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- Daily Voice and illegal coverage
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The Daily Voice, a Cape Town daily newspaper has grossly abused children’s rights. This story, published the 9th of March 2007, on pages 1, 6 and 7 of the Daily Voice, show children that were drugged, raped, filmed for the purposes of a pornographic film. Their images were then published in the newspaper, with only their eye colour obscured.
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- … in every matter concerning the child
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On the 21st of March, all people in South Africa celebrate Human Rights Day which commemorates the Sharpville massacre of 1960 and the signing of the Constitution. This is the same Constitution that guarantees the rights of children. In fact, Article 28.2 says ‘A child’s best interests are of paramount importance in every matter concerning the child’.
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- Media and the reporting of the budget speech
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The budget speech attracts much media attention every year. This year was no different. When reporting on the budget speech, it is expected that the media ‘translate’ the implications for their readers. In this respect the reports on the speech were not entirely successful.
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- Getting the best out of the media: Analysis of media coverage of the 16 Days of No Violence Against
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) found an increase in the amount of coverage provided to the16 Days of Activism Campaign No Violence Against
Women and Children during 2005. The majority of South African media performed particularly well, in some crucial respects the media performed
better in comparison to the 16 Days of Activism Campaign in 2004.
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- What Children Want: Children’s choices in programming
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The Media Monitoring Project (MMP)’s research with children and media challenges a number of preconceived ideas about children’s programming, how it is understood, and how it should be regulated. The study aimed to give practical realisation to children’s right to participate in all matters that affect them, as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The research was conducted as part of the MMP’s submission on the draft licence conditions of the SABC, and was supported by Save the Children Sweden. The findings have potentially far-reaching implications for ICASA, in line with the best interests of the child.
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- Children: Dying to Make the News
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The overall aim and objective of Empowering Children and Media project is to analyse the representation of children and children’s rights in the South African news media. This report serves as a baseline study that will enable the development of policies and strategies to address strengths and weaknesses in the coverage of children, as well as further the development of a human rights culture in the media, through training and advocacy initiatives.
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- A Resource Kit for Journalists: Children’s Media Mentoring Project
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This resource kit provides journalists with the necessary information to enable children’s voices to become a part of daily media coverage, without violating children’s rights, South African laws, or international norms and standards. The resource kit is designed to allow journalists and editors easy access to guidelines and laws during the production of news. We hope that you will use this resource, and the valuable information contained within it, to help to bring more children’s voices into the South African media, in positive ways, which do not harm children.
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- Don’t harm the children
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We are all outraged when bad things happen to children, but the very reporting of these outrages can violate children’s rights to be protected.
Three key issues can be identified in relation to the representation of children in the news media:
- children are minimally represented,
- children are often negatively represented, and
- children are stereotypically represented.
Article from Rhodes Journalism Review No 25, November 2005
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- e-tv: Violating the rights to privacy and dignity
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One of the central principles of journalism is the protection of the rights to dignity and privacy. The importance of sensitive coverage of those who are grieving, who have endured trauma, is enshrined in journalistic codes of conduct throughout the world. The commercial free-to-air channel, e-tv, has demonstrated some very concerning trends in media coverage over the last month.
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- 16 Days of Reporting Child Abuse: 16 days campaign 2004
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The 16 Days Campaign presents a window of opportunity for the South African media to focus on and engage with the issues of child abuse in a meaningful way.
The 25th of November 2004 marks the start of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign: No Violence Against Women and Children. The campaign aims to raise issues of abuse of women and children, to not only reflect on what happens in society but also how abuse is represented in the media. The 16 Days Campaign presents a window of opportunity for the South African media to focus on and engage with the issues of abuse in a meaningful way.
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