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- ETV’s report on Ukuthwala, Human Trafficking & The Media
Child right’s groups have called for the abolishment of Ukuthwala.The South African Professional Society on the Abuse of Children says the tradition is criminal and is fueling human trafficking.
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- Reporting Human Trafficking – can sensitivity and accuracy outsell sensationalism?
On the 3rd March 2011, an audience gathered at the Bioscope on Fox Street in Johannesburg for the first exclusive airing of the radio documentary “Human Trafficking and Child Protection: Is the Media telling the right(s) story”.
We’ve compiled a collection of the most thought provoking moments from the discussion that followed.
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- The World Cup and Trafficking – fears, hype & fatigue!
“It is a crisis, it just wasn’t a crisis according to how we as journalists expected it to be. It’s an indictment, it’s a problem with journalists that we follow the pack, and we follow certain stories that are in the news and when it’s out of the news it dies.”
- Khadija Magardi, Senior Journalist“Do I think we acted responsibly? Absolutely. Do I think the NGOs acted responsibly? No. I think there was a lot of fear mongering before the world cup”
- Kevin Ritchie, Editor, Saturday StarThese are some of the insights uncovered by child journalists Khumo Baduza and Khotso Zhile in their documentary, for Media Monitoring Africa’s “Child Protection and Trafficking: Is the Media Telling the Right(s) Story”
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- Visual Stories of Human Trafficking’s Victims
“Sometimes I wonder if I am crazy to be covering the issue of human trafficking as a photographer” - Melanie Hamman explains what motivates her to work as a photographer documenting modern slavery in South Africa.
(As published by the Niemen Foundation for Journalism at Harvard)
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- Sensational & exaggerated reporting hinders efforts to tackle human trafficking
Media Monitoring Africa says sensational and exaggerated reporting on human and child trafficking can often lead to a failure to address the real issue. MMA held an exhibition on Child Protection and Trafficking in Johannesburg. Key to developing the exhibit was the participation of children.
Richelle Seton-Rodgers reported on the exhibition for SAFM 105.1 FM on Midday Live 24 November 2010
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- The travesty of human trafficking in SA
Renowned South African human rights lawyer George Bizos was moved to tears by the abuses highlighted in an exhibition on human trafficking in South Africa, launched at Constitutional Hill, writes Jackie Bischof for journalism.co.za.
The exhibition will run through mid-December and is part of Media Monitoring Africa’s interrogation of the media’s coverage of human trafficking in the country before, during and after the 2010 World Cup.
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- George Bizos to open MMA Photography Exhibition
CHILD PROTECTION & TRAFFICKING: Is the Media telling the right(s)story?
Photography Exhibition opening with guest speaker GEORGE BIZOS
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