ABU Matters
ABU co-leads the Global Movement for Gender Equality through Media
Media and ICTs are glaringly missing from the Sustainable Development Goals 2015 to 2030. Gender and the media are totally invisible in the SDGs. This flies in the face of the facts.
GAMAG wants to change that. The Alliance is demanding that the Sustainable Development Goals (the successor of the Millennium Development Goals) should include a goal on media and ICTs and their gender dimensions; a stand- alone target on gender and the media under Goal Five - gender equality; and that the indicators on freedom of expression in Goal 16 include gender indicators.
T
he long-term commitment of ABU to gender equality in media received international recognition when ABU was elected as a Vice-Chair of the International
Steering Committee.
At its first meeting in Geneva in December 2014, the Executive Body of the new global alliance of organisations involved in the media declared that it is time for greater action on gender equality.
GAMAG immediately put this declaration into action with side-event at the 59th session of the Commission on the Status in New York 11-18 March 2015, which conducted a 20-year review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
The GAMAG side-event “Women and the Media: Advancing Critical Area of Concern J* of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action” was hosted by UNESCO and UN WOMEN, in collaboration with the Nordic Council of Ministers.
2015 International Women’s Day
E
very 8 March, UNESCO runs a campaign - Women Make the News. For one day in the year, the media is called upon to allow women to plan, produce, and
market the news from a woman’s perspective. The UNESCO Women Make the News 2015: Beyond International Women’s Day went a step further.
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BDPA) UNESCO joined forces with the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) and launched the Women Make the News 2015 under the theme, “Yes we must! Reaching Gender Equality in the Media by 2030”.
42 ABU News
The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, a Vice-Chair of the International Steering Committee of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender, has released a video in support of Women Make the News 2015. In the video Dr Javad Mottaghi, Secretary-General of the ABU calls on the Union’s members to make gender equality in their organisations a fact. (For viewing the video visit
www.abu.org.my). The ABU Secretary- General reaffirmed the ABU commitment: “As a leading international media association in the world, ABU pledges its continuing support for the Women Make the News 2015 initiative and reconfirmed the ABU endeavours to be part of changing the world and allow all – women and men to realize their potential and achieve their dreams”.
ABU also introduced a list of activities for achieving gender equality in the workplace and invited members to adapt and implement these activities.
The ABU Secretary-General Dr Javad Mottaghi said that, as a Vice-Chair of GAMAG, the Union had helped to set the agenda for practical action to make the alliance a strong voice in achieving gender equality in and through the media.
“GAMAG’s unique strength is in bringing together researchers, advocacy groups and media organisations,” he said. “It will be able to translate the excellent research generated by some members into specific gender-fair policies and programming.”
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