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
• The New York Declaration (2017)

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

• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 

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

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

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

• 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

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

• Gender and Media – A holistic agenda (2018)