Images : Dialogue in Islamabad on 11th Jan 2012.

Here are some images fromthe dialogue held in Lahore on 5th Jan 2012.

Images from our Consultative dialogue held in Karachi on 3rd Jan, 2012.

A series of consultative dialogue on gender sensitive media reporting between media professionals (both from print and electronic media) and representatives of civil society organizations (CSO’s) was organized in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Islamabad respectively. The purpose of this dialogue was to develop a framework for gender sensitive reporting by building consensus between media and CSO’s. All participants agreed that a gender sensitive code of ethics for media reporting should be devised and implemented. It was suggested that the code of ethics should include protection to women’s right to privacy and keep a check on their pictorial representation. They should not be represented as glamour objects. Efforts should be made to bring balance in the representation of women at all levels in media. A recommendation was made to expand the range of women related topics to reinforce their positive role in society.   

White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan’s newsletter gives a review of activities conducted during our ongoing Nationwide Journalists Engagement Programme in which we are committed to promote the culture of gender sensitive media reporting. It gives an account of the efforts we have made to engage media with our cause of involving men in ending violence against women.

fco-newsletter.pdf

White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan has taken an initiative to involve journalists and other media professionals in its cause of ending violence against women. For this purpose a White Ribbon Media Alumni is being set up. So far 85% of the total participants of this initiative have joined our white ribbon media alumni. This participation is on voluntary basis and we believe that such activities will promote a culture of volunteerism for much needed social causes in our media fraternity. WRCP is utilizing all available digital and social media channels to keep motivating journalists and media professionals to adopt and continue practicing gender sensitive reporting.

White Ribbon Media Alumni is also on facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/White-Ribbon-Media-Alumni/162361720530437

WRCP conducted trainings for journalists in Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar on gender sensitive media reporting.

Training session in Islamabad.

Group Activity during training in Karachi

One day training workshop, Lahore

Active participation of journalists in training session, Peshawar

For disseminating our message of ending violence against women, steamers were displayed on roads of Islamabad.

A nation wide media campaign for 16 Days of Activism (25^th Nov 2011 to 10^TH Dec 2011) was launched to disseminate our message of ending Violence against women. It included mass distribution of awareness material for men, collaboration with The Jang, The News and Geo News TV to mark White Ribbon day on 25^th Nov., mass mobilization through display of banners and steamers and circulation of SMS condemning violence against women on 25^th Nov to 3.0 million Warid subscribers. This activity focused on signing the pledge “Never to Commit, Never to Excuse and Never to remain silent about Violence Against Women” We are in the process of gathering results in terms of number of people who signed it.

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