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- Children protected in Saturday Star article
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An article by Saturday Star receives a GLAD for protecting the identities of children featured in a story about their mother, who was jailed for hiding them in order to protect them from their father, who she claimed sexually abused them.
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- City Press indirectly labels child
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An image published alongside an article in the City Press has been awarded a MAD for indirectly labelling a child as poor.
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- The Best Promoter & Worst Violator of Children’s Rights in SA Print Media (January - March 2011)
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MMA has produced a MAD OAT quarterly report for the first three months of 2011. This report is a qualitative assessment of articles published by mainstream print mediums which, in our view, clearly violated or promoted children’s rights.
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- The Times and Sunday Times identify children in murder case
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Two articles by The Times and Sunday Times identified children in a murder story when it was not in their best interests. They share a MAD for violating their rights including the right to privacy.
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- Student speaks out about Soweto’s schools and media listens!
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Media Monitoring Africa congratulates media organisations who gave a voice to the concerns of a 16-year-old girl from Soweto who spoke out at an education conference about failings in the township’s education system.
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- Sowetan gets a GLAD for positive article on terminally ill girls.
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An article by Sowetan was selected for a GLAD for its positive and empowering portrayal of terminally ill girls.
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- The interests of the child are paramount
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An article by Daily Sun shares a MAD with two articles by The New Age for depicting children as needy and failing to respect their rights to privacy and dignity.
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- Ukuthwala, Human Trafficking & The Media
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Forced marriage falls under the purpose of exploitation in the definition of human trafficking.
By international law, and in accordance with the parameters for human trafficking set out by the UN; like forced marriage in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, the practice of ukuthwala as it is being used to perpetrate these crimes today in South Africa is most certainly classifiable as human trafficking.
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- Minimizing harm on children is crucial
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An article by Daily Sun was selected for a MAD for reporting that was not in the best interests of a burnt child.
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- Daily Sun identifies child perpetrator and victim - violates legislation.
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An abandoned baby was identified in the article “’Moses’ in the bucket found in drain!” (Daily Sun, 12/04/2011, p. 7) whilst a teenage mother who dumped her baby was indirectly identified in the article “Young mum dumps baby under bed!” (Daily Sun, 12/04/2011, p. 7). The two articles share a MAD.
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