Gender, media coverage and ethics
This post is by Melda Türkkanlar. Like parents and school, media has a crucial role in children’s development. In this era of globalization, where accessing information and communications has become much easier, children are easily able to watch television, listen to the radio, read magazines and access the Internet whenever and wherever they want. Basically [...]
Q&A with Writer Hugo Schwyzer
Hugo Schwyzer is a writer, activist and professor who regularly covers issues of gender, sexuality and rights. He’s taught history and gender studies at Pasadena City College in California since 1993, where he developed the college’s first courses on Men and Masculinity and Beauty and Body Image. He serves as co-director of the Perfectly Unperfected Project, a campaign to transform [...]
Video Volunteers: Women, The Second Sex In Media
Here’s a fantastic clip from the Video Volunteers team: Description of the video: Female journalists in Bihar bemoan the fact that Media remains a male-dominated space. Varsha, our Community Correspondent in Bihar, has herself been exposed to gender violence. This made her particularly sensitive to gender discrimination, and inspired her to fight for women’s rights. [...]
Inequality On The Big Screen: No Progress In 65 Years
A new study was released this week that offers fresh numbers on just how dismal the representation of women in mainstream media can be. To real the full report, head here but we’ve included some highlights in our graphic below: The Good Men Project also ran a great piece responding to the report’s conclusions. Here’s an [...]
China Inspired By Breakthrough’s Bell Bajao! Campaign Against Domestic Violence
Our team is excited to announce that our Bell Bajao! ads have been adapted by Half the Sky Education in China as part of their own domestic violence awareness campaign. Here are the first ads to be released: For English subtitles, just click on the “CC” button on the bottom of the video.
Rock for Rights 2011 concert in Delhi
For everyone in Delhi, make sure you head to the Rock for Rights concert on November 27th! They’ve got a fantastic group of musicians and the event is for a wonderful cause. The concert brings together some of South Asia’s most explosive musical talents crossing genres and nations – from Sufi to electronic, folk to [...]
‘Give Me Sexy’ – Media Friend or Foe?
There is no doubt that the media, and its images of women, impacts girls and women of all ages. But this influence is especially dangerous when it comes to young girls who are in a continuous state of learning from others and the images they see how they should act themselves. Children are influenced by [...]
When it happened to me…
No, today was not the first time I was ever insulted by a man in public. It was the first time though I ever bumped someone’s car unintentionally and unfortunately in the last five years that I’ve been driving on the angry male dominated Delhi roads, the first time when someone made me feel sorry [...]
Breakthrough presents Khwaab- E- Seher with Hans Raj Hans
Sufi artist, Hans Raj Hans performed for Breakthrough in Lucknow and appealed everyone through ‘shayari’ to ‘ring the bell’ against domestic violence.
