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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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- Children: an Election issue?
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How do we get answers from local election candidates and their parties on how they plan to tackle the many problems facing children in South Africa?
Here’s our Piercing the Promises: Election Accountability Tool for journalists on children’s issues
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- Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story
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Child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zinhle uncovered some interesting truths about human trafficking and the media.
In the aftermath of the World Cup hype, their documentary seeks to establish a clearer picture of human trafficking and to understand the realities around modern slavery in South Africa.
Khumo and Khotso ask if this is what we’re hearing, reading and seeing in our media, and if not, why not!
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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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- Strengthening the Press Code
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MMA made its submission at thefirst of South Africa’s Public Hearings into its reviews process. MMA wants the Press Council to address:
• Lack of knowledge both on the part of the general public
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• Challenges arising out of the self-regulatory nature of the system and the legal enforceability of the decisions
• Independence of the Press Council
• Lack of clarity in relation to financial arrangements;
• The relief available to successful complainants;
• Making the procedure more informal, speedy, cost-effective, open and transparent.
- Children’s voices heard across a number of newspapers.
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A number of articles from different newspapers share a GLAD for interviewing children from different walks of life.
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- Pregnant school girls stigmatised by The Star
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The Star’s approach to covering teenage pregnancy in a school in Limpopo gets a MAD for indirectly identifying some of the girls and for failing to explore the complexities involved.
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- City Press and Fokus highlight the dire situation facing schools in the Eastern Cape
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City Press and SABC’s Fokus get GLADs for accessing children in their exposés on the dire situation at schools in Eastern Cape.
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- January 2011: The month of multiple Children’s Rights Violations by SA Print Media
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During the week 17th - 21st there were so many articles deserving of a MAD that MMA felt compelled to write MEGA MAD - citing articles in The Citizen, Daily Sun, Mail & Guardian, The New Age, Sowetan and The Star for violating children’s rights.
This analysis has been endorsed by Childline and the Centre for Child Law
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- January 2011: The month of multiple Children’s Rights Violations by SA Print Media
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During the week 17th - 21st there were so many articles deserving of a MAD that MMA felt compelled to write MEGA MAD - citing articles in The Citizen, Daily Sun, Mail & Guardian, The New Age, Sowetan and The Star for violating children’s rights.
This analysis has been endorsed by Childline and the Centre for Child Law
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