Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence JiG

05/10/2022

Thank you for your support Amina J Mohammed
United Nations To download the digital version of 'Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence', head to our website: https://gbvjournalism.org/book/table-of-contents Photo by Krishanti Dharmaraj Cwgl Rutgers

05/06/2022

Our new guide 'Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence' is available to download now https://gbvjournalism.org/

05/05/2022

On Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day, we call on journalists to review our new short guide for covering written with the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center and a host of excellent journalists Brandi Morin, Suzette Brewer, Chantal Flores, Rana Husseini, Alice Driver, Diana Washington Valdez, and Jane Gerster. https://bit.ly/3FcCuc8

05/05/2022

https://gbvjournalism.org/

05/05/2022

"It is so important that our women and girls are humanized in the media" – Journalist Brandi Morin

Use our new reporting guide for covering written with the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center
& brilliant journalists
https://bit.ly/3FcCuc8

05/05/2022

📌 Journalist Suzette Brewer says "non-Native journalists fear covering [MMIWG]."

‼️ But the media must cover the stories of these women and girls to help bring them justice.

📰 Use the new
and JiG tip sheet and http://bit.ly/3FcCuc8

12/16/2021

The video for our Dec 6 Reporting Femicide event is now available to view on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJcVh6_6S3o
We were joined by fantastic reporters Brandi Morin, Suzette Brewster, Jane Gerster, Chantal Flores, Mallory Adamski, Rana Hussein, Alice Driver, and Diana Washington Valdez. Together, we discussed best practices and ethical reporting on femicide and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls as part of the launch of our new handbook Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Reporting on Gender-Based Violence. https://gbvjournalism.org/

JiG Gender Based Violence Handbook Online Version

12/13/2021

Today alone, globally, more than 100 women will be killed by an intimate partner or family member because they are women.

Sign our petition and call on the UN to declare December 6 International Day to End Femicide https://chng.it/fS8scdnhFx

Declare December 6 as the International Day To End Femicide

12/06/2021

How can the media better respond to the epidemic of
violence against women, and in particular, the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls?

Join us for this discussion in partnership with the
National Indigenous Women's Resource Center,
in advance of CWGL's new publication:

Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering
Gender-Based Violence.

12/03/2021

How does the media report about GBV in your region?
Let us know by sharing your thoughts via video and tagging us
in your post!

If you haven't already, check out our new website at http://gbvjournalism.org for more information!

And tune in to our next femicide reporting event Monday Dec 6 1pm EST Register here - https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-Bdufoe-QV6kt89q4UBdUw

12/03/2021

As part of the launch of our new guide Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence, we invite journalists, students, and practitioners around the world to record a short video message and tell us what you think of the guide, and share your experiences covering gender-based violence. A world without GBV is possible! We will be glad to post your video clips here. Send them to [email protected]

The full digital guide is available now https://gbvjournalism.org/

12/03/2021

We are proud to launch our new digital publication - Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence. Available online today, ahead of the print publication later this year.

Please visit the site, read our guide, and tell us what you think!

https://gbvjournalism.org/

12/03/2021

12/03/2021

Visit 16dayscampaign.org for more information on how to get involved and check out the Femicide Advocacy Guide here: https://16dayscampaign.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/2021-Femicide-Advocacy-Guide.pdf.

12/03/2021

You are cordially invited to our webinar on Monday, December 6 as part of the Global 16 Days Campaign Against Gender-Based Violence.

The campaign this year is focused on femicide. As such, JiG will be in conversation with expert journalists Brandi Morin, Alice Driver, Suzette Brewer, Mallory Adamski, Jane Gerster, Chantal Flores, Rana Husseini and Diana Washington Valdez. Join us! 10am PST 1pm EST. Register here: https://rutgers.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-Bdufoe-QV6kt89q4UBdUw

09/23/2021

🎉 2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Global 16 Days Campaign.
🙌 Join us for a special commemorative event that we are co-hosting with UNFPA @ 8:30 AM EDT on September 23, where we reflect on the Campaign's 30-year old journey.
📲 Link to RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/16DaysCampaign

06/03/2021

📣 We're Hiring! Are you a media professional, seasoned journalist & have experience covering women's issues & issues of GBV?

Apply for our Sr. Program Officer position!
‼️ Deadline extended: June 15
🧑‍💻 Email required documents to JiG ([email protected])

📌Click here for more info: https://tinyurl.com/JIGRole

04/21/2021

"We need to fight the perception that GBV has reached a crisis level because of COVID. In our view, GBV has always been a crisis."
-Cosette Thompson
Uks Research Center

04/21/2021

Just, Neutral, Biased, or Blind? Pakistani Media in Times of COVID: A Roundtable Discussion - LIVE NOW!

04/20/2021

Join us TOMORROW for a roundtable discussion called 'Just, Neutral, Biased or Blind? Pakistani Media in Times of COVID: A Gendered Focus'

📌 10 am LIVE on Facebook and Youtube! Click the links below to access the live viewing tomorrow

‼️ Join us TOMORROW @ 10am EDT for a roundtable discussion hosted by our Sr. Program Lead, Journalism initiative on GBV, Dr. Cosette Thompson. It will be streaming LIVE on Facebook & Youtube!
📌 http://Facebook.com/UksResearch
📌 http://YouTube.com/UksDigital

Journalism Initiative on Gender-Based Violence JiG

03/22/2021

“Femicide is a human rights violation and the worst form of gender-based violence in the world. It’s a human rights violation that eradicates life, liberty and pursuit of happiness and must be treated as such. The women in Atlanta were victims of femicide – a deliberate act of gender-based misogyny, intersecting with racial hatred that killed them. CWGL condemns this heinous crime and extends our profoundest sympathies to the victims’ families and communities in this terrible time.”
Krishanti Dharmaraj, CWGL Executive Director

07/28/2020

📢 Join CWGL tomorrow at 9 am EST as our Executive Director, Krishanti Dharmaraj, moderates a JiG Webinar on the New Report on Combating Violence against Women Journalists by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović.
❗️🗓️Register Now: conta.cc/39vWYgt

07/11/2020

🌎 Ensuring the safety of women journalists across the globe is critical. States should follow recommendations made in the SR on violence against women's report.
🚨 Address factors triggering violence in the world of work, such as discrimination & abuse of power relations, then create mechanisms against sexual harassment.
➡️Read the Report here: bit.ly/2AJiZLN

07/10/2020

🗣️ "Recognize 'doxing' against women journalists as a form of GBV against women and address it through relevant legal/policy measures, including the establishment of a reporting mechanism for women journalists who become victims of it."
➡️ State recommendation from SR Report | bit.ly/2AJiZLN.

07/10/2020

🔴 SR on Violence against Women's report aims to combat violence against women journalists, calling States to:
✔️Prohibit and criminalize sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence against women journalists, including threats of r**e and other forms of gender-based violence such as online or ICT-facilitated forms of violence against women journalists
✔️ encourage reporting of harassment or violence
✔️remove any statute of limitation for prosecution and provide adequate reparations and compensation for victims
👉 Read more: bit.ly/2AJiZLN

07/10/2020

Video of the killings of Black citizens by police and in racist attacks have sparked sweeping protest. But the ongoing flood of shocking videos also has other consequences, especially for communities of color. How do journalists balance urgent news value against sensationalism and trauma?

Join us for "Picturing Black Deaths," a conversation with Emily Bernard and Jelani Cobb, July 13 at 1pm EDT.

Register here: https://bit.ly/EmilyBernardJelaniCobb

07/09/2020

📢 "Bring laws, policies and practices fully into compliance with obligations and commitments under international human rights law and amend them so that they do not limit the ability of women journalists and media workers to carry out their work independently and without interference."
- Dubravka Šimonović, Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women's report to UN Human Rights Council.
⏩ bit.ly/2AJiZLN

07/09/2020

🚺 States must use a gender perspective in all initiatives to create a safe environment for free journalism.
🎙 "Ratify ILO 190 and use it jointly with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to extend protective measures to women journalists in the formal and informal sector by recognizing that the 'world of work' for a woman journalist extends beyond a traditional workplace..."
👉 Read more in the Special Rapporteur on violence against women's report http://bit.ly/2AJiZLN

07/09/2020

📰 UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Dubravka Šimonović's report to the UN Human Rights has recommendations to combat global threats against women journalists.
📢 “Apply international human rights standards on the freedom of expression and the protection of journalists, as well as women’s rights instruments related to the prohibition of discrimination and GBV against women, using the synergies between them to ensure the safety of women journalists working in independent news media..."
Read more recommendations in the report 👉https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/44/52

07/08/2020

🎙 The Office of Human Commission for Human Right & United Nation Development Program will train journalists on gender-based violence reporting, writes Nyima Sillah for The Voice Gambia.

"They are hoping that at the end of the training journalists will be able to report on SGBV cases and they will have their gender lenses when reporting and will be more sensitive towards the victims of SGBV victims and also know the languages use in SGBV reporting." - TRRC’s women affairs coordinator, Yadicone Njie Eribo.
https://bit.ly/2VWbUyG

BY: Nyima Sillah The Office of Human Commission for Human Right in collaboration with United Nation Development Program has trained journalists on sexual gender-based violence, aimed to equip trainees on effective reporting on gender-based violence. TRRC’s women affairs coordinator, Yadicone Njie ...