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Gender justice is an urgent concern. Millions of women throughout the world are deprived of their fundamental human rights for no other reason than that they are female. And as an intrinsic part of this scenario, there is still a long way to go before gender equality in media is achieved. The articles in this issue of Media Development explore how gender activists are tackling questions of power and control, definitions and values, access and exclusion in relation to communications and the mass media.
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Milja Radovic
The image of women in Serbian media during the Milosevic and post-Milosevic era is discussed in the following article. It includes the notorious role of TV Pink and its cultural impact on society in the 1990s, on print media dealing with problems such as trafficking, and the transition period, changes and challenges.
Anna Turley
2005 is a crucial year for issues of development, social justice and gender equality. As this issue of Media Development goes to print, the world’s most powerful leaders are meeting at the G8 summit in Scotland to discuss aid, trade and debt relief for the world’s poorest nations. In March of this year, the Commission on the Status of Women Beijing +10 review took place in New York. In September, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will be reviewed at a UN high-level plenary meeting and in November, the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) will take place in Tunis.
Susan de Villiers
The realisation of human rights requires that people understand what their rights are, and that they have the capacity to use them for their own benefit. This means that human rights education must be a dynamic and interactive process, aimed at educating, equipping and empowering people to use their human rights to improve their lives.
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