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Introduction

01/11/2007

11 pages long

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This article does not have a description. This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis. For the full table of contents for this and previous issues of this journal, please visit the Gender and Development website.

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Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

01/11/2007

15 pages long

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Feminist media coverage of women in war: ‘You are our eyes and ears to the world’

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Mainstream media coverage of war often distorts or ignores women’s perspectives and experiences in armed conflict, and also their efforts to build peace. This article focuses on the work of FIRE (Feminist International Radio Endeavour/Radio Internacional Feminista), a women’s international Internet radio initiative produced by Latin American and Caribbean women in Costa Rica, which ‘uses […]

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The gendered use of the media by asylum seekers in Britain

01/11/2007

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The gendered use of the media by asylum seekers in Britain

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In the everyday lives of asylum seekers in Britain, the British and trans-national media are a key factor in the construction of identity, including national and gendered identities. The media play a role in the individual asylum seeker’s notions of where she or he belongs, and what language skills she or he can acquire. Drawing […]

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Making every voice count: a Southern Africa case study

01/11/2007

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Making every voice count: a Southern Africa case study

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The Gender and Media Baseline Study, conducted in southern Africa in 2003, revealed glaring gender disparities in the media and in its editorial content. With its goal to ‘promote gender equality in and through the media’, Gender Links (GL) has worked with a broad range of partners to try to redress these gaps through research, […]

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Anyone here been raped and speak English?’: workshops for editors and journalists on gender-based violence and sex-trafficking

01/11/2007

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Anyone here been raped and speak English?’: workshops for editors and journalists on gender-based violence and sex-trafficking

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Editors and journalists who have been trained to understand issues of gender-based violence and human rights can have a positive influence on educating public and political understanding of these issues. This article describes two workshops held recently in Senegal and Albania for male and female editors and journalists. The UNFPA workshop for journalists and editors […]

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The Missing White Girl Syndrome’: disappeared women and media activism

01/11/2007

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The Missing White Girl Syndrome’: disappeared women and media activism

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The mainstream media play a vital role in constructing certain endangered young women as valuable ‘front-page victims’, while dismissing others as disposable. In this essay, I examine the techniques that activists can use to challenge media stereotypes of ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy’ victims. Drawing on examples from the USA, central America, and Europe, I offer three […]

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Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

01/11/2007

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Images and icons: harnessing the power of the media to reduce sex-selective abortion in India

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Sex-selective abortion is an increasing problem in India. Previous awareness-raising efforts on the issue have focused largely on the act of abortion, without substantively addressing the context that creates a demand for sex selection. The BBC World Service Trust conducted a research study on how best to use the media to address the issue, and […]

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Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

01/11/2007

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Women’s pages’ in Kenya’s newspapers: implications for the country’s development

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Newspapers in Kenya are written for men, and about the affairs of men, whereas women remain invisible in relation to the serious issues of the day. But there have been efforts to cover women’s issues, and to sell newspapers to Kenyan women. These have taken the form of having separate and detached ‘women’s pages’ slotted […]

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Catching history on its wings: the experience of Pambazuka News

01/11/2006

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The authors reflect on the establishment and rapid evolution of an African electronic newsletter, Pambazuka News, an initiative rooted on the one hand in the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs), and (on the other hand) in the struggle against impoverishment and injustices. Among the main learning points are that electronic publishing is a […]

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Supporting communication for development with horizontal dialogue and a level playing field: The Communication Initiative

01/11/2006

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This article describes The Communication Initiative (The CI), a network of those using communication to foster economic and social change in communities around the world. Network members access information and collaborate with each other through any of three knowledge websites-one with a worldwide overview and focus, one with a focus on Latin America, and one […]

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