There are over 3.3 billion women living in the world today. Yet if you judge solely by the mainstream media you might conclude those 3.3 billion people are less intelligent, less articulate, less funny, have less to say about issues (even those directly affecting them) or perhaps only make up 5 to 30% of the population. Of course, none of that is true. What is true is that women have less opportunity to contribute to conversations, because they are less likely to own media, be asked for their opinion regardless of their qualifications, be published or be given the chance to tell their story.
At Women, Action and the Media (WAM!) we think that needs to change and we know how to make it happen. We are an independent, non-profit organization building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in the media. We are also a strong, growing community of people engaged with media, learning and sharing capacity and skills needed to build a media ecosystem that represents the diversity of our lives and stories.
Compare, and with a gender lens, the categories of What the World Wants, developed in 1997 by the World Game Institute - http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_a/interact/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/
with the Global Goals for Sustainable Development – http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ to be voted as the Post-2015 Development Agenda, and after exceedingly extensive government and UN deliberations, with some civil society and gender input.
WILL WE AS WOMEN, AS IN THE BEIJING DECLARATION & PLATFORM FOR ACTION – EVERY 5 YEARS – SEE IN THE GLOBAL POST-2015 GOALS, REAL CHANGE, REAL PROGRESS, FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITY, EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN AND GIRLS EVERYWHERE??
In fragile states, governance structures are commonly weak, ineffective, or even non-existent; and in a post-conflict setting, if women have not been involved in peace agreements, their needs are usually forgotten.
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Извор: WUNRN – 29.08.2015
Beyond Investing in Women and Girls: Mobilizing Resources
19 February 2014
This three-part compendium of research provides an in-depth analysis of the current funding trends and actors impacting women’s rights organizing, the financial status of women’s organizations around the world, and the collective impact of women’s rights organizations, when supported in a meaningful and strategic way, to build women’s collective power for change and advance women’s rights.
This report can serve as a useful point of departure for identifying and addressing research gaps related to the challenges and opportunities presented by the migration of highly skilled women. This phenomenon is of growing significance for most countries. Between 2000 and 2011, the number of tertiary-educated migrant women in OECD countries rose by 80 per cent. This increase not only corresponded to twice the growth in the number of tertiary-educated, native-born women, but also exceeded the 60 per cent increase in the number of tertiary-educated migrant men. In Africa, the average emigration rates of tertiary-educated women are considerably higher than those of tertiary-educated men (27.7% for women and 17.1% for men); this phenomenon is also seen in Latin America, where the rates are 21.1 per cent for tertiary-educated women and 17.9 per cent for tertiary-educated men. In terms of the global distribution of highly skilled migrant women, one third (34%) of tertiary-educated migrant women residing in OECD countries come from Asia – primarily the Philippines, China and India – while the four leading destination countries for tertiary-educated migrant women are Canada, Israel, the United Kingdom and the United States.
