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 Posted - 22 Feb 2008 : 19:27:01
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Sub-Regional Network of Human Rights Journalists in the Offing
By Madi S. Njie
West African Journalists, who participated in a three day human rights journalists training of trainers workshop, organised by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR), on the last day of the event, selected a working group tasked to work out the ground work for the establishment of a Network of West African Human Rights Journalists.
This development followed series of calls by participants, who were drawn from 14 different countries, and who called for the establishment of a regional body of human rights journalists to participate fully in the promotion and protection of human and peoples’ rights in the continent.
The event, funded by the Dakar-based Open Society International for West Africa (OSIWA), was attended by media representatives from Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal, Benin, Liberia, Niger, Togo, Republic of Guinea, The Gambia and Cameroon. It was geared towards inculcating better understanding of the African Human Rights System to human rights journalists with a view to making them more effective in the promotion and protection of human and peoples’ rights.
A four-man working committee from the Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Cameroon was selected and tasked with the responsibility, among other things, to formulate a documented structure of the regional network of human rights journalists, which in the long run would work towards the establishment of Network of African Human Rights Journalists (NAHRJ).
The working group’s coordinator, Mr. Musa M. Sheriff, is also the coordinator of the Network of Human Rights Journalists (NHRJ), The Gambia.
Meanwhile, the committee had their first meeting at the end of the regional Human Rights Journalists training program on Thursday, February 12, 2008 at the Paradise Suites Hotel.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 22/2008, 22 – 24 February, 2008
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