The Symposium was made colorful by the dinner awarding ceremony of women media practitioners who have overtime done impactful and life changing works. These distinguished ladies in media were selected from academia, research, management, civil society, mentors, managers, researchers and trainers.
Under #EndStereotyping, the blog intends to redress the gender insensitive gap within media coverage as well as influencing the mainstream media towards gender equality through responsiveness to subject matter.
Introduction and Background Uganda Media Women’s Association (UMWA) is a National level non-governmental woman focused and advocacy organization that was established in 1983 by a group of 48 female journalists as a membership association. UMWA envisions an engendered media where gender equality and women’s empowerment are upheld for holistic sustainable development”. UMWA’s mission is to […]
