Women's Representation in Media

Share your stories this International Women’s Day. Take Back The Tech invites you to listen, speak, recognise and remember.

To effect change, we need to understand the reality of violence against women.

The prevalence of violence against women means that chances are, all of us have encountered it in some way or another in our lives. Whether it’s our own personal experience, someone we know, a story we heard, or something we read.

Partagez vos histoires lors de cette journée internationale de la femme.

La campagne réapproprie-toi la technologie vous invite à écouter, parler, reconnaître et se souvenir.

Pour effectuer le changement, nous avons besoin de comprendre la réalité de la violence à l’égard des femmes.

Comparte tus experiencias y relatos en este día internacional de las mujeres. Dominemos la tecnología te invita a escuchar, hablar, reconocerte y recordar.

Para lograr un cambio necesitamos entender la realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres.

La contundente realidad de la violencia hacia las mujeres hace que todas nosotras la hayamos encontrado o experimentado en algún momento de nuestras vidas, ya sea a través de nuestra propia experiencia, la de alguien que conocemos o de algo que escuchamos o leímos.

Al igual que en América Latina y el Caribe, en México se vive un clima generalizado de violencia contra el género femenino, donde seis de cada diez mujeres son víctimas de algún tipo de violencia física, sexual, económica, psicológica, o verbal.

Violence against women was the theme of a recent digital storytelling workshop organised by APC-Africa-Women and Women’sNet, held in Durban, South Africa from 25 to 29 August 2007. APC-Africa-Women is the African regional programme of the Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP), an international network of women who support women’s networking for social change and women’s empowerment through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

Kristin Palitza of Agenda Magazine was the chair of a discussion panel on gender and the media today, September 11 2007, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Unlike most of the other panels at Highway Africa, this one lined up three women and no man. A mistake, by some participants’ standards but certainly a colourful and rather critical one in an event where only 15 out of 55 speakers are women.

The issue of content production and representativeness is important within African news production. In her presentation at the 2007 Digital Citizen Indaba conference in Grahamstown on Sunday, the chairperson of LinuxChix in South Africa, Anna Badimo, highlighted the need for new approaches in African news production. APC Africa-Women co-coordinator Sylvie Niombo explained that content in the mainstream media ignores lived realities of women.

Media and ICT Caucus, APNGO Forum] - The Media and ICT Caucus wish to state from the outset our reaffirmation of the commitments of the BPFA and the Cairo Programme of Action, and their Plus 5 documents.