The Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) brings together over 500 organisations and networks concerned with gender equality in and through the media across the globe, under the auspices of UNESCO.
The International Steering Committee of the GAMAG met for the first time in Geneva, on 6 November 2014. As a member of this Committee, COPEAM took part in this meeting designed to set the Alliance’s priorities and Action plan:
- to pursue gender equality in media systems, structures and content by strengthening international, regional and national cooperation so to drive change globally;
- to follow-up, build on and systematically monitor implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action: ‘Women and the Media Diagnosis’, and its strategic objectives;
- to develop and sustain gender and media priorities within a broad donor, government and development agency funding framework.
In line with its priorities, GAMAG, in collaboration with UN Women, organised a media side event in the framework of the 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) to call on UN member States for the inclusion of specific and measurable global targets and indicators on media, ICTs and their gender dimensions in the post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
