Seminars

The issue of 50/50 has recently received renewed interest, with Adv Tlakula of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) speaking out on the need for a legislated quota system to effect parity in women’s participation. The Women’s Ministry, in its green paper discussions framing the development of a Gender Equality Bill, has also identified the issue.

This concept note concerns a seminar that the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC) of Gender Links (GL) in partnership with Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) will host aimed at discussing gender matters regarding freedom of dressing and culture in Malawi.

Gender Links in partnership with loveLife will on 24th February 2012 hold seminar on “youth and multiple concurrent sexual partnerships.” Concurrent sexual partnerships is defined as having two or more partnerships that overlap in time.

With less than a month to the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Durban, debates and discussions – abound about the outcome of the meeting. At the centre of these meetings are adaptation and mitigation measures to climate change and the Global Climate Change Fund.

In the year 2000, The United Nations passed Resolution 1325 that seeks to address challenges that women and girls face in armed conflict. The resolution emphasises on armed conflict a thing which from the time it got passed to-date “rules-out” Southern African countries except Democratic Republic of Congo.

Three seminars were held during the month of August in Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania. These were moulded around Access to Information debates currently underway.

On 3 May 2011, the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day. For Africa, the 2011 celebration is special as it marks 20 years of the Windhoek Declaration. However, there can be no press freedom in Africa until women’s voices are equally heard in the media. The questions arising are: has the Windhoek Declaration enhanced media ownership by women? Are women’s voices represented in the media? What are the lessons learned over the last 20 years? What can Africa do going forward?

On 3 May 2011, the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day. For Africa, the 2011 celebration is special as it marks 20 years of the Windhoek Declaration. However, there can be no press freedom in Africa until women’s voices are equally heard in the media. The questions arising are: has the Windhoek Declaration enhanced media ownership by women? Are women’s voices represented in the media? What are the lessons learned over the last 20 years? What can Africa do going forward?

On 3 May 2011, the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day. For Africa, the 2011 celebration is special as it marks 20 years of the Windhoek Declaration. However, there can be no press freedom in Africa until women’s voices are equally heard in the media. The questions arising are: has the Windhoek Declaration enhanced media ownership by women? Are women’s voices represented in the media? What are the lessons learned over the last 20 years? What can Africa do going forward? The first seminar in South Africa will be held on 29 June in Johannesburg and media practitioners will discuss how gender can be put on the media freedom agenda. This seminar is part of a series to be held in the region between May and August 2011.

On 3 May 2011, the world celebrated World Press Freedom Day. For Africa, the 2011 celebration is special as it marks 20 years of the Windhoek Declaration. However, there can be no press freedom in Africa until women’s voices are equally heard in the media. The questions that arise are, has the Windhoek Declaration enhanced media ownership by women, are women’s voices represented in the media, what are the lessons learnt over the last 20 years, what can Africa do going forward? The GMDC will be convening seminars to discuss the mainstreaming of gender in media freedom issues.

On 8 March 2011 we will mark the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day (IWD). The 2011 United Nations (UN) theme for IWD is “Equal access to education, training and science and technology: Pathway to decent work for women”.
Gender Links’ theme is “Decent work, Decent lives: 100 years of herstory”.

Gender, media and local government elections will be the topic of discussion at a seminar to be held on 15 February in Pretoria, South Africa. The seminar will be jointly hosted by Gender Links, the Gender and Media Diversity Centre and the South Africa Local Government Association (SALGA). Political parties will be invited to speak and outline their party quotas.