The GMDC is a physical and virtual resource centre based in Southern Africa, with linkages in Africa and across the globe. The centre envisages media that are diverse, representative, responsive, and professional, and a citizenry, women and men, who are empowered to engage critically with their media. It facilitates the collection, connection and dissemination of information and resources relating to gender, media and diversity. The centre also collaborates on research, education and training. Read more  

What's New?
NIFEM: Call for Proposals
National development strategies and gender responsive budgets in Southern Africa
The deadline to submit proposals is 10th of July 2009. Read  the NDP  and GRB concept note, UNIFEM contract guidelines and the UNIFEM institutional assessment.

Political struggles worth it for Zimbabwean politician
Zimbabwean politician and trade unionist Lucia Matibenga has experienced discrimination and violence at the hands of male politicians from both her own political party and the ruling party. Matibenga recounts how the personal intra-party squabbles forced her to engage with the media while at the same time picking up vital political survival skills where men dominate and often resort to setting women against each other and violence to gain a political upperhand. Read more..

International Federation of Journalists (IFP) holds a conference on Ethics and Gender Equality in the Newsroom
On 30 and 31 May 2009, the International Federation of Journalists (IFP) held a conference attended by 60 journalists from 45 countries around the globe titled: Ethics and Gender~Equality in the Newsroom at the International Auditorium Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 5 1210 Bruxelles. The report is available in English, French and Spanish.

For immediate release: Sexist slurs skirt the issues
 Gender Links deplores the use of sexist slurs by all political parties for cheap political point scoring. This detracts from the main issue which is that South African women remain under-represented in all areas of politics and the economy; are subjected to a dual legal system that discriminates against them, and are subject to among the highest levels of gender violence in the world. Read more..

Call for proposals: UNIFEM
Campaign to end all forms of violence against women including women trafficking.
Development of Issues Paper on the Impact of  the financial crisis on women