not making full use of their creative potential, intellectual capacities and leadership abilities, media executives deny women the right to personal and professional growth. The campaign “Women Make the News”, for From all over the world, media organisations, newspapers, internet To provide Internews Europe, an international NGO, produced in Mexico, Sahara news Channel In the Congolese National Radio The Women’s |
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