Eastern African Media - more focus on gender issues
ETHIOPIA: Media will not grow unless they give serious attention to gender issues, said secretary general of Eastern African Journalists Association, Omar Faruk on the first regional conference on gender held late last month at the Sudanese Journalist's Union (SJU) in Khartoum.
On the conference held from 27 - 29 October, 2008, a study by the East African Journalist's Association (EAJA) equal reporting by the media in Eastern Africa was presented and discussed over by participants. It focused on the concepts of sex and gender, gender equality, and mainstreaming in East African countries namely Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somali, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
