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About
the Global Forum
From 2-4 December 2013, hundreds of leaders and decision-makers in media organisations, civil society actors, governments, UN agencies, business and human rights advocates will gather in Thailand to evaluate the trends in gender inequalities in the media and formulate collective and creative solutions to reduce gender disparities.
Forum Draft Programme: http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/gfmg_agenda.pdf
Online Forum Registration: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/online_registration_opens_for_the_global_forum_on_media_and_gender/back/18618/
The Global Forum on Media and Gender participants will consider partnerships and ideas that can:
- increase the number of female staff in media
organizations, particularly in governance and top management,
- bring balance and neutrality to the portrayal of women
and men in the media including news and current affairs.
Objectives of the
Forum
One of the key outputs of this forum will be to set up a Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMG). The purpose of the GAMG is for the media and all other stakeholder groups to stand together for real and sustainable change.
UNESCO and partners will put the spotlight on the need to reduce gender inequalities in media during the Global Forum on Gender and Media being held in Bangkok, Thailand from 2 to 3 December, 2013. The Forum will be an important follow-up to one of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, Women and the Media Diagnosis, and its strategic objectives.
Gender equality and women’s empowerment (GEwe) issues will perhaps be the development priority of the next decade or two. This topic will take marked prominence in the Post 2015 MDGs formulation. According to the report of the thematic consultation, Addressing Inequalities - Post 2015 Development Agenda, “Gender-based discrimination and the denial of the rights of women and girls, remains the single most widespread driver of inequalities in today’s world.”
In the area of media and gender, statistics indicate worrying trends in women's representation in media content, staffing and management.
In taking note of these statistics, UNESCO and partners organized this global forum as part of broader and continuing efforts to empower women and reducing gender inequalities, given the potential of both elements to advance economic and social development. The urgency of this event is reflected not just in the timing but also in the issues to be discussed and the calibre of international stakeholders being brought together to build a coalition to push for action to reduce gender inequities in the media.
On-site and remote
participation
During this global event, thousands of stakeholders, participating on-site and from remote locations, will lend their voices, intellectual capacity, collective creativity and ingenuity to the development of comprehensive linking-up of efforts to address the following issues:
- Gender-sensitive policies and strategies in media
(particularly PSBs, government-controlled media, private, and community
radios – including those online)
- Gender mainstreaming in journalism education
- Safety of women journalists online and offline
- Media and information literacy and gender
- Reporting on issues affecting women including
gender-based violence, women in conflict and post-conflict situations
- Media, legal and regulatory frameworks and national
gender polices/strategies
- Facilitate citizens’ media dialogue on gender equality
- FOE and regional and global trends: the gender
dimensions
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Call
for Interest in Global Alliance on Media and Gender
UNESCO
and partners call on all organizations working in the field of media,
journalism, communication, and gender and media to express interest in a Global
Alliance on Media and Gender.
If your organization is an NGO, CBO, association, network, training/academic institution, media organization, regulatory body (such as broadcasting commission) or media self-regulatory body, public or private entity, research institution, UN agency, funds or programme, national, regional and international development agency and your organization is involved in gender and media related activities or gender equality issues, whether online or off line, then this call is relevant to you.
This call is connected to the Global Forum on Media and Gender (GFMG) which will take place from 2 to 4 December 2013 in Thailand, Bangkok. This forum is a pioneering global event that intends to address gender equality and women’s empowerment in and through the media. A key output of the forum will be the establishment of a Global Alliance on Media and Gender which will coordinate systematic follow-up to one of the critical areas of concern of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPA), “Women and the Media Diagnosis”.
The forum will foster debate, provide training, encourage the sharing of experiences and host a high level session, which will be informed by the consensus of all stakeholders, and which will design the Global Alliance for the “Women and Media Follow-up” of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
To get involved and stand together for real change click on this link, We Agree to Stand for Change! Please complete the brief questionnaire by 30 September 2013.
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