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Journalism Week in Southern and Eastern Europe
Journalism Week in Southern and Eastern Europe
Start date: Sep 2, 2014,
End date: Jan 2, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The Young People of Bucharest Association, represented by members with experience in non-formal education, journalism and human rights, has been analysing the mass-media context as a defender of human rights, within Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Ukraine, Turkey. Following this study, we have identified a series of issues and needs at the level of societies in these countries, reflected in the 4 objectives of the project:
1. Increasing of understanding by the 25 participants from 5 countries, as a consequence of participating in this project, of the mission of press in fighting for human rights
2. Contributing in a greater extent to involvement of the 25 participants from 5 states in the development of a responsible mass-media system regarding human rights
3. Developing journalistic competences, in particular in the field of human rights respectation, for the 25 participants from 5 countries.
4. Producing of a human rights press review on topics concerning Romania, by the 25 beneficiaries of the project
We are linking the full first day of activities with the date of 2nd of November, when it is being commemorated the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. Relationship between political vectors, press censorship and its role for bringing into light of illegalities and breaching of human rights, is vital for a mass-media system that works for the well-being of citizens.
We will bring together at the project 25 people from the already mentioned 5 countries, from which 5 are group leaders. The participants' profile of consists of students, graduated or workers in the fields of journalism, communication, political science, sociology, having the age between 21 and 30. Group leaders will have between 30 and 40 and will have to prove higher expertize in the above named fields that the other participants.
The project will take place between 01 and 09 of November 2014, in Bucharest. Main activities will consist of: non-formal discussions with experts (also through a visit at the Institute for Investigation of Communism Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile), in which we will mix non-formal education with academic competences, film projections followed by debates, multiple sessions grouped under the workshops that has as purpose creation of Press Review on the Human Rights, with the implementation of methodology specific to journalistic investigations and by using as variable as possible sources, all activities taking place in a non-formal framework. All these activities will develop with the support of the Romanian participants in the project, that represent as well the project team.
Envisaged results are to be: raising of awareness of the role mass-media possesses upon human rights protecting for the project participants and for all public and private entities, as well as communities towards which the conclusions of the project will be disseminated, development of competences in the fields of non-formal education, journalism and human rights for the participants, a complex journalistic issue through which we can illustrate the deficiencies of mass-media in the correct presentation of subjects related to individual rights, with specific on Romania. Main impact of the project upon the participants is that of making them be more determined to fight for the human rights using the mass-media as intermediary, and main impact upon the initiating organizations is that of fostering their capacity at national and european level in what concerns the fields addressed by the project.
Long-term benefits of the project are represented by enhancing a more aware society of the problems imposed by human rights breaching and of the press role in fighting for them, as well as of the evolution of mass-media system in order to materialize this vision.