International Migrants Day | Trafficking Reporting Guidelines | UN Hate Speech Meeting in Cairo | Migration Reporting Training Romania
20 December 2017
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS DAY
To mark this week's International Migrants Day this edition of the EJN newsletter focuses our activities on migration and hate speech over the last two weeks in Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Romania, and Turkey. Scroll down for our usual round up of the best media ethics news from around the world as well as new translations of EJN resources.
IN VIENNA: Speaking at a joint conference of the OSCE and International Organisation of Migration (IOM), Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, on December 18 insisted on the need for self-regulation and ethical initiatives to combat hate speech against migrants and refugees, such as Carta di Roma, the Charter of Idomeni, and the Ethical Journalism Network's Turning the Page of Hate Campaign.
UNAOC #SPREADNOHATE SYMPOSIUM
IN CAIRO: TheEJN's Tom Law spoke on a panel at the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) symposium on hate speech against migrants and refugees in the media on 13 December 2017 in Cairo, Egypt. The EJN's participation at the event was covered by Al Watan, El Mundo and Nile News. The EJN's recommendations were based on three recent reports.
On December 8 the EJN's Tom Law delivered a session on on migration reporting as part of a week on training for journalists from 16 European countries hosted by the National Commission of Romania for UNESCO. Journalists and media representatives from 16 countries took part in the training: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and UK.
IN ISTANBUL: The EJN's Director Aidan White attended the launch of new guidelines produced by the EJN giving advice to media on how to report human trafficking and smuggling. The guidelines will be published shortly in various languages including; Arabic, Moldovan; Albanian; Azerbaijani; Bosnian; Turkish and Urdu.
The new guidelines are part of the EJN's ongoing collaboration with the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD). Earlier this year EJN authored a 17-country study:“How does the media on both sides of the Mediterranean report on migration?”. The Study was commissioned in the framework of EUROMED Migration IV – a project financed by the European Union and implemented by ICMPD.
IN JORDAN: At the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism summit on the Dead Sea, the ICMPD and EJN partnered to host a packed session on how media can cover human trafficking, with EJN Adviser Magda Abu Fadil and Journalist Laura Secorun Palet joining the EJN's Aidan White and Tom Law. Magda used the new ICMPD guidelines to illustrate good and bad practice, while Laura focused on techniques for interviewing victims of trauma.
HATE SPEECH IN EGYPTIAN MEDIA
IN JORDAN: The American University in Cairo, Egypt Media Development Program, and Ethical Journalism Network launched a Glossary of Hate Speech in Egyptian Media to help media identify hate speech and deal ethically with dangerous words and images at the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism conference in Jordan on 2 December 2017. The Hate Speech Glossary for Egyptian Media, which has also been launched in Cairo, has been published as a booklet with the plan to expand it and turn it into an online tool in 2018.
IN JORDAN: During this session at Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism summit in Jordan, the International Labor Organization (ILO) and Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) discussed how to ensure that terminology, imagery, and framing of migration stories is ethical and in line with international human rights standards. The event launched the ILO's new Media Friendly Glossary on Migration - Middle East Edition.
IN JORDAN: The Ethical Journalism Network and WAN-IFRA hosted an evening of films on human rights and press freedom at the Arab Reporters For Investigative Journalism summit in Jordan. The EJN's film was "Sea of Pictures" which looks at the ethics of how media use images of refugees and vulnerable people.
