FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 26 June 2025 Lagos, Nigeria Theme: Beyond Commitments: Advancing Policies for Gender-Safe Media Date: 4–5 December 2025 Location: African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia African Women in Media (AWiM) is excited to announce that Super Early Bird registration is now open for the AWiM25 Conference, the continent’s leading annual event focused…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: 25 June, 2025 On 23 May, 2025, African Women in Media (AWiM) convened a powerful Regional Awareness Session to advance the implementation of the Kigali Declaration on Eliminating Gender-Based Violence in and Through Media by 2034. The virtual gathering sponsored by the International Programme for the Development of Communication (UNESCO-IPDC) brought…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lagos, Nigeria – 4 February 2025 – The African Women in Media Conference 2024 (AWiM24) successfully hosted a pivotal workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV). The session, held on 5-6 December 2024, brought together media professionals, policymakers, and civil society stakeholders to address the increasing challenges of online…
Sexual harassment continues to rear its ugly head in the workplace, thereby becoming an issue of global concern. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines it as “a sex-based behaviour that is unwelcome and offensive to its recipient.” The Australian Human Rights Commission defines it as “an unwelcome sexual advance, unwelcome request for sexual favours or…
Happy World Photography Day!!! Since 1823 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph with a camera, the world has come a long way from there. From analogue cameras, the use of the original light-rooms and now the digital age, with our fast paced world, fast shutter-speed and now digital light-rooms, photography has truly evolved…
