Who Makes the News?

How women and men are represented in the media is a key indicator of progress towards gender equality and the fulfilment of women’s human rights. With its focus on women’s visibility and voice in the world’s news media over the past 20 years, the Global Media...

Women’s Rights and the Impact of Media

23/11/2015 International conference on Media and Women’s rights – round two A common theme from yesterday was the recurrent discussions about the patriarchal systems and how it’s counteracting the women’s rights movement and the implementation of UNSCR...

Peace on Earth

It is never as important to continue believing and holding on to faith than in times of conflict and violence, when human suffering and desperation seems to be everywhere. We have to remember that after hard times, good times will come. This is the poem of Elsa...

4 countries and 1 agenda

17/11/2015 Fourteen people are gathered at the Folke Bernadotte Academy in Sandö. Thirteen of us are women, only one is a man. Six of us were born in Sweden, three have travelled all the way from Palestine, four have come from Iraqi Kurdistan and one arrived from...