Media & Gender Policy Documents

The following is a selection of policy documents related to Gender and the Media that may be useful for your work and research (listed in alphabetical order):  

• The Bangkok Declaration (1994) 
• La Déclaration de Bangkok   
• Declaración de Bangkok

Adopted at the “Women Empowering Communication” Conference, February 1994, Thailand.

• The New York Declaration (2017)

Revision of The Bangkok Declaration (1994), with input from a WACC pre-Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) symposium, March 2017, New York.

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 

Adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council, 22 May 2009, Geneva.

• Section ‘J’, Women and Media
• Section J de la Plateforme d’Action de Beijing

Part of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action adopted at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, September 1995, Beijing.

• Call for a strong global gender and media agenda in the Post-2015 sustainable development goals.

Issued by the Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG). November 2014, Geneva.

• Gender and Media – A holistic agenda (2018)

Position paper by the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG).