Adams speaks Gender-based violence reporting
to pain of the
neglected
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identity, and there’s a broader responsibility
the city has on land it controls.
NYCHA is in the process of building
infill projects like Stonewall House on a
number of developments under its Next-
Gen 2.0 plan, hoping to raise $2 billion
to fund part of its massive capital needs.
Many residents don’t trust that the City
will keep its word, and they don’t know
if, let alone when, the benefits promised
from infill will materialize. There’s more
the City can and should mandate on
projects for City-owned land. We need
stronger commitments to local community
district preference, and more detail in
housing lottery marketing plans laid out
in land disposition agreements will ensure
greater equity in limited opportunities.
Additionally, we all need to raise our
voices to demand NYCHA be more proactively
responsive to the repair needs that
residents face right now. We must develop
a real-time approach to combat this crisis.
I would not and will never pit one community
against another. It’s particularly
unthinkable to pit our communities of
color against our LGBTQ+ community,
especially when these communities are
intertwined. In 2016, the Williams Institute
reported that 42 percent of people
in our state who personally identify as
LGBTQ+ are people of color. LGBTQ+
people of color have long confronted twice
the cultural stigma and a fraction of the
resources for their crises, including in the
fight against HIV and AIDS.
As someone who’s spent his life in
communities like Fort Greene — first as
a lieutenant in the 88th Precinct, now
as the first Black borough president — I
know the raw pain people experience
when they feel they are being neglected or
left out. I’m speaking to that pain. I also
know we’re going to need more LGBTQfriendly
senior housing like Stonewall
House across the five boroughs. I feel passionate
about ensuring we get it right for
everyone involved.
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UNFPA has also worked with
humanitarian partners to create
media guidelines and a Syria-specific
handbook for journalists. UNFPA
offices in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere
have also conducted media workshops
on these issues.
These efforts are already making a
difference. Since 2014, more than 500
journalists have attended the UNFPA
trainings held in Jordan, and some
1,500 have been reached through
related messages.
“I learned a lot about the potential
consequences of reporting and how
to carefully phrase my writing to
ensure that I am not harming those
I’m trying to help, particularly vulnerable
women and girls,” said Fatma
Ramadan, from Egypt.
CWGL, the founder of the global
16 Days of Activism against Genderbased
Violence campaign, has been
working in parallel to create a handbook,
website and app to help journalists
address these issues.
In 2018, CWGL and UNFPA jointly
held consultations with dozens
of journalists in Amman to understand
their challenges and needs.
The information gathered will help
inform CWGL’s handbook and other
resources under development.
Many journalists have indicated
that trainings should reach further
into the newsroom, as well. “Journalists
complain that, in many cases,
their stories are dropped at the editor’s
table, stressing the need to target
editors in any awareness efforts,”
Irshaidat said.
At the same time, he added, journalism
offers opportunities for creative
thinking and problem solving.
Reporters can be encouraged to find
novel ways to report on gender-based
violence without relying on invasive
personal interviews, such as “more
explorative features that examine the
wider social ramifications of genderbased
violence and male dominance,”
he said.
On Dec. 19, UNFPA and CWGL
officially partnered together to work
towards eliminated gender-based violence.
The partnership will include
efforts to reach, inform and empower
journalists – who can then help
change global perceptions about violence
and gender norms.
“We are looking at our work around
the journalist initiative and shifting
the discourse on how gender-based
violence is reported in the media,”
said Krishanti Dharmaraj, the Executive
Director of CWGL, at the partnership
signing in New York.
“This alliance is going to pick
up the pace,” said UNFPA Executive
Director Dr. Natalia Kanem. “It is
going to accelerate action.”
This was originally published by
the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
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