View on Zencastr Soyem Osakwe is a specialist in Global communications, campaigns and advocacy. In this episode, Soyem speaks passionately about her work using effective communications strategies to raise awareness and advocate against gender-based violence. If you are a journalist or content creator, if you work for an NGO or simply want to lend your voice…
In a world where men are termed as behaving like women when they choose to remain calm amidst disagreements and women are termed as behaving like men when they react violently, one may wonder if a certain mode of reaction is specially designed for men and another for women. As children, boys are trained to…
With the rising cases of sexual assault, one Nigerian woman lawyer decided to come up with a mobile app to put this to a stop. Moved by her personal experience as well as that of her childhood best friend who was raped and compelled not to speak up for fear of stigmatization, Omowumi Ogunrotimi, a…
It’s a calm Saturday morning in Jalingo, the capital city of Taraba State, one of Nigeria’s yet-to-be harnessed states. The day is also a work-free day for members of the nation’s Youth Service Corp; a mandatory one-year national service programme for graduates of tertiary institutions in the country and diaspora. One of the newly sworn-in…
Call for Papers AWiM 2021 Conference The Future of Media in Africa: Building Resilience in a COVID19 World Conference Date: 2-3 November 2021, online Submission Deadline: 01 September 2021 African Women in Media (AWiM) welcomes submissions for the 2021 virtual conference, ‘The Future of Media in Africa: Building Resilience in a COVID19 World’. Building Resilience In this year’s virtual conference,…
Deadline: 9th April 2021 About African Women in Media (AWiM) African Women in the Media started as a Facebook group in August 2016 with the aim to positively impact the way media functions in relation to African women. Our members are African women from a diverse range of media backgrounds. AWiM held its first convening…
Deadline: 9th April 2021 About African Women in Media (AWiM) African Women in the Media started as a Facebook group in August 2016 with the aim to positively impact the way media functions in relation to African women. Our members are African women from a diverse range of media backgrounds. AWiM held its first convening…
18 December 2020 – After battling it out in the Labour Migration Reporting awards, eight journalists from across Africa walked away with $500 each at a colourful virtual ceremony held on International Migrants Day. The winners are expected to use the grant to contribute to the labour migration discourse through their reporting assignments over the…
Deadline: 18 September 2020 As part of the Investigative Journalism for Europe Fund (IJ4EU), the EJC is providing grants of up to €10,000 for teams of freelance journalists/news organisations who need additional financial support to finalise and publish cross-border investigations that are already in progress. The scheme is open to any team composition and investigations…
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…
AWiM2020 has been postponed due to COVID-19. Click here for more information!!! Call for Papers: African Women in Media 2020 Summit (AWiM2020) Reimagining Futures: Women in Media, Peace and Technologies Johannesburg, South Africa *Registration opens 28 February 2020 African Women in Media (AWiM) is pleased to bring you our fourth annual conference, which aims…
Queenter Mbori-Saina is the president of the Standard Group Women Network, in Kenya’s second-largest media house (Standard Media Group). The network came into existence when the country was still struggling with the one-third representation of women in parliament. The situation of women in positions of power in the media was not better either. In the…
