Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global Action
on Gender and the Media - Call for Participation

>Subject: Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of
>Global Action on Gender and the Media - Call for Participation
>Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:57:42 -0000
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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> >From 16th February until 8th March 2006, the
> World Association for Christian Communication
> (WACC) is organising 'Who Makes the News? Three
> Weeks of Global Action on Gender and the Media
>(http://www.whomakesthenews.org).
>
>Endorsed by both the United Nations Development
>Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the United Nations
>Educational, Scientific and Cultural
>Organisation (UNESCO), the "Who Makes the News?"
>campaign aims to promote gender equality in the
>media by challenging the news media to take
>substantial and immediate action to ensure that
>they represent women and men in a fair and balanced way.
>
>The "Who Makes the News?" campaign begins on
>16th February 2006. This is exactly one year
>since hundreds of gender and media groups in 76
>countries joined in an effort of incredible
>solidarity to monitor the representation of
>women and men in their news media as part of the
>Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2005. The
>GMMP 2005 results unfortunately show that the
>marginalisation of women in the news media is still very much a reality.
>
>The "Who Makes the News?" Campaign will end on
>8th March 2006 - International Women's Day
>(http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm).
>On this day, WACC and its partners worldwide
>join with UNESCO in offering a challenge to all
>media producing daily news to give editorial
>responsibility to women editors and journalists
>to direct the news on 8th March 2006 as a first
>step towards promoting gender equality in the media.
>(http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=18295&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html).
>
>During Who Makes the News? Three Weeks of Global
>Action on Gender and the Media, hundreds of
>gender and media activists around the world will
>organise activities using the global, regional
>and national results of GMMP 2005 to establish a
>dialogue with news media on their
>representation of women and men and to explore
>ways to ensure that women are no longer marginalised in the news media.
>
>The "Who Makes the News?" campaign is a unique
>and exciting opportunity for all those who are
>committed to the promotion of gender equality
>and communication rights to join together to
>challenge the media to fulfil their democratic
>responsibility to represent women and men in a fair and balanced way.
>
>If you would like further information about the
>"Who Makes the News?" Campaign or to receive a
>Take Action Pack in English, Spanish or French please contact at@wacc.org.uk
>
>We look forward to hearing from you!
>
>Myriam Horngren
>WACC Network and Advocacy Coordinator
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