Launched annually on the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), Women Make the News (WMN) is a global initiative aimed at promoting gender equality in the media. The theme for this year’s - "Media and Information Literacy (MIL) and Gender” – seeks to highlight good practices in this area and emphasize the importance of fostering media and information literate societies as a way to improve the understanding of women and men about gender perspectives in media and information systems.
For many years, stakeholders globally have focused on the supply side of media development to address issues surrounding gender equality and women’s empowerment. While we should continue to call upon media and information systems to fulfill their democratic responsibility to represent women and men in a fair and balanced way, we also have the unique opportunity to engage the demand side of media – citizens – in this process. MIL is necessary for peoples, as users of media and i ... Читать дальше »