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Blessed Sacrifices Brethren

Dear Muslim brothers and sisters, Uganda Media Women’s Association and Mama FM joins to your banquet today with heartfelt wishes of merry, and prayer that Allah accepts all your sacrifices and blesses you richly. Happy Eid Al Adha Mubarak celebrations and peace unto you!

Male dominance, a persisting gender gap in media content

The 2020 GMMP report released by UMWA observed that there was a low women visibility in news media, only at 24% as news sources and subjects compared to their male counterparts. And yet, only achieved at a 6% rate over a ten year-period of time and a staggering progress as of the March-June 2022 gender responsive media monitoring engagements.

Would Denmark be the assisting triumph towards an engendered media in Uganda?

During an interview on Mama FM while on the delegation visit, Flemming observed that Denmark is one of the developed countries that is deliberate on gender equality and human rights as a foundation for democracy. He added that subject to human rights, media is assessed as fundamental and hinge to fulfillment of other rights for all persons, as a knowledge and advocate ground.