UNESCO LAUNCHES WOMEN MAKE THE NEWS 2010

St. George, March 3, 2010 -- On the occasion of International Women’s Day (8 March), UNESCO joins forces with international and regional media organisations to launch the annual Women Make the News (WMN) initiative. Under the theme, “Towards Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media: Best practices for gender perspective in media and in media content”, WMN 2010 is intended to initiate a global exchange on the importance and the need for gender sensitive indicators for media organisations.

UNESCO, together with its partners, are inviting media organisations, professional associations, journalists’ unions, women and men working in the media and civil society to share their thoughts on some priority elements they think should be considered to measure how responsive the media are to gender issues in all aspects of their operations and why you think these elements should be prioritized. Entries will contribute to inform UNESCO’s decision to support the development of gender sensitive indicators to be used by media organisations and civil society and will be featured on the ‘Women Make the News 2010” web page.
 
You can submit your contribution to UNESCO here.
 
Closing Date for Entries: 30th March 2010