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This is a slightly belated communiqué from me from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity - the annual gathering for the global creative, advertising and media industries to connect, share and celebrate the winners of the Cannes Lions’s 24 awards (drawn from over 400,000 submissions) which are judged and presented at the Festival.
As Britain and the world reel in shock at the outcome of Brexit, TWF considers the gender implications of the referendum results. Depressingly, women were noticeably absent from media debates and other public forums leading up to the vote.
TWF, the Centre for Comparative & Public Law and the Women's Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong brought together leaders and change makers from the NGO, social service and education sectors to the Community Screening of "She Objects" followed by a panel discussion on the role of education in promoting critical thinking on media creation and consumption.
This month, we mourn the deaths of boxing superstar Muhammad Ali who died of natural causes and British MP Jo Cox who was murdered in her prime.