Abstract

This paper examines how news media play a crucial role in tolerating gender-based violence by constantly reinforcing ‘subtle’ gender stereotypes. After presenting the institutional background in which media, gender stereotypes and gender-based violence have been studied over the last 30 years, subtle gender stereotypes are defined as those stereotypes that are less evident than the obvious ones and are not usually correlated to gender violence. Nevertheless, they can be detected in the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in the news, as measured by the GMMP (Global Media Monitoring Project), which is the longest and most extensive study on the representation of women in news media.

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  • The Council of EuropeThe Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organization

  • Hate speech is verbal offence with the aim to diminish and humiliate a single person belonging to a target group

  • A second major difference between the two issues is that while gendered language has been proposed for European languages almost half a century ago, since the seminal work by Robin Lakoff Language and Women’s Place (1973), hate speech has only recently reached the agenda of international organizations for human rights in the defence of disadvantaged minorities

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The Council of Europe is the continent’s leading human rights organization. Belarus is the only European State which is not a member of the Organization. It is an intergovernmental organization, founded with the objective of protecting and promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law. From the 1980s onwards, the Council of Europe has played a major role in the development of norms and concepts such as parity democracy, gender. Council of Europe; ELSA, The European Law Students’ Association (2014). International Legal Research Group on Hate Speech Online.

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