Africa IPS MDG3 Seminar – May 2009 

IPS Africa brought together in Johannesburg, South Africa, senior reporters and gender organisations to review the existing editorial challenges of covering current issues from a gender perspective. I was one of the presenters talking about IPS’s Gender Wire, with which IPS wants to redress the huge imbalance that exists today in media: only 22% of the voices you hear and read in the news today are women’s. Elections, health, education, armed conflicts, corruption, laws, trade, climate change, the global financial and food crises, and natural disasters. IPS covers these frontline issues asking an often forgotten question: what does it mean for women and girls?