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- Food security in Niger is a woman’s issue too
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Famine and food crises are amongst some of the critical challenges the African continent faces. The New Age article,“Hunger in Niger reaches epidemic proportions” (6/02/2012, p. 16) recognizes that it is imperative to look at food security in conjunction with the impact it has on the livelihoods of women and children. The article is one to be GLAD about because it steered against the norm of showing images of emaciated children, and instead provided a detailed and contextual analysis of the day-to-day effects that food insecurity has on people, in particular women.
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- City Press shows that there is life after botched circumcisions
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Botched circumcisions are a prevalent and worrisome issue in South Africa. The City Press gets a GLAD for not only highlighting the seriousness of this matter, but also for providing steps that can be taken by the victims to remedy their situation, in so doing offering them hope.
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- MMA Adresses Sunday Times’ Misreporting of Human Trafficking
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Sunday Times published “Women tells of ordeal as drug-mule slave” on January 15th, 2012, which told the story of a women who was essentially trafficked for the purpose of forced drug trafficking, which the piece failed to mention. MMA addressed this to the editor along with other ethical dilemma’s that MMA felt the piece presented. Sunday Times Public Editor Joe Latakgomo then wrote about in his editorial on Sunday February 12th, 2012.
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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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