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Reporting gender
Reporting Gender in Southern Africa: A Media Guide
published by the Southern African Research and Documentation
Centre (SARDC) and Zambia Institute of Mass Communication (ZamCom), compiled by
Barbara Lopi.
Reporting Gender in Southern Africa: a Media Guide will
help journalists and other writers, improve their skills on balanced reporting of gender
in the region. The handbook is a solid tool of information and tips for those writing
about gender issues.
It highlights that gender is not only about women’s issues
but is everyone’s concern. This should be reflected in reporting because gender cuts
across every socio-economic issue.
The handbook advises that to achieve balanced reporting on gender,
there is need to sensitise editors, particularly male editors. Mainstreaming gender news
is about incorporating the views of women, men, girls and boys in editorial coverage.
The handbook has topics that include reporting from a gender
perspective, common problems in seeking balanced gender reporting, “the dos and
don’ts” in gender reporting and a guide towards balanced gender reporting.
It has annexes containing references, sources, and contents of
main regional and international declarations such as the Convention for the Elimination of all forms of
Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), the Beijing Declaration and Platform For Action, excerpts from the Vienna
Declaration, and the draft declaration of the Know How Conference, to help journalists
develop development-oriented story ideas on gender.
The guide will go a long way in improving the quality of gender
coverage in the region and beyond.
Reporting gender
Recent publications and acquisitions
All Africa Games Update |
Landmine
Monitor: Toward a Mine Free World, published by the International Campaign to Ban
Landmines (ICBL), an initiative coordinated by a Landmine Monitor Core Group of five
organisations: Human Rights Watch; Handicap International; Kenya Coalition Against Mines;
Mines Action Canada and Norwegian People’s Aid.
Reviewed by Tinashe MadavaThis book, is the first annual report of the Landmine Monitor Core Group
and seeks to hold governments accountable for their commitments to eliminate
anti-personnel mines.
The report is an evaluation of the progress by the international
community in implementing and compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty and alleviating the
global landmine crisis.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) says it is very
difficult to obtain accurate data on the number of landmine victims and the amount of
money spent on treating them.
The Landmine Monitor Report 1999 contains information on
every country in the world with respect to landmine ban policy, use, production, transfer,
stockpiling, mine clearance, mine awareness and survivor assistance. According to the
report, Lesotho and Mauritius are believed to be the only countries unaffected by
landmines in southern Africa. |
The report explores
governments’ commitments to banning landmines in their countries. Mozambique was one
of the most heavily mined countries in the region. Since the start of a demining operation
in 1993, 60,000 mines have been removed at a cost of US$116 million, one of the highest
figures for any demining programme in the world. Although
Zimbabwe is a signatory to the Mines Ban Treaty and has vowed to stop use of
anti-personnel mines, the report castigates the country for having done little in terms of
mine awareness. It points out that there is need for a sustained mine awareness programme.
In Angola, as the country returned to civil war, both the
government and the UNITA rebels have been using anti-personnel mines and the Landmines
Monitor Report condemns them both. Angola is a signatory to the Mines Ban Treaty, but has
not ratified it.
ICBL says one of the biggest obstacles to demining was funding.
Mine awareness is also cited as a crucial part of any anti-mine action programme.
According to ICBL: “Mine awareness involves information programmes to reduce the
threat of landmines to affected communities.” |
| Recent publications and acquisitions |
Beyond Inequalities:
Women in Swaziland
—Hlanze, Zakhe and Mkhabela, Lolo.
-1998
Available from Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Trust (WLSA) PO Box 182, Veni,
Mbabane, Swaziland or SARDC Women in Development Southern Africa Awareness (WIDSAA)
Programme, PO Box 5690, Harare, Zimbabwe.Community
Building for Crop, Food Security, Livestock, Research and Training Sectors: Regional
Issues Papers.
— Chisvo, Munhamo et al.. -May 1999.
SADC Secretariat, P. Bag 0095, Gaborone, Botswana.
Directory for Community Based Environment Organisation
Southern Africa 1998
—Munjoma, Leonissah. -1998
Available Development Media Organisation (DMO) 11 Bishop Gaul Ave, Kopje PO Box 5725,
Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Electoral Systems Issue in South Africa
—Faure, Murray. - 1999
Available from Konrad- Adenauer - Stiftung, 31 Princess of Wales Terrace, Parktown 2193,
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa |
Gender Checklist for Free and Fair Elections: A
Handbook
—Fick, Glenda. - 1999
Available from Electoral Institute of South Africa (EISA), PO Box 740 Auckland Park 2006,
South Africa.
So this is Democracy? Report on State of the Media in Southern Africa 1998
—Galant, Raashied (compiler). -1999
Available from Media Institute Southern Africa (MISA) Private Bag 13386, Windhoek,
Namibia.
South African Electoral Laws and Regulations 1999
—Electoral Institute of South Africa (EISA). - 1999
Available from EISA.
Urban Water Demand Management in Southern Africa; the Conservation Potential
—Macy, Peter. - 1999
Available from the Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) Embassy of
Sweden, PO Box 4110, Harare, Zimbabwe. |
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