Documents/Resourses

CONFERENCE
"Gender Mainstreaming in Media – Experiences from the Region".

In the period from 4 to 5 February 2009, “United Women” Banja Luka organized the Conference with title "Gender Mainstreaming in Media – Experiences from the Region".

Introductory speakers at the Conference were women experts from Sweden, Germany, Croatia, Serbia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. There were thirty – eight (38) women and men participants at the Conference, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, media, public institutions, and women politicians and parliamentarians from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region.

Objective of the Conference was creating a space for exchange of experiences between women and men participants from the Balkan region, namely Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia, as well as two countries of the European Union – Germany and Sweden, about the topics related to integration of gender perspective in media.

Presentations from the Conference:  

Gender Mainstreaming in Media in Balkan Region and European Union Countries  

Karine Henrotte Forsberg

Former President of the Gender Equality Grouping in the Council of Europe  

Focus:  Overview of the international activities in the field of integrating gender perspective in media, overview of activities of international nongovernmental organizations, media portrayal of gender relations, examples of good practice in the countries of European Union, and recommendations for improving gender mainstreaming in media.  

Integration of Gender Perspective in Peace Journalism

Annika Flensburg

Communication and Press Officer, Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden  

Focus: Background and results of the study conducted by the Media Group of Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation from Sweden on how peace journalism and feminist theory can mutually improve each other and join forces.   

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"La Radio" – Feminist Eldoradio? About Autonomous, Feminist Radio Project from Freiburg  

Eva Gutensohn, Editor of the Feminist Radio Program „La Radio“ on Radio Dreyckland, Freiburg, Germany  

Focus: Experiences and challenges in work of feminist radio program in Germany

Membership Card no. 2 – Status of Female Journalists in Croatia

Rada Borić

Executive Director and Lecturer in the Center for Women’s Studies Zagreb, Croatia

Focus: Results of the Round Table „Women Journalists Today: What Changed Since Zagorka Times?“, organized by the Center for Women’s Studies in cooperation with Association of Journalists of Croatia, challenges of introducing gender perspective in media in Croatia.

Media Representation – Producing Femininity Image

Jelena Višnjić, Program Coordinator in “Voice of Difference”, Belgrade, Serbia        

Women in Media = Women that Make Media  

Tamara Skrozza, Journalist of Belgrade weekly magazine „Vreme“, Coordinator of Women’s Section in Media of the Independent Journalist’s Association of Serbia.

Focus: Research conducted in 2007 in Serbia about position of women that are working in media, and portrayal of women in media.