Examining the media coverage of violence against women in the Global South (12 December 2023)

<p dir="ltr">Violence against women is a global crisis. Inequities around class, gender, race, sexuality, disability and mental health issues are a leading factor for this violence. These inequities are more acutely felt by women in Global South, yet violence against women in this region receives minimal media coverage.</p><p dir="ltr">Our awareness and understanding of it is largely a consequence of the media. But how well does journalism do justice to the situations it reports on– and how do women from the Global South use social media, as in #metoo, to share their stories?</p><p dir="ltr">These are questions were examined by journalism academics, who contributed to two recent edited book collections, led by Dr Andrea Baker (Monash University). The books are:</p><p dir="ltr">Baker, Andrea & Manchanda Rodrigues, Usha., eds. (2022). <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Reporting-on-Sexual-Violence-in-the-MeToo-Era/Baker-ManchandaRodrigues/p/book/9781032115511" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Reporting about sexual violence in the #MeToo era</a>, Routledge.</p><p dir="ltr">Baker, Andrea.; González de Bustamante, Celeste. & Relly, Jeannine. (eds.) (2023). <a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-30911-3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Violence Against Women in the Global South: Reporting in the #MeToo era </a>, Palgrave/Springer.</p><p dir="ltr">By Global South countries we look at India, Indonesia, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Syria, Libya, Yemen and Egypt.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Panel Chair:</b> Professor Jacquie True, head of the Monash Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>J</b><b>ournalism academics on the panel:</b></p><p dir="ltr">Professor Celeste Gonzalez Bustamante (University of Texas at Austin)</p><p dir="ltr">Professor Jeannine E. Relly (University of Arizona)</p><p dir="ltr">Dr Nasya Bahfen (La Trobe University)</p><p dir="ltr">Professor Usha Manchanda Rodrigues (Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India)</p><p><br></p>