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Reporting on Violence Against Women and Girls: A Handbook for Journalists
Key Guides
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 160 pp.
"Adequate media coverage of gender-based violence should enable the public to fully appreciate and better understand the phenomenon. Calling it by its correct name, explaining its context, recalling some key figures and legal texts, talking about it sufficiently and providing useful information to f
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The Big Conversation: Handbook to Address Violence Against Women in and Through the Media
Paris: UNESCO; United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (2019), 90 pp.
"This handbook provides guidance, tools and promising practices from countries across the globe for those working with and within media. It is our intention that this handbook provides entry points for accelerating progress towards gender equality in the systems and structures of organizations. We h
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Media Guidelines on Violence Against Women
Zero Tolerance (2019), 31 pp.
Success Stories: A Selection of Media and Communication Approaches to Ending Violence Against Women in Cambodia
ABC International Development (2019), 18 pp.
"This document showcases a selection of success stories that have contributed to improving awareness of, and responses to, Violence Against Women (VAW) in Cambodia since 2012. It intends to highlight successes using media and communications investment to ending violence against women (EVAW). Here yo
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Violence Against Women in Papua New Guinea: The Representation of Women in Anti-Violence Campaigns
Aotearoa (NZ): Auckland University of Technology, Pacific Media Centre, Master Thesis (2019), x, 116 pp.
"This study examines the representation of violence against women and gender-based violence campaigns in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It explores the contexts surrounding engendered violence and strives to establish the efficacy of the United Nations violence against women campaign, Sanap Wantaim (Stand
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Guidelines for Gender and Conflict-Sensitive Reporting
UN Women (2019), 18 pp.
Silence Begets Violence: A Mass Media Experiment to Prevent Violence Against Women in Rural Uganda?
New York: Columbia University (2018), 42 + 69 pp.
"Preventing violence against women (VAW) requires witnesses to come forward, yet willingness to report is often undermined by social sanctions against those suspected of fabricating allegations. Our theory of the micro-politics of information disclosure in interdependent communities elucidates the r
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Tratamiento de la noticia de la violencia contra la mujer basada en género en los informativos de la televisión (señal abierta) y la radio peruana
Lima: Consejo Consultivo de Radio y Televisión (CONCORTV) (2018), 101 pp.
"En esta investigación se detecta que las noticias de violencia contra la mujer basada en género, emitidas en la radio y televisión, en su gran mayoría, no han sido producidas con enfoque de género, alimentan estereotipos y representaciones distorsionadas de la mujer; refuerzan mensajes violent
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Harnessing Community-Led Innovations: The Role of Participatory Media in Addressing Gender-Based Violence
Development in Practice, volume 28, issue 3 (2018), pp. 345-357
"Gender-based violence (GBV) remains a key development challenge. In Papua New Guinea, a country with one of the highest rates of GBV, the issue has been prioritised in the national development agenda. The programme Yumi Kirapim Senis (Together Creating Change) was created to support the development
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie
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Hacks de vida: Consejos prácticos para la atención a personas que enfrentan violencias de género en línea en América Latina
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2018), 52 pp.
"Al reconocer que estructural y socialmente la enunciación y la sistematización de los saberes comunes y comunitarios es contestatario y disruptivo, apelamos a la sabiduría ancestral y la infalible innovación contemporánea de las colectivas, de las mujeres tecnólogas, de las ciberfeministas y
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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone,
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Media in Process: Transformation and Democratic Transition
Milton Park; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 184 pp.
"The integration of traditionally isolated Central/ Eastern Europe into larger, worldwide trends has fundamentally changed the way we look at the media in this region. This volume proposes to address the transition of the media and communication industries in the contemporary period. The contributio
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How Does Media Influence Social Norms? A Field Experiment on the Role of Common Knowledge
New York: New York University, Department of Politics; UNESCO (2016), 28 pp.
"How does media influence beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors? We know surprisingly little about this influence and I argue that two mechanisms account for its impact. Media provides new information that persuades individuals to accept it (individual channel), but also, media informs listeners about w
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Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in the Syria Crisis: Facilitator’s Guide
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) (2016), 73 pp.
"The purpose of the training workshop in this manual is to improve the skills of media professionals and communication officers in reporting gender-based violence in humanitarian crisis settings; to enhance the quality of reporting by instilling ethical principles; and to increase awareness among th
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Adolescentes mediatizadas: Análisis de noticias sobre violencia contra las adolescentes en medios gráficos de Argentina
Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia y Género (ELA) (2016), 51 pp.
"En 2015 los medios de comunicación registraron 286 femicidios. Entre ellos, 86 de las víctimas tenían entre 19 y 30 años y 39 eran adolescentes de entre 13 y 18 años. Resulta interesante analizar la contradicción entre la hipersexualización de niñas y adolescentes en el discurso y las imág
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The Risks of Instrumentalizing the Narrative on Sexual Violence in the DRC: Neglected Needs and Unintended Consequences
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 96, issue 894 (2015), pp. 625-639
"Public understanding of humanitarian emergencies tends to focus on one story and one type of victim. Examples are manifold: amputees in Sierra Leone, victims of kidnapping in Colombia, or victims of chemical weapons in Syria. At times, the aid community, and the media in turn, seizes upon a particu
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405
"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti
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