00:00We are trying to review how are the gender desks working in these rooms.
00:04Gender desks ideally are those desks that are meant to look at how do we report matters to do with
00:10gender.
00:11What are the classical examples? How are we reporting? How many stories are we covering?
00:15How are those stories being covered?
00:17And then we have comparison in terms of how many were they covered before.
00:20How are we covering?
00:22Normally in Kenya they want to believe that in many countries.
00:24For example, when you look at women issues, women will always be on the headlines when they are in some
00:30scandals, sex scandals, and then they address the headlines.
00:33You know, we just need some controversial stories, some interesting stories, and of course because of clickbaits.
00:39So what we're trying to look at is how can we sustain gender desks so that we can try and
00:45see that there is a given proportion of how we cover issues.
00:49When it comes to voices in terms of, you know, our stories, how are we balancing our sources?
00:55Are we giving everybody a chance to be able to be featured in a conversation that affects everybody?
00:59When it comes to conversations in panel discussions, for example, TV, we have seen for a long time manuals, and
01:06now we're like, okay, enough of those manuals.
01:08We also want to be in those spaces because I believe women have a voice.
01:11I believe other people, people with disabilities, LGBTQ people, everybody needs to have a voice in this conversation.
01:17So when my country says, you know, LGBTQI matters are non-issue, well, we have people living in this.
01:24I come from a human rights background.
01:26I'm asking where do they belong?
01:28Don't they have a voice?
01:29So when we are calling for inclusion, for inclusivity, to see that everybody is included, we are trying to look
01:34at where have we been?
01:36How can we enhance that everybody else can look at gender issues?
01:40Nope, that's specifically women issues, but issues that affect almost everybody, and therefore we need a voice in all that.
01:46When we are having panel conversations, we want to say, we have to have, if there are three people, we
01:51want to see that there's a woman there.
01:52When it comes to women issues, we are being deliberate about inviting men to be allies, and to really come
01:58on board, and also just to do a man-to-man engagement.
02:01And therefore, we have what we call man-to-man engagement at Arm Week.
02:05We try and see that they can become on board, they can help us when it comes to dealing with
02:10online harassment, when it comes to dealing with social media violence, you know, I mean, yeah.
02:14And also just physical violence against women.
02:19So we are bringing them in our conversations to make them, to see that they, too, can become our allies.
02:39It's the same way we want to escalate those conversations, even in our parliament.
02:43We are trying to push for a two-thous gender role, to see that all representation reflects at least a
02:49two-thous gender conversations.
02:51The president, during his election, had said, had promised that his cabinet is going to have 50-50.
02:58We didn't get that.
02:59And the women's rights organization are completely up in arms and saying, Mr. President, we had asked for this, we
03:05want this to be implemented.
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