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Definitions
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49 out of 54 African countries have signed this Protocol while 37 of these have ratified it. The Protocol calls State Parties to combat all forms of discrimination against women and to “take all appropriate measures to eliminate stereotypes in textbooks, syllabuses and the media that perpetuate such discrimination”.
What is the Maputo Protocol? (Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa)
100
Conducted every 5 years since 1995, this project found that the pace of change towards gender equality in news media content is painstakingly slow. In 2015, this project discovered that only 24% of the people in the news are women, the exact statistic it had found in 2010.
What is the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)?
100
This is the act of attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials, legislators or regulatory agencies.
What is lobbying?
100
Girls and women make up this percentage of the world's population.
What is 50%?
100
This is an oversimplified generalization of the roles, characterization or attributes of an entire group on the basis of gender. It is pervasive in media content and does not represent reality.
What is Gender Stereotype?
200
Adopted in 1995, this document includes 'Women and the Media" as one of 12 critical areas for action to advance gender equality and women's rights. It calls governments, media, NGOs and the private sector to take measures to increase the participation and access of women in the media.
What is the Beijing Platform for Action?
200
This British-Iranian journalist has reported on major crises around the world, including Iraq, Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, Somalia and Rwanda. She gained a reputation for being fearless during the Gulf and Bosnian wars and for reporting from conflict areas. She is currently the Chief International Correspondent for CNN, host of a CNN International nightly interview program and a Global Affairs Anchor of ABC News.
Who is Christiane Amanpour?
200
This is a set of principles and guidelines established by decision-makers or management to direct and set boundaries for actions taken to achieve goals.
What is Policy?
200
This goal in the 2030 Agenda for Development (SDGs) targets gender equality and empowerment of women and girls. It features one target specific to media, namely "To enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women”.
What is Goal 5?
200
This is the view that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender.
What is gender equality?
300
The United States and Canada are the only 2 countries out of 34 that have neither signed nor ratified this regional treaty. It declares that every woman has the right to be free from violence in both the public and private spheres. It binds States Parties to condemn all forms of violence against women and agree to pursue policies to prevent, punish and eradicate such violence.
What is the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women?
300
This is the group of nations comprised of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. It is the body that created the ‘Guiding Principles for Capacity Building of Women and Girls: Towards Sustainable, Inclusive and Equitable Growth and Peace’
What is the G7?
300
These are the rules governing professional journalism and include principles such as fair portrayal, balance and accuracy in the practice of journalism.
What are journalistic / media ethics?
300
This is the proportion of people in the news who are women as found by the Global Media Monitoring Project - the world's largest and longest running research and advocacy initiative for gender equality in and through the media. This number remained static between 2010 and 2015, after the slow but steady 3 point increase between 2000 and 2005, and the second 3 point increase between 2005 and 2010.
What is 24%?
300
This 'ism' refers to prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination, typically against women, on the basis of sex.
What is sexism?
400
Adopted in 2015, this international development framework replaced the Millennium Development Goals (MDG). It contains a set of seventeen aspirational "Global Goals" with 169 targets between them.
What are the SDGs? (Agenda 2030)
400
Adopted by the UN in 1979, this is one of the 9 core international human rights instruments that attempts to comprehensively address women’s rights. In Article 5 it calls States Parties to take all appropriate measures “to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women.”
What is CEDAW? Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
400
This is an easy and often applied strategy to voice opinions about specific issues through letters. It uses the power of writing to create public awareness and to reach out to policy makers, media editors and others with the power to act on an issue.
What is Letter-writing campaign?
400
This is the percentage of top management positions held by women in news media organisations, according to the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media following research in over 500 companies in 59 countries in 2011.
What is 27%?
400
This term refers to the unofficially acknowledged barrier to advancement in a profession, especially affecting women and members of minorities. U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton hoped to shatter it by winning the election in 2016.
What is Glass Ceiling?
500
Released on behalf of ASEAN Members Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, this regional convention includes a declaration against harmful practices which perpetuate gender stereotypes. It calls for the development of “effective strategies to eliminate harmful practices which perpetuate gender stereotyping, violence against women and violence against children”.
What is the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women and Elimination of Violence against Children?
500
This global intergovernmental body is dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. It convenes a two-week session in March each year in New York for representatives of UN Member States, civil society organizations and UN entities to discuss progress in the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action for the Advancement of Women, and emerging gender equality and women's empowerment issues.
What is the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)?
500
These are basic and intangible human rights that claim spaces and resources in the public sphere for everyone to be able to engage in transparent, informed and democratic debate, irrespective of gender, sexuality, race, religion, ability and all other axes of difference. They claim unfettered access to the information and knowledge essential to democracy, empowerment, responsible citizenship, and mutual accountability.
What are Communication Rights?
500
This is the world average percentage of stories reported by women in mainstream news media, as found by the Global Media Monitoring Project - the largest and longest running research and advocacy initiative for gender equality in and through the media. This statistic has remained static since 2000. It is the exact number found by the research in 76 countries in 2005, in 109 countries in 2010 and in 114 countries in 2015, .
What is 37%?
500
This is the act or process of advocating or supporting a cause or proposal. It seeks to bring about change through strategies such as campaigning, lobbying, research and alliance-building intended to influence decision-makers and policies. It is a core element of the "End News Media Sexism by 2020" campaign.
What is Advocacy?
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