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This article constrasts the representation of women and immigrant minors as social actors following the theoretical framework proposed by Theo van Leeuwen (2008). The corpus of examples belongs to the news items from the radio and television programs called Hora Sur Andalucía and Canal Sur Noticias respectively; they were collected between 1 April and 31 July 2011 This corpus is part of the following project: Proyecto de Excelencia de la Junta de Andalucía. Reference: TIC-6517. Call: 2010 "Immigration discourses in Andalusian mass media: the discursive and visual construction of the new Andalusia", University of Granada, Institute of Migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article intends to approach the way NGOs represent the population in poor countries, in rich countries and the NGOs of Development. Our corpus consists on the publications of Intemon Oxfam published in 2012. We will offer a detailed analysis of the covers because this is the first page seen by the audience and because this is the way in which the NGO introduces itself. Critical discourse analysis, in concrete the model proposed by van Leeuwen in 2008 and Kress and van Leeuwen's (2006) visual grammar will be used in order to provide a detailed analysis of the covers under study in order to observe the main visual characteristics used for presenting people from South countries in one of the main publications of the said NGO. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]