News – GAMAG

Gender and news: The 30-year journey

On 9 December 2025, GAMAG co-hosted the launch of the Global Media Monitoring Project’s report “Progress on a Plateau”. The report is the seventh in the series since the first one in 1995. It contributes to assessment of progress in the implementation of the “Women and the Media” theme in the Platform for Action for the Advancement of Women adopted at the Fourth UN World Conference on Women in Beijing 30 years ago.

The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the largest and longest-running research and advocacy initiative for gender equality in and through the news media. The research is held once every five years, documenting change in women’s participation in the news in comparison to men, as subjects, sources, and reporters in the world’s news media.

The new report urges reflection and innovation to develop bold, radical strategies, able to break through a stubborn inertia in progress towards gender equality that has persisted since 2010. Explore the global data and the regional and national reports here.

Safeguarding Women’s Communication Rights

Binding frameworks and renewed action are needed to advance gender justice in and through the media 30 years after United Nations member states adopted the Beijing Platform for Action, concluded a parallel event co-organized by GAMAG and WACC Global at the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

The event “Section J @ Beijing+30: Safeguarding Women’s Communication & Digital Rights” took stock of progress – or the lack thereof – in the “Women and the Media” area of the Beijing Platform as part of the CSW69 review of the landmark roadmap to advance women’s rights worldwide.

EJES DEL DEBATE PARA LA REGULACIÓN DE LA VIOLENCIA…

EJES DEL DEBATE PARA LA REGULACIÓN DE LA VIOLENCIA SOCIODIGITAL

Aportes sobre el proyecto de Ley Modelo Interamericana para prevenir, sancionar y erradicar la violencia de género contra las mujeres facilitada por las tecnologías.

Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) y Laboratorio Feminista de Derechos Digitales (LFDD)

La violencia sociodigital es una de las modalidades de la violencia contra las mujeres que más atención ha recibido en los años recientes, debido a sus graves efectos en la integridad, dignidad y el daño psicológico, sexual, físico, económico y patrimonial de millones de mujeres y niñas en el mundo.

GAMAG contributes to Inter-American Model Law to address online…

GAMAG contributes to Inter-American Model Law to address online violence against women

Sociodigital violence against women, also referred to as “Technology-facilitated gender-based violence” is rising, facilitated by digital technologies. The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) and the Feminist Laboratory of Digital Rights contributed to the Organization of American States’ project to design an inter-American model law to prevent, punish and eradicate online violence against women.

Beijing +30: Upholding commitments on “Women and the Media”

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Beijing +30: Upholding Commitments in Section J on “Women and the Media”

Global Alliance on Media & Gender (GAMAG), March 3, 2025. Communication rights – particularly those of women and marginalized groups – are under severe threat world wide.

This year, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Platform for Action. Section J of this landmark gender policy blueprint enshrined commitments to increase women’s participation in media decision-making, promote balanced and non-stereotypical portrayals of women, and ensure women’s access to and use of communication technologies.

Commitments made in Beijing are under attack. One driver is the rise of far-right governments and conservative movements across the globe, offline and online. A second is the increasing hostility towards gender equality evident in statements and actions by the current political administration in the United States of America. Nation states, the private sector and other entities are backpedaling on promises to advance and uphold women’s rights and gender equality. Action to address the escalating threats is urgently required.