{"id":6437,"date":"2019-11-25T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.whomakesthenews.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/25\/16days-media-role-in-ending-gender-based-violence\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T23:25:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T04:25:13","slug":"16days-media-role-in-ending-gender-based-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/16days-media-role-in-ending-gender-based-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"16Days: Media role in ending gender-based violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/who-makes-the-news\/Images\/Articles\/74876766_2634417219930487_5872015274898620416_n.jpg\" style=\"width: 560px; height: 213px; vertical-align: top; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-right: 20px;\" \/>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">To what extent is gender violence based on culture, family, rape, sexual assault, trafficking, and similar violations likely to be considered newsworthy enough to be featured in mainstream television, radio and print news?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) research in 2015 found that only 1 percent of news stories focussed on various forms of gender violence, a proportion that had not changed since the year 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/who-makes-the-news\/Images\/Articles\/GBVnrstories.png\" style=\"caret-color: #454545; color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; width: 250px; height: 251px; float: right; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 20px;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Across a 10-year period, there was a gradual rise in the proportion of women as sources and subjects in the stories, from 38% in 2005 to 46% in 2015.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Two-thirds of the GBV stories published in newspapers and 92% of those in radio newscasts were reported by men journalists while women reported two out of five of the stories on television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">If the news media were indeed accountable to women, more stories would clearly challenge gender stereotypes, would have women as the main protagonists and would highlight gender equality or inequality issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><em style=\"color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"><strong>Take action to shift from awareness to accountability.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #454545; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"><strong><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Lobby media and ICT organizations to adhere to national and international legislation to end violence against women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Encourage media organizations to improve gender mainstreaming training programs for content producers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">Encourage media unions and journalists\u2019 groups to adopt basic principles for the production of news on violence against women free of sexist stereotypes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #454545;\">To what extent is gender violence based on culture, family, rape, sexual assault, trafficking, and similar violations considered newsworthy enough to be featured in mainstream television, radio and print news<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,160,51],"tags":[50,68,72],"class_list":["post-6437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-article","category-news","category-whats-new","tag-article","tag-gender-and-media","tag-portrayal-of-women-in-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6437\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whomakesthenews.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}