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Issue 13 - A Tool for Change: Global Media Monitoring Project
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A Tool for Change: Global Media Monitoring Project. From 7th – 10th May, in Cape Town, fourteen men and women from around the world came together to discuss the launch of a project which has been described as ‘one of the most extraordinary collective enterprises yet organised within the global women’s movement’ – the Global Media Monitoring Project, or GMMP as it has come to be known.

GMMP was first conducted in 1995 after the idea for a worldwide day of media monitoring of the portrayal and representation of women was developed at the WACC conference ‘Women Empowering Communication in Bangkok in 1994.

 



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From 7th – 10th May, in Cape Town, fourteen men and women from around the world came together to discuss the launch of a project which has been described as ‘one of the most extraordinary collective enterprises yet organised within the global women’s movement’ – the Global Media Monitoring Project, or GMMP as it has come to be known.

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'Shakti': Radio as Inspiration Print E-mail

“Last Thursday, the Supreme Court gave a verdict for a legal amendment to be instituted in order to recognise that forced sexual relations between a husband with his wife should also be considered as rape (marital rape) and punished. The court also ordered that rape of a commercial sex worker should be punished in the same way as the rape of any other women. These aspects of the Supreme Court verdict are both revolutionary and controversial in the socio-cultural context of our country. Let's have a discussion with the renowned advocate Ms. Mira Dhungana on this topic. She is also the advocate who initially registered the writ complaint to put this decision before the Supreme Court. Welcome Mira to our program”

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