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Women, ICT and Emergency Telecommunications: Opportunities and Constraints

Geneva: ITU (2020), x, 80 pp.

"In the 1991 cyclones that hit Bangladesh, 90 per cent of the 140 000 victims were women. In the deadly heat waves that hit France in 2003, most fatalities were elderly women. During the 2005 Hurricane Katrina emergency in New Orleans, most of the victims were Afro-American women and their children. ... more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Glossary from a to Z

Paris: FIDH - International Federation for Human Rights (2020), 213 pp.

"Based on our engagement with multiple stakeholders involved in the movement to eliminate sexual and gender-based violence, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) decided to develop this Glossary to identify and clarify key definitions that practitioners should, at a minimum, be well a ... more

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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

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Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
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Silvia Chocarro, Sarah Clarke, Paulina Gutiérrez, Judy Taing

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2020), 231 pp.

"Online harassment and abuse against women journalists has become a major hazard to the profession. One that threatens women journalists’ ability to do their jobs. It violates their right to freedom of expression as much as it hampers free and open access to information for all members of society. ... more

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

Christy Zinn, Gorata Chengeta

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

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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

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Barriers to Women Journalists in Sub-Saharan Africa

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

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Prix Regional Journalisme Sensible au Genre. Edition 2020

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

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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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The Portrayal of Victims of Intimate Femicide in the South African Media

Amanda Spies

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 41-59

"This article reflects on the murders of Reeva Steenkamp (2013), Jayde Panayiotou (2015), Susan Rhode (2016) and Karabo Mokoena (2017) and questions how victims of intimate femicide are portrayed in the South African media. Media reporting on intimate femicide clearly illustrates how the murder of w ... more

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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

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

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

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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

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide Key Guidance

Safety of Female Journalists Online: A #SOFJO Resource Guide
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