Seminar calls for portraying women equally and exclusively in media.

KARACHI -- There is the need to portray women in media equally and exclusively at par with men so that they can play their due role in national development. The recent slogan 'Mera Jism Meri Marzi' was spotlighted wrongly by electronic media as in fact, it was just aimed at saving women from sexual harassment. Electronic media direly needs to train its anchors and reporting staff so that they can highlight women's issues positively and respectfully. This was the crux of a seminary entitled Inclusive and Equal Portrayal of Women by the Media, organized by Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in connection with Media4Women Campaign running from 1st to 15th March in partnership with the Free Press Unlimited.

PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali welcomed the audience for participating in the discussion and said that on the eve of the World Women Day, PPF held the first activity on women safety some days back and today, they were organizing another program to seek inclusive and...