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Summary Report: Justice4her 2.0. Strengthening Rule of Law to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

Hilversum: RNW Media (2020), 7 pp.

"Justice4Her is a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder project of RNW Media and Qianqian Law Firm that seeks to strengthen the rule of law and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) towards women migrant workers in China. The project launched in 2016 and targets women migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai and ... more

Gender and the Media in the Western Balkans

Huma Haider

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 42 pp.

"This rapid literature review explores the role that media in the Western Balkans plays in issues of gender (in)equality. The countries discussed are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia [...] While there is a body of literature that discusses a ... more

Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief and Gender Equality in the Context of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Focus on Access to Justice, Education and Health. Reflections from the 2019 Expert Consultation Process

Marie Juul Petersen

Copenhagen: Danish Institute for Human Rights (2020), 107 pp.

"Rights related to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) and gender equality are often seen to be in contradiction with one another. Underlying this (mis) perception of a normative clash between the two is very often an understanding of FoRB as a right that protects religion – and often conservativ ... more

Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol

Sara Polak, Daniel Trottier (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 266 pp.

"Various terms are in use to describe violent, bullying, demeaning, or otherwise antagonistic expressions on social media platforms. Hate speech is common, but also not limited to the online world. While it does signal that these expressions are speech acts, and therefore, as we maintain, performati ... more

Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme (FRLP): Impact Assessment Survey Report

Lagos: Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ);Free Press Unlimited (2020), 14 pp.

"Findings from the survey revealed that the Report Women FRLP has achieved its goal exceptionally. It equipped the fellows with knowledge and capability for leadership with evidence of increased visibility for the fellows as leaders in their newsrooms. It opened opportunities for personal and profes ... more

Legal Frameworks: The Nexus of Gender-Based Violence and Media

Emma Lygnerud Boberg

International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 10 pp.

"All the international and legal frameworks outlined above demonstrate concrete entry points for collaboration between women’s rights organisation and media for the elimination of gender-based violence. Media can challenge stereotypes and patriarchal structure through gender-sensitive reporting an ... more

Fighting Violence Against Women Online: A Comparative Analysis of Legal Frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

Chioma Nwaodike, Nerissa Naidoo

Internews;Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.

"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge ... more

Manual de género para periodistas y medios de comunicación

Santiago de Chile: Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas (ANMPE) (2020), 18 pp.

"Este manual, que contiene recomendaciones para impulsar la igualdad de género en el tratamiento de las noticias, ha sido creado por la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Periodistas (ANMPE), tomando como punto de partida la revisión de varios otros manuales existentes en el extranjero que abordan es ... more

Making a Feminist Internet: Movement Building in a Digital Age in Africa

Christy Zinn, Gorata Chengeta

Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2020), 58 pp.

Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets: African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet

Neema Iyer, Bonnita Nyamwire, Sandra Nabulega

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), 50 pp.

"For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalization, digital tools enable groups that are marginalized across the intersections of gender, race, sex, class, religion, ability and nationality to pr ... more

Barriers to Women Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kalmar (SE): Fojo Media Institute (2020), 59 pp.

Prix Regional Journalisme Sensible au Genre. Edition 2020

Dakar: Panos West Africa (2020), 20 pp.

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La pareja en palabras de radio

Maria del Transito Giraldo Usme, Isabel Cristina Bernal Vélez (comps.)

Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (2020), 226 pp.

"El texto está escrito a tres voces: la realizadora del programa, quien hace uso de la pregunta para ampliar y profundizar en el tema, de tal manera que se logre la conexión con las realidades del entorno; el invitado que responde las preguntas apoyado en su formación profesional, en la experienc ... more

Women Journalists in Local Media: Major Struggles and Proposals for Solutions

Dilek Içten, Yunus Erduran

Media Research Association (MEDAR) (2020), 45 pp.

"In this study, 30 women journalists from local media organizations based in various cities in Turkey described the problems they experienced in local media and the obstacles standing in the way of women who want to perform better in their career. Interviews with these journalists reveal that, in ce ... more

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Latinx Feminist Activism for the Safety of Women Journalists

Aimée Vega Montiel

In: The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication

Marnel Niles Goins; Joan Faber McAlister; Bryant Keith Alexander (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), 10 pp.

"Gender-based violence against women journalists has increased dramatically, both offline and online. These professionals face more barriers to performing their roles in safe conditions. Slow progress has been made by governments and news media industries to protect women journalists. Most of the pr ... more

Free to be Online? Girls' and Young Women's Experiences of Online Harassment

Surrey: Plan International (2020), 66 pp.

"More than half of girls surveyed, from around the world, have been harassed and abused online. One in four girls abused online feels physically unsafe as a result. Online abuse is silencing girls' voices. Girls are harassed just for being girls and it gets worse if they speak up about issues they c ... more

A Toolkit for Monitoring and Evaluation of Gender-Based Violence Programming in Restricted Environments

Women's Refugee Commission (2020), 210 pp.

Leveraging Big Data to Advance Gender Equality

Ahmed Nauraiz Rana

Washington, DC: International Finance Corporation (IFC) (2020), 7 pp.

"Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, one of the Sustainable Development Goals, is a highly complex and challenging undertaking. We must address multiple issues—discrimination, violence, education, employment, economic resources, and technology—and work across economic sectors ... more

The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga ... more

Evaluating Academic and Media Nongovernmental Organization Partnerships for Participatory Data Gathering

Emma Heywood, Beatrice Ivey, Sacha Meuter

International Journal of Market Research, volume 63, issue 1 (2020), pp. 43-57

"This article discusses participatory methods for data gathering in the context of a partnership between a Swiss-based media development organization, Fondation Hirondelle, and a research team at the University of Sheffield. In 2018–2019, the partnership conducted fieldwork which focused on the im ... more