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NAME OF ARTICLE: Xenophobic thugs: We’ll burn you alive NAME OF PUBLICATION: City Press DATE: 26 April 2015 COUNTRY:  South Africa Notwithstanding the grim proportions, researchers did find some examples […]

NAME OF ARTICLE: Where are the real LGBTI roles? NAME OF PUBLICATION: Mail and Guardian DATE: 24 April 2015 COUNTRY:  South Africa Another example of Provoking debate about popular culture […]

Gender Links recently took part in the think-tank workshop Gender Stereotypes: a Preliminary Mapping For the Expert Brainstorm Workshop on Gender Stereotypes. This event was hosted by BRIDGE and the Institute of Development Studies with support from SIDA, and took place in Brighton, Sussex, United Kingdom from September 15th -16th, 2010. The goal of the IDS/BRIDGE workshop was to identify entry-points and promising policy responses to challenge gender stereotyping.

It is almost a month since public hearings on Protection of Information Bill started. However, news reportage on the matter indicates that the “masses” are still concerned with the nature of the bill and are calling for an addition of “public interest clause”.

Media activists and experts argue that if signed in its current state form, the bill is subject to abuse by government authorities.

In a landmark development, the Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Gender Links (GL). This MOU is an indication of commitment and buy-in into the Centres of Excellence (COEs) for gender in the media project. Zimpapers group is the largest print media group in Zimbabwe with eleven publications.

A radio journalist from Nigeria has won the United Nations Environment Programme’s Young Environmental Journalist Award (YEJA), beating over 120 entries from reporters across Africa.

Ugochi Anyaka (28) received her award at a special ceremony held during the 12th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council / Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.

Please let us support the Gabon widows’ call on the current Patriotic Front government to release the Report on the Gabon plane crash of 1993. Glove off to governments’ secrecy charade and enough is enough to the violation of the Zambian Enquiries Act over this long overdue report.

Germany’s top female journalists have organized to demand media outlets introduce a quota system assuring that at least 30 percent of the executive positions in the media industry are filled by women.

In a letter to 250 editors and publishers, hundreds of women journalists complained that only two percent of all editor-in-chiefs at Germany’s 360 daily and weekly newspapers are women

The 14-year-old star of a Canadian film has won the best actress award at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance as a young African girl turned child soldier.

Congolese actress Rachel Mwanza played 12-year-old Congolese girl, Komona, in Quebec director Kim Nguyen’s French-language drama War Witch

Gender Links will run the gender and media literacy course from 3 February to 6 April 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The course is being extended to the staff of loveLife, an organisation that works with youth on HIV and AIDS.

A brochure entitled “Gender Issue in Azerbaijani Media” has been launched to encourage women journalists in Azerbaijan to engage in trade-union work through training, networking, communication campaigns and lobbying and stand for election to the decision-making bodies.

From 20 to 24 February 2012, Gender Links (GL) will train trainers from academic institutions on the key concepts in gender mainstreaming, work on a plan of action for gender mainstreaming in curriculum for each institution, training on the use of the technology for online discussions.