September 1, 2010
IPS Asia-Pacific's Johanna Son introduces the glossary
MANILA - The need to teach students early about gender-sensitive language. Examples of how media reports pass on prejudices in some stories, and mistake gender blindness for political correctness in others. Some editors and writers’ discomfort with asking frank questions when they hear the word ‘gender’.
These are some of the topics that came up for lively discussion at the August 2010 launch of the third edition of the ‘Gender and Development Glossary’, held at the ISIS Intl conference room in Quezon City, Philippines. A mix of journalists, gender and reproductive health experts, professors and civil society advocates made sure there was a variety of opinions at the discussion around words, gender, language and media that day. More »
July 23, 2010
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July 14, 2010
Chairman, chairwoman, chairperson or chair? Housewife or homemaker? What is so controversial about contraception, the word ‘family’ or ‘sex worker’? Does being gender-sensitive in news mean hiding the genders and sexes of people who appear in them?
Whether you’re a journalist, writer, researcher or a news consumer, some gender-related words are bound to have gotten you wondering about whether, or how, to use them, or what they really mean.
The 91-page third edition of the IPS-Inter Press Service Gender and Development Glossary offers journalists and writers a guide for picking their way through the sometimes tricky terrain of gender, media and development, and the use of gender-related terms and language in media. More »
July 13, 2010
IPS Gender Wire has a presence in social media, delivering — in 140-character tweets — its brand of female-focused news from around the globe at http://www.twitter.com/TheGenderWire.
TheGenderWire posts its news articles, entries from Gender Masala blog, “In Women’s Words” podcasts and other tweets relevant to MDG3.
Recently, TheGenderWire live tweeted from the historic July 2, 2010 United Nations General Assembly meeting that formally adopted the resolution establishing its new gender entity, UN Women.
Twitter also allows the IPS Gender Wire to engage with like-minded users, groups and institutions — like @kramdas, @Wikigender and @UNIFEM — to promote and discuss issues of gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment.
July 9, 2010
From the IPS Gender Wire:MANILA, PHILIPPINES, 'Unlearning' gender stereotypes starts with young students. Credit: Kara Santos/IPS
Pioneering historian of gender and award-winning journalist Ruth Rosen recently referred to IPS Gender Wire stories as “outstanding news about women’s lives around the world”.
In each issue, she wites on Talking Points Memo, IPS Gender Wire repeats the fact that “Women do not get half the media’s attention, or an equal voice in expression - only 22 percent of the voices you hear and read in the news today are women’s, she says. In its stories IPS redresses this huge imbalance - covering emerging and frontline issues while asking an often forgotten question: What does this mean for women and girls?
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July 1, 2010
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n a dynamic collection of original articles, commentaries and interviews the latest issue of Development Volume 53 n° 2 rethinks human development through the lens of gender and empowerment.
For the online launch of the issue, Yvonne Underhill-Sem and Nejra Cengic discuss the concept of women’s empowerment, in response to Wendy Harcourt’s editorial ‘Lady Gaga meets Ban Ki Moon’.
The Editorial which has already been featured on the SID Forum with over 800 views to date, asks how the UN space can be made more relevant. It provocatively asks how to highlight the critical issues of gender and empowerment with the same success and honesty as icons of popular culture such as Lady Gaga. More »
Members of the Care2 online action community have taken up the latest IPS Gender Wire story on the slow progress towards the establishment of a new global women’s entity.
Written by Beatrice Paez from the IPS UN bureau in New York the story “Wrangling Continues over New UN Women’ Entity” highlighted the work of GEAR, the Gender Equality Reform campaign, pushing for action on the eve of a week-long meeting at the UN about gender equality and empowerment. More »
June 25, 2010
The 2010 Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) will turn the spotlight on actions and progress made to meet the global agenda on women’s issues and to mainstream a gender perspective in all sectors. The purpose is to promote practical strategies to advance women’s participation as equal partners of sustainable development, peace and security, governance and human rights.
On the occasion of the AMR (28 June – 1 July 2010) IPS will produce a special TerraViva ‘Equality and Empowerment of Women’. A printed version will be distributed in New York on Monday, June 28, and include in-depth coverage of the main issues discussed at the meeting, filed from some of the countries that will voluntarily report their progress on development goal 3 at the meeting. More »
June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010. In this Podcast:
* The International Bar Association calls for more female lawyers at the International Criminal Court.
* Ethiopia’s ruling party maintains gender quota during recent elections but gender activists cry foul.
* and a Zambian farmer and entrepreneur plants a small seed for female small holder farmers.
June 19, 2010
Shirin Ebadi. Credit: Arash Ashourinia/IPS
Women activists are at the forefront of the struggle for human rights in Iran. Again on June 12, in the one-year anniversary of the elections that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency, they took the streets to peacefully demonstrate for democracy.
Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi tells some of the moving stories of women activists who keep the demand for rights alive, despite the repressive response from the authoritative Iranian regime. 2,500 political prisoners are currently being held in Iranian prisons. An imprecise number await their fate on death rows. More »
AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: A CRITICAL MOMENT TO SUPPORT SUDAN 
THE PRIVATISATION OF LIVELIHOOD
WOMEN'S HEALTH - A SMART INVESTMENT IN TROUBLED TIMES
POOR COUNTRIES RAILROADED INTO WEAK COMPROMISE AT UN FINANCIAL SUMMIT
LET THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT DO ITS WORK
WORLD MUST KEEP UP PRESSURE ON AFGHAN LAW AGAINST WOMEN
