News - MMA in the Media
- Women remain significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in news media coverage
Women are still significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in news media coverage, according to Global Media Monitoring Project research in 108 countries.
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- Media must condemn abuse
Sunday World issues apology in response to MMA’s concerns about the reporting of gender based violence
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- Move to outlaw cellphone, net porn ‘a step backwards’
DEPUTY Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba plans to submit regulations banning pornography on the internet and cellphones to the Law Reform Commission, together with other recommendations aimed at preventing access to pornography.
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- MEDIA: The Untold Stories of Violence Against Women
ROME, Nov 26 (IPS) - “You don’t need to go far, it is all around us,” said Robert Dijksterhuis, head of the gender division in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to a room mostly full of women. “Up to one in three women around the world has been abused in some way - most often by someone she knows,” he added, quoting UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) numbers.
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- Media ‘neglecting plight of women’
South African media are contributing to the disempowerment of women, despite the fact that issues involving gender equality, women’s poverty and health are of primary importance to the country’s agenda, according to research by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), which was released last week.
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