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- Teenage pregnancy is more than a teenage issue, the M&G reveals
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Rates of teenage pregnancy in South Africa are among the highest in the world, yet the reasons for this problem are often misunderstood and riddled with myths and stereotypes about teenage girls. However, the Mail & Guardian, health section (04/10/2011, p1) article ‘Teenage moms learn the hard way’ by Katherine Child points to deep underlying social problems. The article reveals that teenage pregnancy results from a complex set of varied and interrelated factors, largely associated with the social conditions under which children grow up. The article also unearths and debunks myths surrounding contraceptives and child grants being blamed for high rates of teenage pregnancy in South Africa. For these and other reasons discussed below, the article deserves a Glad1.
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- A Tangled Web: Human Trafficking, Child Protection & the Media
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As a metaphor, a web does nicely to describe human trafficking: a thing with many threads, sticky, dangerous, and unseen by victims. The sticky threads each different yet inseparable, certainly not linear, clean, neat and easily spotted…well unless you’re the spider that is.
What do we know about human trafficking? What should we know about it? What are we being told by the media? What is the media missing?
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- Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media
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Media Monitoring Africa launched a new set of Editorial Guidelines and Principles on Reporting on Children in the Media on 19 October 2011 which also saw the commemoration of Black Wednesday and the 15th birthday celebrations for the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF).
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- Gender: An Election Issue? Election Accountability Pack
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51% of the population is female
40-50% of women have experienced violence at the hands of a partner
None of the local election manifestos touch on gender-based violence specifically.Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), GenderMattersZA, Open Society Foundation, The Daily Maverick and Frayintermedia have teamed up with the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) and Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre to launch a “Piercing the Promises: Election Accountability Pack” on gender issues.
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- The right to express but not racially stereotype
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Media Monitoring Africa condemns Sunday World demeaning ‘coloured woman’ and display sexism
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- Dismal reporting on “back to school”
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Sowetan’s “back to school” coverage identified under-age drinkers and girls accused of spending more time “titivating” themselves than studying, earning the newspaper its second MAD of 2011.
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- Gender Fatigue in Media Coverage of Women
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When Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) published a preliminary look into the winners and sinners in the media coverage around Women’s Day and Month, a more comprehensive analysis of print articles and television reports from that period was also promised. Here it is!
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- The Sunday Times dedicates an edition to wonderful women.
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The Sunday Times dedicates its edition on the 23rd of May 2010 to both powerful and ordinary women doing great work for the economy and in their communities.
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- Saturday Star’s readers informed about trafficking
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The article published by Saturday Star, “2010 spurs human trafficking fear” (03/04/2010 p. 8) is one to be glad about. This article exposed common locations of human trafficking in South Africa and how children will be affected by this crime. It also explained human trafficking and its implications to the reader.
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- City Press features female prisoners’ children
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“Liberating babies from jail”, City Press (25/04/2010, p. 27) is one to be glad about. This article, written by Chris Makhaye took a positive angle on children who live with their mothers in prison and how they should be liberated, as the headline suggests.
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