The “Human Rights Reporting for Media Practitioners” training was held on October 26th, 2011 in the Cambodiana Hotel of Phnom Penh. Funded and directed by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), this training seminar focused on instructing media representatives how to effectively cover human rights issues through their news sources. The training was attended by 20 delegates of local print and online news organizations. The group discussed human rights concepts, the potential effects of human rights reporting, and strategies for protecting journalists’ international rights to privacy and freedom of expression. The journalists also worked in groups on a case study, applying their new knowledge to the journalism process. Groups selected a recent human rights issue consistently featured in the news and assessed how the issue was reported on using a human rights perspective checklist. Attending media practitioners were encouraged to further integrate human rights issues into their journalism.
Human Rights Reporting for Media Practitioners
