Media Awards: Reporting on trafficking and HIV

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Media Awards: Reporting on trafficking and HIV

One of the fundamental and central elements of the UNDP-TAHA project is

generating rights and gender sensitive responses to trafficking and HIV in

India. To facilitate this process an innovative approach has been undertaken to

mobilise and sensitize media for sensitive and priority reporting on issues of

trafficking and HIV. The aim is to gain visibility/priority for the issue in

both the national and local media, print as well as electronic.

As part of the media strategy, HDRN which is TAHA is implementing partner is

announcing media awards for the four best published and aired reports each, four

for print and four for electronic, on issues related to trafficking and HIV.

The main objectives of the initiative are:

Help journalists improve the quality of reporting, in terms of

comprehensive and sensitive reporting, on issues related to trafficking and HIV

Provide motivation for in-depth research, study and deliver reports on related

issues to the subject Reinforce participants' commitment to address the issue

through their work

Awards are open to all categories of news media, specifically, newspapers,

magazines, internet, radio and television; and all categories of media personnel

including producers, photographers, artists, reporters, editors, etc. who are

Indian citizens.

To Apply

Please fill in the application form available at

http://www.hdrn.org/Application%20Form/index.asp.

Time Frame

Applications open: August 10, 2006.

Last date of submission: October 10, 2006

The Award

Eight media personnel will be awarded Rs. 25,000/ - each (four from the print

and four from the electronic media).

For more details, you can contact:

HIV and Human Development Resource Network (HDRN)

J/ 50, B.K. Dutt Colony

Jor Bagh Lane

New Delhi 110003

Tel: 91.11.24652297/98

Email: hdrn@...