New York, 13 March: At a CSW59 session called, “Women and the Media: Advancing Critical Area of Concern J* of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action”, held yesterday at the UN headquarters yesterday, Geena Davis- Academy Award-Winning Actor and Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media said, “To achieve gender equality the enormous impact the media has on our unconscious biases that impact both men and women needs to be addressed immediately.”…Read more
CSW59: Gender, media and communication are intrinsic to who we are!
New York, 13 March: Twenty years ago, I was a young journalist working for the New Dehli-based Women’s Feature Service, producing a daily newspaper in Beijing. We had no E Mail yet. We had to go by bus from Hourou, about three hours away, to the main UN meeting , to file our stories. There we found various conservative forces hard at work rolling back the fragile gains made by women. So much has changed, yet so much remains the same! …Read more
CSW59: Day 4- Through to Cambodia, Australia and India by Nyasha Mazango
I rushed to the Malawian Embassy for the Alliance Meeting. The meeting brought the members to tackle issues in a more relaxed way. After the meeting we took a breather and were addressed by the Minster of Gender of Malawi. She was jovial and made us feel proud as a region. After mid-day, I managed to attend a session on “Response of Violence Against Women” which was chaired by the Executive Director for UN Women Phumzile Ngcuka. The session was interesting and conducted in question-answer manner. …Read more
Tuesday 10 March 2015 6.15pm UN Church Centre Building Gender Links and the SGPA will hosting a side event to discuss the development of a gender responsive implementation framework for the post 2015 agenda and the importance of strong indicators and targets.
Thursday 12 March 2015 10.00 Ăâ 11.15 am DAG HAMMARSKJOLD AUDITORIUM, UN HEADQUARTERS, NEW YORK Women and the Media: Advancing Critical Area of Concern J* of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action Download more information
Google hangouts
Thursday 12 March 2015 11.30 am
GL News Service will be hosting a Google Hangout to discuss the need to achieve gender equality in and through the media and how GL is pushing the envelope by conducting baseline research on the representation of people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in the media across three regions of Africa. Follow us onFacebookand visitour websiteto get the details.
Alliance Demands
Alliance Post-2015 Demands
Conduct a thorough and honest review of the last seven years, and use this to reposition for 2030.
Ensure that all gender provisions of the SDG’s are incorporated.
Go further than the SDGs on gender, media and ICTs.
Strengthen the sustainable development provisions of the SADC Gender Protocol.
Strengthen the rights-based language in the SADC Gender Protocol.
Remove contradictions and anomalies around custom, tradition and religion.
Adopt an implementation framework with strong gender disaggregated indicators.
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