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The GMMP helps ensure that gender issues in the press are a topic of ongoing public discussion in Puerto Rico, says coordinator Lourdes Lugo-Ortiz....

5 May 2025

The GMMP is part of the history of the struggle for women's rights and an essential tool, says France coordinator Laetitia Biscarrat....

1 May 2025

The GMMP has driven change in the media landscape in Somalia and a broader societal shift towards gender equality, says coordinator Abdiwali Gooni....

30 April 2025

The GMMP has been instrumental in highlighting ongoing issues of gender disparity in Luxembourg, says coordinator Claire Schadeck....

29 April 2025

GMMP data are essential in raising awareness and advocating for policy change, says Paraguay coordinator Julieta Gamarra....

27 April 2025

GMMP Slovakia coordinator Shaima Aly Andrassy believes the media help shape the future of women’s engagement and enhance sustainable development....

27 April 2025

The GMMP in Costa Rica is used to promote women experts and leaders in media and equitable legal frameworks, says coordinator Génesis R. Cruz....

24 April 2025

Each GMMP brings new insights into how to drive change toward greater gender equality in the media, says Pakistan coordinator Tasneem Ahmar....

24 April 2025

GMMP data in Argentina are helping transform how people look at the media and address inequality, says coordinator Marcela Gabiud....

21 April 2025

The GMMP has been used in Nigeria to train media in gender-responsive reporting says coordinator Nkem Fab-Ukozor....

21 April 2025

GMMP-driven advocacy has shaped public discourse on gender equality in media in Italy, say co-coordinators Claudia Padovani & Monia Azzalini. ...

18 April 2025

GMMP Guatemala coordinator Patricia Galicia uses its findings to address sexist news reporting on gender-based violence against women. ...

16 April 2025

The GMMP shows gender biases in the media in Portugal and provides data to advocate for change, says coordinator Rita Basílio de Simões....

16 April 2025

GMMP data have made women in the media more visible in the Dominican Republic says coordinator Solange De La Cruz Matos...

14 April 2025

The GMMP bridges a media research gap in Peru to identify problem areas and positive change says coordinator Marisol Castañeda....

10 April 2025

The GMMP has enabled collaboration between academia, media, civil society, and unions in Spain says coordinator Teresa Vera Balanza....

10 April 2025

Blessing Oladunjoye returned from CSW69 with a renewed commitment to advocate for safer digital spaces for women....

8 April 2025

Name: Hilary NicholsonGMMP Coordinator for: Jamaica & the Caribbean regionSince: 2000 (Jamaica) and 2005 (Caribbean region) Why are you a GMMP coo...

7 April 2025

The GMMP has increased concern about how women are represented in the media in Colombia says coordinator Danghelly Giovanna Zúñiga Reyes....

31 March 2025

Burkina Faso coordinator Ali Taonsa says the GMMP helps bring positive change in equality between women and men in and through the media and in everyd...

28 March 2025

The GMMP places 30 years of empirical evidence at the center of dialogue for gender-equal public policy says new project coordinator Rod Molina. ...

16 February 2025

The GMMP in Brazil has created an important space for reflection on women's human rights in and through the media says coordinator Elizângela Costa d...

14 February 2025

GMMP Bolivia coordinator Lorna Arauz Rodríguez believes it is vital to address how the media reinforce gender stereotypes...

31 January 2025

GMMP England co-coordinators Victoria Cann and Barbara Mitra aim to further data collection on women in the news to push for great gender equality ...

23 January 2025

Cirenia Celestino Ortega says the GMMP shows how media need to change and how media are agents of transformation to advance gender equality...

9 January 2025

GMMP Uganda coordinator Margaret B. Sentamu believes the GMMP provides the evidence needed to advocate for much-needed change...

7 November 2024

Soe San Htike became a GMMP coordinator to address how media in Myanmar presents women....

25 October 2024

Discover the people, organizations, and contexts behind the data as we move towards the 7th edition of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) in 2...

3 October 2024

Shahrezad Samiuddin, communication specialist with GMMP Pakistan national coordinator Uks Research Centre, participated in the 68th session of the UN...

12 April 2024

O ebook “Gênero na Mídia: o GMMP Brasil” [Kindle] surge como um desdobramento do trabalho realizado em 2020 para o Global Media Monitoring Proje...

27 October 2023

Just over three months following the decision to postpone the global monitoring day, we have made strides towards preparing for this unique GMMP.  P...

4 August 2020

Prof. Krisztina Rozgonyi and her class at the University of Vienna's Communication Department conducted a pilot test of the GMMP 2020 media monitoring...

17 July 2020

Report on violence against women journalists issued by the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Dubravka Šimono...

9 July 2020

Report on a rapid assessment study of the impact of  COVID-...

17 June 2020

A WACC partner project by <span style="caret-color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvet...

15 June 2020

Briefing paper from ACT Alliance on the gendered dimensions of C...

14 May 2020

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24 April 2020

The Global Media Monitoring Project is the p...

24 October 2019

Alabama’s major newspapers dedicate their Sunday editions to e...

22 May 2019

The #MeToo movement in Mexico’s creative and media industries.

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2 April 2019

Critical media monitoring to promote the rights of refugees to speak on their own behalf and to have their voices respectfully heard and adequately...

27 March 2019

An innovative recently released short film by the personal grooming company Gillette that seeks to challenge gender stereotypes in advertising is d...

16 January 2019

The Financial Times is taking steps to correct gender imbalance in the sources quoted in its news stories....

15 November 2018

The School of Journalism Setguulch (Mongolia) has just launched itsinitiative “For quality and equality in journalism content” dedicated tojour...

23 October 2018

European Parliament report on gender equality in the media sector in the EU (2017/2210(INI))

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2 October 2018

Weam Al Dakheel becomes the first woman to co-anchor the main evening news bulletin on Al Saudiya....

25 September 2018

The Coalition for Women in Journalism has noticed with grave concern theonline threats and harassment women journalists in Pakistan face whiledoing...

16 July 2018

The just-published BBC's gender pay gap report for 2017/2018 shows some progress has been made during the past year....

5 July 2018

Introducing Gender Equal Media Scotland (GEMScot), an initiative created to transform media in Scotland through feminist research,  journalism...

19 June 2018

GMMP Ambassador and feminist filmmaker J...

3 May 2018

Producing media content that promotes feminism, women's politics andresistance strategies to rising militarism, racism and nationalism. by BeFem fe...

23 April 2018

Trainee reporter Ambika Raja of the New Indian Express in Kozhikode, Kerala wins NWMI Fellowship...

4 April 2018

The workshop tostrengthen the capacity of media professionals from St. Lucia, Dominica,Grenada and St. Vincent & The Grenadines to integrate a...

1 February 2018

“What Gets Measured Gets Done”#WGMGD campaign aims to bridge ...

28 November 2017

Pilot study by the Myanmar Women’s Journalists Society (MWJS) on gender portrayal in Myanmar news media. Supported by the International Media Sup...

15 September 2017

Ageism in the media. A report on research on gender portrayal in German television and film....

18 July 2017

End News Media Sexism interview series. The Global Media MonitoringProject (GMMP) network partners discuss how media sexism plays outin their p...

17 July 2017

The Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women Dubravka Šimonović isseeking input on good law practices regulating violence against womenand se...

12 July 2017

The Global Media Information andLiteracy week organized by UNESCO from October 25 to November 1, 2017, will consider how “ways of learning in inf...

29 June 2017

The Indian Express newspaper's  month-long campaign featuring gender-focused news stories designed to challenge genderstereotypes and give wom...

14 June 2017

Update on project“Women in Palestinian Media” implemented byWomen and Media Development (TAM) to increase visibility ofwomen in media on issues...

5 June 2017

 Reflections by Jennifer Lee, U.S. Feminist Filmmaker and International Ambassador of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP)

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21 April 2017

Reflexiones de Nadia Ferrari: "La reunión organizada por WACC fue una experiencia nutritiva y enriquecedora de las que me llevo varias cosas pa...

12 April 2017

Jelena Visnjic's reflections on the pre-CSW conference "Gender and Media: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post 2015 Era" hosted by the World As...

7 April 2017

Reflexiones de Vilma Peña (WACC Latinoamérica y el Observatiorio GEMA de Costa Rica) sobre la consulta pre-CSW61 "Género ...

30 March 2017

Reflexiones de Sandra Lopez de GAMMA (Ecuador) sobre la consulta pre-CSW61 "Género y medios: Desafíos y oportunidades en la Era Post 2015" ...

28 March 2017
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