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Report
on 2006 winners of the journalistic awards for gender sensitive
and objective on girl child abuse
Girl
Child Network Trust (GCN)
June 15, 2006
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Introduction
Girl Child Network
has made great strides in fighting for the empowerment and elevation
of the girl child to her rightful place in the society through campaigning
against such atrocities as child sexual abuse being perpetrated
against the girl child in the home, school and community. In so
doing, GCN has made great impact across the society with other stakeholders
and various institutions joining in the fight against all dimensions
of abuse and in particular child sexual abuse which has the greatest
potential of irreparable damage and trauma. GCN has realised the
media as a potential ally hence has executed media monitoring since
2000 and tracked cases of child sexual abuse in various forms as
reported by the media or as they appeared in media circles. Besides
monitoring media reports on child sexual abuse, GCN also produced
a widely circulated Desk Study on Gender Based Violence in which
cases of violations of girls’ rights in the form of sexual abuse
were captured as they appeared in the media fraternity. The articles,
in front and middle pages of the newspapers and other news clips
in the electronic media indicated that through GCN’s advocacy efforts
some media practitioners have been sensitised in a very encouraging
way and have started to take a proactive role in exposing perpetrators
of girl child abuse.
It is against this background
that GCN saw it fit to come up with an incentive that will contribute
to increased objective and analytical reporting of child sexual
abuse cases in the school, home and the community at large. This
could only be done through honoring the journalists in both the
print and electronic media who stood head and shoulders above the
rest through a National Journalistic Awards Ceremony that GCN hosted
on the 4th of May 2006.
Planned activities
Publicizing the Awards
Publicizing the
Journalistic Awards began in November 2005. Press releases were
sent out to various media houses, in which journalists were invited
to submit their work. Journalists from all over Zimbabwe submitted.
On the 28TH of
March 2006 another Press Release was circulated in all the media
houses, again inviting journalists to submit articles or news clips
displaying content on girl child abuse. The press release was delivered
in all the media houses in Harare which include;
- The Herald
- The Sunday Mail
- Kwayedza
- Daily mirror
- The Standard and Independent
- ZTV and Newsnet
- New Ziana
For those media houses out
of Harare the press release was e-mailed. The following received
the press release and they responded;
- The Chronicle: Bulawayo
- Manica Post: Mutare
- Nehanda Guardian: Bindura
Media Monitoring and
Tracking
Since the year
2000, Girl Child Network has been monitoring both the print and
the electronic media. GCN to date has followed up on more than one
thousand cases of abuse which were reported in the press since 2000.
GCN has also helped some cases go to the courts after being reported
in the press. This way GCN has kept a record of journalists who
are keen on bringing out abuse to the fore.
It has always been GCN’s
culture to keep newspaper articles that have anything to do with
girl child and hence GCN can easily identify those journalists who
are passionate about the welfare of the girl child and those journalists
who are still prejudiced about the girl child and women.
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