Geneva, 4-5 November 2014
Further the UNESCO Global Forum on Media and Gender, held in Bangkok from 2 to 4 December 2013, COPEAM has been elected as a member of the International Steering Committee (ISC) of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG). The Alliance was created on that occasion with the aim of achieving gender equality in media systems, both at structures and contents levels.
The first ISC meeting will be held in Geneva on 4-5 November. This event is an opportunity for the members organizations to debate on the GAMAG Framework and Action Plan and prepare a realistic work plan for the next two years; to agree on inputs in view of the fifty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and of the review of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing +20) in March 2015; finally, to identify existing national, regional and international gender and media initiatives that could be enhanced through GAMAG.