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Shine a Little Light: Celebrities, Humanitarian Documentary, and 'Half the Sky'

In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 395-404
"'Half the Sky' is an ambitious humanitarian documentary about the global crises in gender discrimination. Based on Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book (Kristof and WuDunn 2010), the nearly four-hour documentary visits six countries to explore six issues: gender-based violence in Sierra Leone, ... more
"This book explores the role and purpose of journalism to spark and propagate change by investigating human rights journalism and its capacity to inform, educate and activate change. Downman and Ubayasiri maximize this approach by proposing a new paradigm of reporting through the use of human-focuss ... more

Guidance Note on Use of Victims' Images

Liberty Asia (2016), 25 pp.
"This Guidance Note is provided by Liberty Asia to NGOs across the Asia region as a suggested statement of best practice and guidance in relation to obtaining and using images of victims of human trafficking, slavery and forced labour. In addition to the Guidance Note, Liberty Asia has also provided ... more

The Role of the Internet in Trafficking for Labour Exploitation

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC);FINE TUNE - Labour Trafficking: Fighting New Trends, Understanding New Elements, developing new responses and partnerships;EU Prevention of and Fight against Crime Program (ISEC) 2011 (2015), 21 pp.
"The report examines what role the internet plays in trafficking in human beings for labour exploitation. It considers in particular methods of online job recruitment and looks at cases studies from several EU Member States – Czech Republic, UK, Ireland, and Romania – and discusses to what exten ... more
"This book is the first collection of original research to explore links between demographics and media coverage of emerging human rights issues. It covers cross-national reporting on human trafficking, HIV/AIDS, water contamination, and child labour; and same-sex marriage, Guantanamo detainee right ... more
"Websites and social media networks have made laudable efforts and contributions toward combating human trafficking, including, most notably, the creation and distribution of tools to detect child pornography. But there is room to do more. Many of the tools, policies, and procedures originally creat ... more

A Media Campaign to Increase Awareness and Prevention of Human Trafficking in Asia: Background Strategies and Outcome Evaluation of the MTV EXIT Campaign

Lincoln: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Third Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking (2014), 33 pp.
"In 2006, MTV and USAID launched, "MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking)," a multi-media, multi-platform awareness and prevention campaign against human trafficking that has reached over 20 million people in 21 countries in the Asia Pacific. This paper describes the campaign background, design ... more
"Celebrities now regularly engage with human trafficking policy and practice. A “sexy” topic, human trafficking is not only susceptible to alluring, fetishistic, and voyeuristic narratives, but plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer-of-the-victim ideal that receives a huge amount of attention from ... more

100 Best Practices in Combating Trafficking in Persons: The Role of Civil Society

Washington, DC: Johns Hopkins University, Protection Project (2012), 122 pp.
"The Protection Project encourages the dissemination of information about the best ways to combat trafficking in persons by recommending five main components of civil society: (a) nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), (b) corporations, (c) academia, (d) media, and (e) faith-based organizations. The ... more

Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 2: Practical Resources

Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC);International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 66 pp.
"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 2 will be of interest to media practitioners – jo ... more

Manual hacia un periodismo con conciencia de género

Mar de Plata: Asociación Civil De la Azotea;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2012), 64 pp.
"MTV EXIT ASIA is a large-scale multi-media program designed to raise awareness of trafficking in persons (TIP) in the Asia-Pacific Region with the objective of promoting behaviour change and driving social action. It reflects an innovative co-donor partnership between USAID and AusAID that aims to ... more
"This report examines South African media coverage of human trafficking during the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. The monitoring period included the month during the World Cup and the month immediately after (11/06/2010 – 06/08/2010). A total of 3009 newspaper stories and broadcast items were monit ... more

Telling the right(s) story? Die Arbeit der Nichtregierungsorganisation „Media Monitoring Africa“ in Johannesburg/Südafrika

Kaiserslautern: Technische Universität, Fernstudium „Nachhaltige Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“, Hausarbeit (2010), 38 pp.
"This article explores meaning-making processes around human trafficking, using the empirical example of the Slovene press. The analysis pinpoints how the topic appears in the media, what content emphases it receives in reporting, which aspects are dealt with and which are absent, and the implicatio ... more
"ASTRA SOS Hotline started its operation in 2002. Since then, almost ten thousand calls have been received. So far it has served as the only SOS hotline intended for (potential) victims of traffi cking in persons in the Republic of Serbia; at the time of its setting up it was one of the rare service ... more