AMMAN — HRH Princess Rym Ali, founder of
the
Jordan Media Institute (JMI), has said that the institute and its partners
have released a handbook to help journalists better cover news of refugees and
displaced people, and share their suffering and stories with the world while
upholding human rights, respecting their dignity, and avoiding bias, according
to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
The remarks were made at a Saturday ceremony
starting a series of
UNESCO trainings on “Reporting on migrants and refugees: A
handbook for journalism educators”, in collaboration with JMI and Germany’s TU Dortmund
University.
The princess thanked UNESCO for its unwavering
support of the media worldwide, as well as the UNHCR for its assistance in
launching the handbook.
She said that some reports failed to consider the
human aspect of refugee and immigrant issues, and instead portrayed them as a
burden that had a negative effect on host communities.
According to Princess Rym, many initiatives have
been undertaken in the region by individuals and non-governmental organizations
to aid refugees, but none compares to the handbook, which she praised for being
based on a thorough methodology and the highest standards of journalism.
The princess emphasized that accurate reporting on
refugees and migrants should shun hate speech and inaccuracies, and that
constructive journalism investigates the stories behind the headlines.
The UNHCR, Filippo Grandi, said that media reports
on refugees were not as significant as they are today, stressing that the
failure of governments in various countries of the world caused 200 million
people to flee their homelands.
According to him, expert reporting requires
knowledge, accurate information, the use of images, and awareness of the trauma
that migrants and refugees go through.
UNESCO Representative Min Jeong Kim said that the
guide will help journalists and university and institute students cover news
about refugees and displaced people, reminding people of this global
phenomenon.
She added that journalists play a crucial role in
amplifying the voices of migrants and refugees, and communicating their
suffering and human stories to the global community.
Released in 2021, the handbook is based on five
years of research and analysis as part of the Journalism in a Global Context
project.
The handbook aims to provide journalism educators with a
comprehensive set of modules that will allow them to train journalism students
to better understand the complex factual dimensions of covering migration and
forced displacement, as well as to translate this knowledge into sound and
sensitive, yet critical and challenging, reporting techniques.
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