GAMAG at WSIS+20: Gender Equality and Inclusion in Our Digital Future
2024-05-29 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | NY
Join GAMAG, WACC and partners at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) High Level event.
Objective: To review the Global Digital Compact and to advocate for strengthening of gender equality in the global and national digital ecosystems.
Zoom registration: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2024/Home/Registration#remote
Then select the session “Gender equality and Inclusion in our Digital Future”. 29 May at 5pm CET
Panelists from WACC, GAMAG, UNAM, IT for Change, META, UNESCO and the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences (Jordan)
Context: The Internet, its technologies, the global digital architecture and all elements of local and global tech ecosystems today are still far from being inclusive and empowering for women and girls. A key question raised at the WSIS plus 10 review in 2013 was why the digital space had not lived up to expectations. At the time, new configurations of power had resulted in an information society that was exclusionary, with little place for women and with new forms of misogyny. Gender advocates at the time noted the marginalization of women from the agenda and exclusion from Internet governance processes. The concerns persist today, with further marginalization of women’s rights activists by key global stakeholders from crucial decision-making processes. Women’s rights are being eroded, in an era where a Global Digital Compact (GDC) is proposed as a roadmap for key digital principles globally, to be agreed on during the September 2024 Summit of the Future. Power asymmetries today have exacerbated discrimination and violence against women on the Internet. The 2022 Gender Digital Divide Index Report attests to a deepening of the divide. The Internet, including Artificial Intelligence, have sharpened inequality between women and men. The divide is evident in issues of Internet availability and affordability, digital literacy, participation in online news media, STEM education, online privacy, safety, security and trust, legislation, policy, practices and decision making. In recent times, misinformation, harmful content and sexist hate speech against women, increasing of sexual exploitation and other forms of technology-facilitated gender-based violence against women and girls, undermine democracy and human rights.

J is for Justice
2025-01-16 13:00 - 2025-01-17 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | NY
30 years fighting for Gender Equality in the Media
Celebrate, update and actualize Section J pertaining to the importance of achieving gender equality in and through the media (and media education)
Join us online https://unipd.zoom.us/j/84536876473#success.
For questions or clarifications, email claudia.padovani@unipd.it or lucia.rodriguez@ucl.ac.uk.

CSW: Beijing +30 review of Section J "Women & Media"
2025-03-11 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Church Centre for the United Nations, 8th Floor, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY, 10017, United States
Title: Safeguarding Women’s Communication & Digital Rights
When: March 11, 2025. 6.30-8.00 pm EST
Where: CCUN 8th Floor, 777 UN Plaza, NY. and on Zoom https://bit.ly/SectionJ_Media

Description
The Beijing Platform for Action’s Section ‘J’ called attention to the centrality of media and digital technologies for gender equality and women’s empowerment. 30 years later, indicators of change evidence a mix of snail’s pace progress on some measures, stagnation on others and regression in yet others. The parallel event is a space to evaluate the current context, to highlight areas for a gender and communication agenda and contribute to the Beijing+30 review.
The specific objectives are to:
• Review the implementation of Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action and its strategic objectives.
• Propose guidelines for an action agenda on gender and communication to promote gender equality in and through the media in the post-2030 agenda.
Organizers: WACC & GAMAG
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Women's Communication Rights in the Digital Era Conference
2025-09-18 | Lisbon, Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
A Beijing+30 event.
Organized by ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication with support of the ECREA Digital Culture and Communication Section.
· Dates: Thursday 18th & Friday 19th September 2025
· Location: Lisbon, Portugal
· Deadline for submission of papers: 31st January 2025
See conference website https://womcomrights25.fcsh.unl.pt for details.
