Women Peace Initiative urges journalists to promote gender equality

By NDUMBE BELL GASTON JOSEPH IN DOUALA Efforts to mitigate gender inequality in the media was the nucleus of deliberations at a capacity building workshop for media practitioners on the concept of gender and the instruments of promotion and protection of women’s rights. Organised by the Women Peace Initiative civil society group headed by Mme Nathalie Foko, the workshop ran from July 3rd to 4th in Douala. Over 40 journalists, 10 of whom were men, came from the West and Central regions including those in the Littoral Region. Five other civil society groups like WILFE, WCIC and Veterans such as…