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Article

14 Nov 2014

Author:
Katherine V. Robinson, Gender Links (South Africa), in allAfrica

Global Alliance on Media and Gender calls for stronger protection of women's rights in media & ICT companies

"South Africa: Alliance Calls for Strong Global Agenda and Media Agenda", 6 Nov 2014

The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) has called on UN member states to include strong provisions on gender, media and information communication technologies (ICTs) in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "We cannot talk about equality, good governance, freedom of expression and sustainability when women are effectively silenced in and through the media, and where new technologies are used to undermine the human rights of women and women journalists," noted the International Steering Committee (ISC) of GAMAG-- a network of 500 media and media development, unions and civil society organisations across the globe. The GAMAG-ISC, which held its first meeting in Geneva from 4-5 November...said the right to communicate as well as access to information and ICTs is integral to sustainable development... A range of studies shows a growing gender gap in access to, and ownership of ICTs...Launched after a watershed UNESCO and ISESCO-led conference on gender and the media in Bangkok in December 2013, GAMAG seeks to harness new opportunities, and address new challenges, for gender equality and women's empowerment in and through media in an information society context which has radically transformed media architectures.