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GCE Students participated in Human Rights and Journalism Camp in Dhaka |
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Relief International organized a Youth Journalism and Human Rights camp as a part of its ongoing project titled 'Media Access and Education for Human Rights: Bangladesh'. The project is aimed at making the marginalized youth and communities aware of the power of media to influence society and making media accessible to them. The project targets the rural and semi urban youths, local journalists, media professionals and the public at large, and implements enabling technologies appropriate to the existing infrastructure. More information on the project can be found at www.media-humanrights.org. This project is built on ECA supported Global Connections and Exchange.
The camp is designed to introduce journalism and human rights issues and topics to secondary school students in Bangladesh. Topics covered during the camp include journalism, basic issues of journalism, relationship between human rights and journalism, use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in promoting journalism, importance of photojournalism. The camp participants also visited some renowned print and electronic media houses such as NTV and the daily New Age , an English daily newspaper in Bangladesh.
The three day long camp took place from 23 March through 25 March 2008 at BRAC TARC in Savar. Twenty for students were competitively selected from the camp. Relief International received a total 134 applications from the GCE schools across Bangladesh.
Mr. Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Shangbad Shangstha( the national news agency) , was present at the opening session of the camp. During his inauguration speech, Mr. Chowdhruty said that " Mass media must play a role to address the human right issues in effective way. Students as well as the people need to be incorporated in raising awareness about human rights and use of power to influence the society. Mass media can help the people to enjoy access to information to bringing positive change in Bangladesh." He said the camp would play an important role to raise awareness regarding journalism and human rights.
The Youth Journalism and Human Rights camp is the first of a series of camps. A total of six camps will be held throughout the year and a total of 144 students will learn how to develop their journalism and technology skill through the camps.
Media Coverage
The Daily New Nation, 24 March 2008
The Daily New Age
Young People's Media Network |
