El Día Internacional de la Mujer es un día para celebrar los logros en el fortalecimiento de las mujeres en todos los terrenos – lo social, lo político, lo económica y lo cultural. También es un día para reflexionar acerca de las luchas de las mujeres y las barreras estructurales que continúan impidiendo el progreso de las mujeres en formas que a menudo atentan contra los logros ya obtenidos.

Keynote speech by Joanne Sandler, UNIFEM

Presented at WACC's Congress in Cape Town, 2008.

Imagine media that promotes gender justice. We have to imagine it because it needs to proliferate at all levels: in the mainstream media, in the blogosphere, in alternative media. It needs to exist because gender justice is critical in its own right, central to the achievement of justice in general and inter-dependent with the achievement of social and economic justice.

The media has huge and largely untapped power to promote and protect gender justice. The concept of gender justice is complex, but we certainly know gender injustice when we see it. Around the world, the distortion by media of women‟s voice and women‟s lives is increasingly being recognized, but the response has been inadequate. This is an issue of accountability.

Por: Nidya Pesántez C. Grupo de Apoyo al Movimiento de Mujeres del Azuay (GAMMA) - Ecuador

En el Ecuador, la constancia del movimiento de mujeres y la movilización mundial por los derechos de las mujeres, han conseguido visibilizar a la equidad de género como un elemento sine que non para el desarrollo de los pueblos; en este marco, el país ha definido y aprobado diversas leyes y políticas públicas tendientes a construir dicha equidad.

From WACC’s Gender & Media Advocacy Training Toolkit, Module 2.

Gender biases and prejudices in the media emerge through the 'choices' media managers, advertisers, and media professionals make each day.

Media professionals' beliefs about gender to some extent undergird decisions on content, story choices, the angle to adopt and the choice of spokespeople.

Gender inequalities, biases and prejudices manifest themselves in the numerous ways in the media.

Several international and regional conventions and declarations provide a rights-based framework for gender and media advocacy, as well as a basis for the role the media should and can play in promoting women’s human rights and gender equality.

Report on a presentation by Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, FemLINKPACIFIC: Media initiatives for women, Fiji.

Made at WACC's Congresss, 2008 in Cape Town

Does access to new Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs )lead to the empowerment of women? This was the central question in research undertaken over three years in the Philippines, India, Thailand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea under the coordination of ISIS-International.

Report on a presentation by Hoda Badran, Community Media Network, Jordan

Made at WACC's Congress 2008 in Cape Town

The directory is the outcome of recommendations at a training workshop on gender and media advocacy for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The workshop was one in a series of regional training seminars organised in the context of the follow-up to the 3rd Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) held in 2005. The MENA workshop was coorganized by WACC and Community Media Network (formerly known as AmmanNet) in Jordan in December, 2006. Participants from gender and media organisations in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco and Algeria attended.

Report on a presentation by Dawnette Hinds-Furzer, Women’s Media Watch, Jamaica

Made at WACC Congress, 2008 in Cape Town

Women's Media Watch (WMW) began to advocate for a code in 1996. We started by writing letters to the editor contesting the broadcasting of content inappropriate for children at times when children primarily watched television.

Report on a presentation by Sikhonzile Ndlovu, Gender Links, South Africa

Made at WACC's Congress, 2008 in Cape Town.

The research on 'gender and advertising' in Southern Africa was conducted by Gender Links, South Africa. The purpose of the study  was to establish how advertisements in Southern Africa represent women and men by analyzing the extent to which women and men appear in adverts, the roles that women and men play in advertising, the extent to which adverts promote or challenge gender stereotyping and how audiences perceive or are affected by such adverts.

Plan de acción consensuado con todas las participantes. Quito el día 18 de julio 2008

PLAN OF ACTION

In 2008, the international campaign '16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence' began on November 25th, International Day Against Violence Against Women and ended on December 10, International Human Rights Day.

Pesquisa internacional revela que visões e vozes femininas são marginalizadas no mundo da imprensa. Elas aparecem em apenas 21% das notícias, enquanto os homens representam 83% dos especialistas consultados. Para pesquisadores, este tipo de cobertura reforça a desigualdade de gênero.

Bia Barbosa – Carta Maior

Data: 09/03/06

SÃO PAULO - A cada ano, o Dia Internacional da Mulher é um momento para contabilizar o progresso e os desafios a serem enfrentados em relação à permanente desigualdade de gênero que existe no mundo. Neste dia, a imprensa escreve sobre a presença feminina no mercado de trabalho, nos postos de direção, na política. Fala do papel da educação para romper preconceitos, enaltece a luta de mulheres que realizam triplas jornadas em seu cotidiano e denuncia a violência física da qual ainda são vítimas, dentro de suas próprias casas. Mas o que faz a imprensa no restante do ano? Como os veículos de comunicação contribuem para a igualdade de gênero ou para o reforço de preconceitos?