Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Reporting GBV:Journalists Meet To Vulgarise Draft Code Of Ethics

   Journalists in bamenda have met in a one day training workshop to do an overview of the already drafted Media Code of Ethics in Reporting on Gender Base Violence. They converged in Bamenda at Blue Pearl hotel on December 09, 2021, with over 30 media practitioners answering present. 

Media practitioners posing at training workshop.

The event which was organized by Doctors of the World was aimed at including the draft code of ethics for reporting on gender base violence in the ethics of journalism through the ministry of communication. 
According to the document, which journalists have unanimously agreed on, it would therefore serve as a working guide for journalists, public speakers, graphic designers, media content builders and any other person whose work is related to the gathering, treatment and dissemination of information. 


The code spells out some standards to follow in the process of disseminating gender base stories and also for media actors to apply the provisions of the guidelines at different stages of their interventions. 
"This is a 32 months project and it is the continuation of a project that started in 2018 and ended in March 2021 due to crisis in the North West region". Singeh Helen highlighted. The GBV project manager in Cameroon for Medecines du Monde Suisse (Doctors of the world Switzerland), reiterated that they however had to push the project functionality to Mbouda in the West region before returning it back to Bamenda due to the crisis.


By Kimbi Lionel

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