The Conference “Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World” is being co-convened by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ), UN-INSTRAW, the Global Justice Center, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
The media has incredible potential to be a change agent in relation to gender equality. Considering that women are the central focus of only 10% of news stories, mass media in general does not give an accurate representation of reality or take into account the current changes in perceptions or gender norms and roles.
Within the framework of the project “Gender and remittances: Strengthening the capacities of Colombian women migrants as development agents from a human rights perspective,” UN-INSTRAW provides technical assistance to Sisma Mujer, an organization that monitors the situation of women’s human rights in Colombia.
UNESCO’s global operation to promote gender equality in the media was launched for the eighth consecutive year on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2008. Read more
The Conference “Crafting Human Security in an Insecure World” is being co-convened by the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ), UN-INSTRAW, the Global Justice Center, the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).