STATUS OF FAITH-BASED MEDIA AND REGULATION OF RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE ON WOMEN IN THE MEDIA IN MALI, SENEGAL, NIGER AND CÔTE D’IVOIRE

This study, conducted as part of Panos Institute West Africa's project "Women: Occupy the Media !”, aims at supporting the relationship between the media, CSOs and religious leaders in order to ensure a more gendered media environment in the countries involved in this study, namely Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger and Senegal.

The study calls for the formal recognition of faith-based media in Senegal and Niger. It also suggests to the different stakeholders such as the Government, regulatory bodies and the civil society, women's rights organizations, to take a series of measures and actions to strengthen the regulation of religious discourse, for more social harmony but especially for a more gendered media environment.