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"Die Medien spielen eine zentrale Rolle bei der Normalisierung von Gewalt gegen Frauen und unterstützen zum Teil schädliche Einstellungen, Verhaltensweisen und Stereotypen, die diese Gewalt begünstigen. Gleichzeitig können Medienakteur*innen dabei mitwirken, das Blatt zu wenden und aktiv zum Abb ... more

Responsible Reporting on Sexual Violence: A Review of Bangladeshi Print Media Practice

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 25 pp.
"How did that impact the media's ability to tell this story? Did this period of protest have coverage that centred on survivors and the rights of women, or did the media fixate on voyeuristic representations of violence? Did the reports challenge rape myths and the culture of shame that demonstrator ... more

Between Advocacy and Outrage: A Study on Treatment of Gender Issues in Social Media in Iraq

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2021), 29 pp.
"This study was launched with the aim to deepen our understanding of how women related topics are debated in social media in Iraq. It is based on a social media monitoring exercise conducted between April 2019 and November 2020 across two topics of interest: the kidnapping of women rights’ activis ... more

Un manual urgente para la cobertura de violencia contra las mujeres y feminicidios en México

ONU Mujeres;Iniciativa Spotlight;Gobierno de México (2021), 105 pp.
"Un manual urgente para la cobertura de violencia contra las mujeres y feminicidios en México pretende ser una herramienta de apoyo para los medios de comunicación, equipos editoriales, de investigación y reporteo en los casos de violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas. Con la finalidad de cont ... more
"Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts the physical and mental health of one in three women globally, with equally high rates in rural Nepal. The risk of physical violence, stalking, harassment, and homicide between intimate partners increases when alcohol is used by the perpetrator. This study ev ... more

Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence

New Brunswick: Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL);Rutgers, State University of New Jersey (2021), 322 pp.
"Comprising 39 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into six general themes: Gendered identities; Visualizing gender; The politics of gender; Gendered contexts and strategies; Gendered violence and communication; Gendered advocacy in action These sections examine ... more

Perpetrator Cinema: Confronting Genocide in Cambodian Documentary

New York: Columbia University Press (2020), xxii, 285 pp.
"Perpetrator Cinema explores a new trend in the cinematic depiction of genocide that has emerged in Cambodian documentary in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. While past films documenting the Holocaust and genocides in Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and elsewhere have focused on collecting ... more
"This article reflects on the murders of Reeva Steenkamp (2013), Jayde Panayiotou (2015), Susan Rhode (2016) and Karabo Mokoena (2017) and questions how victims of intimate femicide are portrayed in the South African media. Media reporting on intimate femicide clearly illustrates how the murder of w ... more

Reporting on Gender-Based Violence in Humanitarian Settings: A Journalist's Handbook

UNFPA Arab States Regional Humanitarian Response Hub, 2nd ed. (2020), 35 pp.
"By not adhering to rigid standards of professionalism, journalists can unwittingly become part of the problem, causing further trauma to survivors and allowing perpetrators to evade prosecution [...] This handbook was developed to help journalists report on gender-based violence (GBV) with greater ... more

Guidelines on Responsible Representation and Reporting of Violence Against Women and Violence Against Children

UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia;UNFPA Asia Pacific Regional Office;UN Women Asia Pacific Regional Office (2020), 35 pp.
"These guidelines are meant to promote responsible, ethical and safe representation and reporting of violence against women and violence against children. These guidelines highlight many basic, sometimes common sense approaches that are all too often ignored. Real-life situations may be even more co ... more
"Justice4Her is a cross-sector, multi-stakeholder project of RNW Media and Qianqian Law Firm that seeks to strengthen the rule of law and reduce gender-based violence (GBV) towards women migrant workers in China. The project launched in 2016 and targets women migrant workers in Beijing, Shanghai and ... more

Gender and the Media in the Western Balkans

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2020), 42 pp.
"This rapid literature review explores the role that media in the Western Balkans plays in issues of gender (in)equality. The countries discussed are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia [...] While there is a body of literature that discusses a ... more
"In Lateinamerika haben Politiker wie Bolsonaro in Brasilien oder Bukele in El Salvador die Präsidentschaftswahlen nicht zuletzt durch ihre Abgrenzung vom politischen Establishment gewonnen, ungeachtet dessen, dass auch sie schon lange zu diesem von ihnen so diskreditierten Politikbetrieb gehören. ... more
"All the international and legal frameworks outlined above demonstrate concrete entry points for collaboration between women’s rights organisation and media for the elimination of gender-based violence. Media can challenge stereotypes and patriarchal structure through gender-sensitive reporting an ... more
"This document showcases a selection of success stories that have contributed to improving awareness of, and responses to, Violence Against Women (VAW) in Cambodia since 2012. It intends to highlight successes using media and communications investment to ending violence against women (EVAW). Here yo ... more