- Gender violence in India: a report by Prajnya
Prajnya’s 2010 report Gender Violence in India focuses on violence in public spaces, with short accounts of four forms of public violence — street sexual harassment, workplace sexual harassment, ICT-related gender violence and gendered political violence — a datasheet based on select National Crime Records Bureau figures on violence against women, a short piece on the state of research on gender violence in India, and expert commentaries on different aspects of gender violence. The report can be downloaded from: http://www.prajnya.in/gvr10.pdf - Indian media coverage of the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict. Dilrukshi, a Sri lankan journalist, spoke about the Indian media’s coverage of the Sri lankan conflict and the invisibility of women in Sri Lankan politics and the media.
- Study examines media and press freedom in Sri Lanka. A study of media in Sri Lanka (April 2005) examines the challenges facing media in the context of the ongoing conflict between separatist Tamil rebels and the government. As a follow-up to volume one, which focused on media in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka, this volume covers Western and Southern Sri Lanka.
- Up-scaling pro-poor ICT policies and practices. A review of experience with emphasis on low income countries in Asia and Africa, by Richard Gerster and Sonja Zimmermann.
- Migration of tribal women. Lured by the prospect of livelihood, thousands of tribal girls land up in Delhi, just to be exploited by the unscrupulous touts and mushrooming placement agencies.
- Study on the coverage of elections 2004. The 2004 General elections began with the NDA government releasing ads with the slogans `India Shining' and speaking of the `feel good factor '. It asked the public for a renewed mandate on its positive economic / development record. It also fought this election on a personality plank: Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee against Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, Congress president. These became the focus of the 2004 election campaign for both the Government and the main Opposition parties.
- Women and media at the UN. The world's media, hungry for news from the beleaguered Security Council on the proposed war on Iraq, paid little attention to the fact that a document meant to provide a boost to the participation and access of women to the media, as well as information and communications technologies (ICTs), was being discussed elsewhere in the building during that period.
- The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality, The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) organised, in cooperation with the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), an Expert Group Meeting on "the role of men and boys in achieving gender equality" which took place in Brasilia, Brazil from 21 to 24 October 2003.
- The role of women journalists in strengthening democratic processes, by Payal Kumar
- A feminist analysis of media conglomeration, by Carolyn M. Byerly, presented at the NWMI second national meet at Bandra, Mumbai.
- More women are entering the global labour force, but job equality, poverty reduction remain elusive, ILO News
- Women, peace and security: report of expert group meeting (part one), IWTC Women's GlobalNet
- New Report from the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID)
- Failing women, sustaining poverty: Gender in Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers — paper by Ann Whitehead, UK Gender and Development Network
- Vienna +10: Speak Out —Help Shape the Future of Women's Human Rights
- Status of Women in Media in Nepal by Bandana Rana
- Global population policy update
- The Division for the Advancement of Women presents
"The role of men and boys in achieving gender equality"
—an Online discussion - Screening Gender
- Women and the media at the United Nations
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