SETTING THE GENDER AGENDA FOR COMMUNICATION POLICY

A Feminist Perspective on Gender, Media and Communication Rights in Digital Times

Anita Gurumurthy, Amrita Vasudevan and Nandini Chami

In 2005, the UN convened the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The resulting WSIS Tunis commitment acknowledged that ‘the full participation of women in the Information Society is necessary to ensure the inclusiveness and respect for human rights within the Information Society, (encouraging) all stakeholders to support women’s participation in decision-making processes and to contribute to shaping all spheres of the Information Society at international, regional and national levels.’