GAMAG

GAMAG General Assembly
2019-07-08 09:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Madrid) | Complutense University Madrid, Avda. de Séneca, 2 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, 28040, Spain

CSW 2018: The Holistic Gender and Media Agenda (con interpretación)
2018-03-23 10:00 - 23:15 UTC | UN Headquaters, Conference Room 12, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Organisers: UNESCO and the Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG)
Description: The panel will explore and debate the wide range of gender and communication issues hitherto omitted from past considerations of the CSW Review theme. The panelists will make the case for the centrality of communication in broader struggles for gender equality and women’s human rights, as well as for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. Issues such as gender equality in media decisionmaking positions, media policy, gender and freedom of expression and the rights of women media workers will be discussed, identifying key areas for action and practical recommendations for media and ICT companies, Member States, civil society and others. The session will explore a set of gender and media position papers prepared by GAMAG members, each proposing specific recommendations for governments, media organisations and civil society.
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CSW 2018: Fundamentalismos en América Latina: Estrategias para una comunicación feminista
2018-03-22 14:30 - 16:30 UTC | Salvation Army downstairs, 221 East 52 Street, New York, 10022, United States
Asociación Civil Comunicación Para La Igualdad (Argentina), Red PAR (Argentina), Alianza Global de Medios y Género (GAMAG) Capítulo América Latina y Articulación Feminista Marcosur

CSW 2018: Safe Journalists, Strong Democracies
2018-03-22 10:00 - 11:15 UTC | UN Headquaters, Conference Room 12, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Full title: A Dent in Democracy: how on and offline attacks on women journalists are hurting us all
Organisers: UNESCO with The Netherlands and Sweden
Description: The safety of women journalists has risen to become one of the pre-eminent issues for journalism in our digital era. During CSW, UNESCO will highlight and promote action on the safety of women journalists through a side event supported by The Netherlands and Sweden. Safe Journalists, Strong Democracies: How on and offline attacks on women journalists are hurting us all will discuss the many ways women journalists can be placed in vulnerable settings, both in the workplace, in the field and online, leaving them open to all kinds of harassment, intimidation and violence. Under the framework of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and Issue of Impunity, panelists will share their first hand experiences of these threats and the consequences these actions have on the fundamental role that the press plays in strengthening democratic societies.

CSW 2018: Focus on Section J - Taking stock, looking forward (con interpretación)
2018-03-22 08:30 - 10:30 UTC | Church Center for the United Nations, 8th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Organisers: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC), Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) network and, GAMAG.
Description: The event provides a critical update of progress on gender and media resolutions from CSW 47 and Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action, drawing from research evidence, advocacy and practical experience. Progress in closing the gender inequality gap remains extremely slow: the needle towards parity has shifted by only 7 points in two decades; gender stereotypes remain firmly lodged in media contents; growing violence against women over digital platforms impedes women’s rights online. An interactive teaching and panel discussion approach will create knowledge about persistent gaps, emerging issues and suggestions for intervention by civil society, media professionals and industry bodies.
Expected outcomes: Renewed commitment to lobby for adoption and/or implementation of gender policies for the ICT, media and communication sectors, critical for sustaining any gains on Sustainable Development Goals 5, 16, regional and national gender equality agreements.
Presenters:

Marceline Nyambala, Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK)
Sarah Macharia, Global Media Monitoring Project – WACC, Canada
Vilma Pena, Observatorio GEMA, Costa Rica

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CSW 2018. GAMAG general meeting
2018-03-21 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | UNESCO, 2 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, 10017, United States

CSW 2018: Young professionals talk gender in the media
2018-03-16 18:15 - 19:45 UTC | Church Centre for the United Nations, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Email yp@ngocsw.org to RSVP

CSW 2018: Empowerment of rural women - what can media do?
2018-03-16 08:30 - 10:00 UTC | 4W43 Building, Aqua Room., 4 W 43rd St, New York, NY, 10036, United States
Organiser: International Media Support, an NGO working with local media in countries affected by armed conflict, human insecurity and political transition.
Description: With best practices and challenges from Syria, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan and Zimbabwe, this panel will examine how media can involve women and girls in rural areas in the public debate and provide them with access to the information they need to claim their rights and make informed choices.

CSW 2018: Gender and Media - Policy dimensions and a research agenda (con interpretación)
2018-03-15 18:15 - 20:15 UTC | Salvation Army Auditorium, 221 E 52nd Street, New York, NY, 10022, United States
Organisers: Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG) and the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
Description: The panel will illustrate how the wider policy framework affects the gender equality dimensions in media and ICTs, including contents, women’s access to decision making positions, violence against women journalists online and offline, media and information literacy, freedom of expression, women media workers’ rights, women’s rights and security on digital platforms, and gender mainstreaming within the curricula of communication and journalism programs.
Expected outcome: Launch of a global-level policy-research project.
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CSW 2018: The role of the media in advancing gender equality
2018-03-15 10:30 - 12:00 UTC | Church Centre for the United Nations, 10th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Description: An inquiry into the role that media can play in social change at the grassroots, national and international levels. Come ready to explore the following questions in an interactive dialogue:
What should be the role of media in society?
How can media lift up the voices of women globally?
Organisers: Bahai International Community

CSW 2018: Liberté de communication et égalité femmes/hommes
2018-03-15 10:00 - 22:15 UTC | UN Headquaters, Conference Room 12, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Organisateurs: Réseau des Instances Africaines de Régulation de la Communication (RIARC -www.acran.org), Réseau des Instances de Régulation Méditerranéennes (RIRM- www.rirm.org), Réseau Francophone des Régulateurs des Médias (REFRAM – www.refram.org). En partenariat avec GAMAG.
Thème: La liberté d’expression et de communication représente pour les acteurs médiatiques un droit fondamental au même titre que la non-discrimination de genre. Ces deux principes, qui puisent leur fondement philosophique et portée pratique dans l’indivisibilité et l’interdépendance des Droits Humains, constituent le socle de toute avancée significative en faveur de l’égalité F/H dans et à travers les médias.
Objectifs

Questionner les concepts, approches et outils d’analyse et d’action permettant de mieux appréhender la question de l’égalité de genre, appliquée à un domaine spécifique et changeant, celui des médias.
Partager l’état de la réflexion et les expériences de terrain de régulateurs des médias, appartenant à des aires géographiques et culturelles diverses, en matière de règlementation, monitoring et accompagnement des opérateurs en vue de promouvoir la culture de l’égalité à travers les médias.

Panelistes

Olivier Schrameck, Président du Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel, France, et Président du RIRM
Gyan Kwasi Apenteng, Président de la National Media Commission, Ghana, et Président du RIARC
Abdourahamane Ousmane, Président du Conseil Supérieur de la Communication, Niger, Membre du REFRAM
Aimée Véga Montiel, IAMC, Mexique, Présidente de Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG)

Modération: Mme Amina Lemrini Elouahabi, Présidente de la Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle, Maroc.

CSW 2018: Leaving No One Behind for Planet 50/50 by 2030
2018-03-15 10:00 - 15:00 UTC | 630 Second Avenue, 630 2nd Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, United States
An inter-sectional and inter-generational conversation on what it will take to leave no rural woman or girl behind in the quest for a 50-50 planet.
12:05-13:00. Setting standards. Bridging the gap between rhetoric and reality. Respondent on minimum standards for media
Download the concept note here

CSW 2018: Core issues of the Women and Media agenda: Violence against women journalists, Gender mainstreaming in media and ICT policy and Violence against women in media and digital contents
2018-03-14 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | UN Headquaters, Conference Room 12, 405 E 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, United States
The Beijing Platform for Action (1995) and Section J, “Women and Media”, laid the foundation for a global agenda on gender and communication. Subsequently, the 47th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women in 2003 adopted this as its core theme. This was followed by an increasing series of international initiatives that have shown the holistic nature of the agenda and the need to improve gender equality in and through the media – for example, the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), launched by UNESCO and more than 500 organizations, the UNESCO UNITWIN on Gender, Media and ICTs, the UN Women Global Compact ‘Step it up for gender equality in the media’, the Council of Europe (CE) Recommendation CM/Rec(2013)1 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on gender equality and media adopted in July 2013, the Recommendation CM/Rec(2017)9 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on gender equality in the audiovisual sector, drafted by international experts from the CE member states and Mexico, and adopted in September 2017, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal number 5 on gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls.
The impetus provided by feminist scholars, activists and media workers has been significant. However, these initiatives have not been always accompanied by the coordinated action of governments or by the firm commitment of media and ICT industries to end discrimination against women. As a consequence, there has been little documented progress and, in some areas, even regression. Three areas are of particular concern: violence against women journalists, lack of gender mainstreaming in media and ICT policy, and violence against women in media and digital contents.
Evidence shows there has been a severe increase of violence against women journalists, both offline and online. This is happening in a number of countries, but mostly in conflict and post-conflict countries where the human rights of women journalists have become more precarious. On the other hand, despite the clear importance of policies to improve gender equality in media and telecommunication companies, recommendations made by the above initiatives have been disregarded. Finally, although ending violence against women and girls in media content is fundamental to the BPfA Strategic Objective J.1, instead of decreasing, sexism and misogyny in media have risen dramatically. In addition, the new digital environment has enhanced some existing problems and presents new challenges that need to be addressed – such as sex trafficking in social networks, easily accessible violent pornography, online intimidation and silencing of women, and more.
An urgent response from member states is needed, in coordination with UN agencies, universities, NGOs, regulatory bodies, unions, practitioners and media and ICT sectors. The purpose of this Side Event is to bring into CSW the debates around these three issues, and a set of guidelines that could serve as a catalyst for an international coordinated action.
Key message: As stated at the 47th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women Recommendation in 2003, States should take a lead advocacy role with respect to media and ICT and gender equality. To mark the occasion of Women and Media as the Review Theme for CSW 2018, the purpose of this Side Event promoted by the Mexican Government in partnership with the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), is to promote a review of the advances and challenges posed today by the recommendations made in 2003, and the development of an action plan for the 21st century. The aim is to open up a multistakeholder debate around three of the central issues of the agenda – violence against women journalists, gender mainstreaming in media and ICT policy and violence against women in media and digital contents – in order to devise an agreed international coordinated action to improve gender equality in and through the media and ICT.
Format and participation: The side event will bring together different stakeholders that will include Government representatives, the UN system, civil society, scholars, women’s and youth organizations and the media sector. The debate will start with a 10 minutes presentation by panelists followed by an interactive dialogue among multiple stakeholders.
Participants:

Lorena Cruz, National Institute of Women President
Aimée Vega Montiel, Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) Chair / National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Researcher
Gülser Corat, UNESCO Director of the Division for Gender Equality
Oisika Chakrabarti, UN Women
Liri Kopaçi-Di Michele, Council of Europe Head of the Equality Division
Maria Edström, Swedish Delegate to CSW / University of Gothenburg
Rosa Monteiro, Protuguese Delegate to CSW/ Vice Minister of Citinzenship and Equality

Moderator: Carolyn Byerly, Howard University Researcher
Language: English / Spanish (simultaneous translation)
This event will be streamed at UN.tv
Download the concept note and speaker bios here

CSW 2018: Violencia Contra Mujeres Periodistas
2018-03-13 16:30 - 18:30 UTC | Armenian Convention Center, Vantar Hall, 630 2nd Ave, New York, NY, United States
Red Internacional De Periodistas Con Visión De Género (RIPVG) con Comunicación e Información de la Mujer, A.C. (CIMAC), Red Nacional de Periodistas de México (RNP) y GAMAG

CSW registration deadline
2018-01-27 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
http://www.unwomen.org/en/csw/ngo-participation/registration

2018 Congress AMMPE-BBC-GAMAG Europe
2018-01-01 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
2018 Congress AMMPE-BBC-GAMAG Europe. Contact. Teresa C.

Internet Governance Forum
2017-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Internet Governance Forum. Date TBC. Contact: Anita Gurumurthy. Dates TBC

Réunion du Comité d’orientation du RIARC
2017-11-24 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Réunion du Comité d’orientation du RIARC, réseau africain, à Rabat. Amina Lemrini

Assemblée générale du RIRM
2017-11-17 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
Assemblée générale du RIRM, réseau méditerranéen, à Marseille. Jusqu’àu 17. Amina Lemrini
