Archive for the 'Media' Category
Online pedophiles are becoming more aggressive in their pursuit of children, often using suggestive photographs or inappropriate online conversations to blackmail their victims into face-to-face meetings.
The head of the Virtual Global Taskforce into online child abuse, Jim Gamble, said police were witnessing an explosion in child pornography, driven by the ready availability of digital media [...]
Debate over this has heated up in Japan, after dozens of British lawmakers in February called on their government to halt sales of video games involving sexual violence, targeting by name the Japanese computer game “Rapelay.”
The software lets players try to rape and impregnate a virtual woman and her two daughters, who arguably look like [...]
Part of a BBC series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds.
American women push back against sexism, demanding career opportunities and access to birth control.
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 3:45pm Thursday 11th June 2009
Duration: 15 minutes
Available until: 4:02pm Thursday 18th June 2009
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ks225/America_Empire_of_Liberty_Womens_Liberation/
(google translation of an article in Le Monde)
The documentary by Lorella Zanardo and Mark Malfa Chindemi shocks the Italian public
How are the Italian women of today? What are their peculiarities? What are their needs? These are not easy questions to answer, especially if one refers to the questionable model conveyed by television and the [...]
Playboy.com began hosting a feature on the website listing and mocking conservative women they’d like to “hate-****.” And at least one supposedly liberal blog picked up on it as a “lighter side of politics” entrant because ha ha, what could be funnier. Playboy has since taken the relevant posts down (you can read them here [...]
Many prominent women have condemned several media outlets for publishing intimate photos of a female politician without her consent.
Many people are said to be able to identify the politician even though the published photos conceal her eyes and those of her man.
Assoc Prof Sodsri Phao-inchan, the dean of Chiang Mai University’s Mass Communications [...]
In recent years, Egypt has witnessed increasing participation by women in grassroots political activism. Local civil rights advocates attribute the phenomenon to novel means of communication and organisation, especially the social networking website Facebook.
“Technological advances have provided a greater scope for political participation by a new generation of young women, traditionally inclined to staying in [...]
Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner
A Belarusian journalist who is frequently detained and subjected to all-night interrogations by police, a Cameroonian radio journalist whose broadcasts on human rights and press freedom have put her life at risk and an Iranian journalist whose reports about sensitive social and political issues have led to [...]
In contrast to mainstream reporting on war in which women are portrayed all too often as victims, feminist media have contributed a different reading of what happens to women in war and the holistic approaches that women have to it. In our media work at FIRE we have turned women’s activities and actions during war [...]
Campaigners in Romania have very effectively used the media to break the public silence around the issue of domestic violence against women, and lobby for changes in laws.
Over many weeks, public interest ads featuring celebrities, both male and female, from the world of music and the electronic media, with artificial bruises and scars, have been [...]
Eight women’s groups protested outside the offices of the Times Group — the publishers of The Times of India — accusing the Mumbai Mirror newspaper, also published by the group, of sensationalising the story of a rape victim and violating her right to privacy.
A student at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai was [...]
The Association for Progressive Communications Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) has asked WLUML to forward the announcement of a call for country research partners on the issue of sexuality and the internet. The exploratory research is on how emerging debates and growing practice of regulating online content might either impede or facilitate different ways [...]
For over 25 years I have worked in Australia and overseas to prevent the sexual abuse and exploitation of children. One of the most horrendous developments that we have experienced in the last 15 years is the dramatic explosion in the global trade of child sexual abuse images on the internet.
Critics have argued that ISP [...]
From November 25 to December 10th, the Women’s International Network of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will highlight the 16 days of activism against gender violence with an Internet campaign to Denounce Gender violence in the media and transform media into a catalyst to end violence against women.
The campaign will be [...]
Late last month, when a jurist representing Turkey’s highest court in a briefing to the Justice Ministry suggested reducing Turkey’s legal marriage age for women to 14 and reducing the penalties for sexual attackers who agree to marry the woman they rape, the backlash from women’s organizations and gender equality groups was enormous.
The suggestion [...]
Journalists in Argentina are working to eliminate gender bias in their reporting.
An organization of over 100 journalists in Argentina has drawn up ten “commandments” for news coverage of gender-based crimes, which include avoiding expressions like “crime of passion” and incorporating terms like “femicide.”
The document, by the Argentine Network of Journalists for Non-Sexist Communication (PAR), has [...]
As Tzipi Livni was poised to become Israel’s next prime minister ultra-orthodox newspapers in the Jewish state were refusing to publish her picture for reasons of religious modesty.
Israeli feminists have described the ban as ‘laughably ludicrous.’
The 50-year-old foreign minister and mother of two has been hailed by some of the world’s press as [...]
A bridegroom on a popular Serbian television show brags how he slaps his bride now and then – with her mother’s approval.
The bashful bride acknowledges, while looking adoringly at her husband-to-be, that she can be lazy and disobedient and should be hit in the face from time to time.
The scene from 48-Hour Wedding, [...]
Men on the “down low” go to extreme lengths to deceive the women they marry about their sexual encounters with other men because of self-hatred and denial, a practice that puts women at risk for HIV, writes Natalie Bell in “The Down Low Effect,” an essay at On The Issues Magazine Online.
In addition, women [...]
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- Art Exhibition & Panel Discussion – Women in Conflict – 31st July and 1st August 2009
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- The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
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- 2 vacancies - Eaves - 17th and 22nd July 2009
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- Feminism in London - conference organised by London Feminist Network - 10th October 2009
- GLDVP Newsletter - July 2009
- GLDVP Stella Project advanced training for experienced workers - 6th August and 8th September 2009
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- The GLDVP response to: The Way Forward – A call for action to end violence against women
In Italy, Feminism Out, Women As Sex Symbols In
14 December 2008 in Equality, Europe, Feminism, Media, Opinion Comment, Pornography
Americans and northern Europeans visiting Italy often comment on the sheer quantity of exposed female flesh in advertising and on TV shows.
That exposure is inversely proportional to the presence of women in the labor force, in management and in politics.
Feminists place a lot of the blame for the commercial use of the female [...]