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Media skills for covering VAW
30-5-2018
Fe-male association, in collaboration with ABAAD organization, launched yesterday the ‘working document on media coverage of violence against women’ at NDU, which is part of the Naseej project: ‘Enhancing Lebanon national system for the prevention, protection and response to gender-based violence’. The document, supported by the Dutch Foreign Ministry, is the outcome of a workshop that brought together experts and journalists in various legal, social and psychological disciplines, in addition to testimonies by Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian women survivors of violence and abuse. The workshop drew a protocol for media coverage aimed to reduce the exploitation and stereotyping of women in the media, noting that NDU has fully adopted the document provisions. According to Fe-male activist, Hayat Mershad, the coming period will see coordination with the ministry of information and other media institutions to this end. In addition, a training handbook on media coverage was presented which contained sections on how to use skills to cover the news of female survivors of violence, including legal aspects, as well as, an elucidation of terminology and notions of gender-based violence. A series of training workshops on the handbook will be implemented at a later stage. (Al Akhbar, May 30, 2018)
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