"Editors and journalists who have been trained to understand issues of gender-based violence and human rights can have a positive influence on educating public and political understanding of these issues. This article describes two workshops held recently in Senegal and Albania for male and female e
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ditors and journalists. The UNFPA workshop for journalists and editors from six African countries in postconflict situations, held in Senegal, was deliberately scheduled to coincide with the Dakar film festival on gender-based violence. The purpose of the UNFPA strategy was to achieve extensive media coverage in these six countries. The Albanian workshop for local and national media took place in Tirana as part of a three-year project against sex-trafficking, conducted by the NGO Albanian Centre for Population and Development in partnership with the Mediterranean Women’s Studies Centre." (Abstract)
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"Over the past five years USAID has supported anti-trafficking activities in more than 70 countries tailored to the conditions of the country. Most prevention programs combine awareness raising and education, employment, and income generation. Protection programs include training and other support f
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or local providers of victim services, as well as direct support for shelters. To improve prosecution of traffickers, USAID provides anti-trafficking training for law enforcement and the judiciary. USAID support for anti-trafficking activities in 2005 totaled $21.34 million, of which $15.18 million was from USAID resources and $6.16 was from the President’s AntiTrafficking Initiative. African countries received $2.2 million; Latin American and Caribbean Countries received $7.58 million (including $6.16 million from the President’s Initiative); $3.4 million went to countries in Asia and the Near East; and, countries in Europe and Eurasia received $7.86 million." (Introduction)
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"The information campaign that IOM Tbilisi is implementing in Georgia during the year 2002 aims at preventing irregular migration and trafficking in human beings from Georgia. IOM will seek to raise the awareness of potential irregular migrants of the pitfalls of irregular migration and to alert the
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m about the inherent dangers in trafficking. This information will give potential migrants a more realistic picture of possibilities for regular migration and help them to counterbalance misperceptions and deliberately misleading information. IOM conducts the information campaign in the framework of the “Cluster” process, which is an ongoing dialogue on irregular migration between countries of origin in the South Caucasus and those of destination in Western Europe." (Executive summary)
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"Trafficking of children between various African countries shot to prominence in April 2001 as a result of media reports that a ship carrying ‘slave children’, the Etireno, had gone missing after being refused permission to land at Libreville in Gabon. When the ship eventually docked in Cotonou
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in Benin, the port it had first sailed from, some journalists reported that no slaves were found on board. There were 43 trafficked children on the boat, not chained or visibly enslaved. They were accompanied by adults who initially claimed to be relatives, but who, after leaving the boat, did their best to disappear from view. Many of the children remained so intimidated that they did not dare recount the truth about where they came from to social workers at the shelters they were taken to, run by Terre des Hommes and others. This article highlights media portrayal of trafficking in children in West and Central Africa, explains why girls are more likely to be trafficked, and discusses some counter-trafficking initiatives undertaken by a range of institutions." (Abstract)
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"A Pakistani newspaper has fulfilled its mission: as a result of a personal enquiry an editor accidentally uncovered a traffic in children in his campaign — The newspaper gained prestige and increased its circulation." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the develop
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ing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 2515, topic code 19)
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