The Uganda Media Women’s Association (UMWA), in partnership with the World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) and the Union of the Methodist and Waldensian Churches (OPM), implemented the project “Promoting Responsible Coverage of Women and Girls in Digital News on Platform X in Uganda.” As part of the project, UMWA conducted a Gender Media Monitoring […]
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20 Reasons Why Women In Politics Hate The Media
By Diana Kibuuka As Uganda gears up for the 2026 elections, women’s movements have expressed concern over the absence of female presidential candidates. The Uganda Media Women Association (UMWA) organized a meeting at Hotel Africana, bringing together stakeholders from the media, government, and various human rights organizations to address key questions: Where are the women’s […]
Multi-stakeholder responsibility needed to secure safety and security of female journalists
The Project observed that female journalists are increasingly facing a double burden of attacks based on the profession and gender as a result of being journalists and women. These attacks present both in the physical and online spaces within which they execute their duties and are perpetrated by both media colleagues, duty bearers/powerful figures, sources and general public.
Reporting Hard News: Female Journalists take it on with Organized Crime
Majority of the trained female journalists are undertaking investigative stories on corruption, extortion, sexual exploitations and peer-peer knowledge sharing in their journalists networks/newsrooms.
WOMEN AND MEDIA SYMPOSIUM 2023: HERSTORY: SELF, HEALTH AND WEALTH
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.
DigitALL: Translating Gender Responsiveness into Digital Spaces for Women Inclusion
As we mark the great achievements witnessed in women empowerment during this #IWD2023, UMWA continues to strongly advocate for opportunities that offer women equal utilization of the digital innovations and technologies for freedom of expression and enhanced socio-economic empowerment.
Women visibility increases by 4% in Ugandan Media-Study
The study also realized a gender selective reporting where there is a relationship between the sex of the reporter and the proportion of female and male news subjects appearing in print news stories. Female reporters covered more female news subjects and quoted more females in their stories as opposed to the male reporters. In equal measure, male journalists gave more audience to male sources but also within talk shows of purely male presentation, women suffered a low engagement under similar likelihood.
When Powerful Women Fight in Public
The Observer Team on December 12, 2016 wrote about Namuganza-Nantaba’s “ugly quarrel” in the story titled “Ministers in ugly quarrel”. The publication gave space to both females to accuse and counter accuse each other, creating the image of two women who cannot stand each other.
Are Female Public Figures Easy Targets for “Bullies” or They Just Fear Unflattering Light?
Do these women have the spine for harsh criticism or they are simply easy targets for bullies within parliament, social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and TikTok? What have they done to cope with the criticism, bullying or unflattering light?
Uganda Communications Commission Should Engage the Media on Gender Representation, Content
This is where Uganda Communications Commission-UCC comes in. The regulator needs to use its Content Committee, established under Section 14 of the UCC Act, 2013 to enforce fair gender representation and gender sensitive content.