Media, a partner in the fight against trafficking

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Media, a partnerin the fight against trafficking
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Role of Media

• Professional, human and courageous reporting of
  topics related to trafficking in women and
  children. More courageous investigation of
  trafficking related stories and highlighting of
  responsibilities.
• Respecting a code of ethics especially in
  relation to victims of trafficking.
• Cooperation with anti-trafficking actors,
  especially in awareness raising and prevention.
• Media involvement in a wide awareness raising
  campaign on trafficking prevention, targeting
  youth.

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responsibilities

• Improve professionalism in handling trafficking
  stories. Avoidance of cliché articles and vulgar
  labeling for victims of trafficking.
• Protecting the identity of trafficking victims
  and of any information that could lead to their
  identification.

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responsibilities

• Development of relevant documents that improve
  ethical standards in reporting trafficking
  related stories, especially on minors
  (complementing Code of Ethics for media, signing
  of agreements or charters on a code of ethics for
  minors, etc)

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responsibilities

• Developing partnerships and relations with
  journalists in cross-border areas and NGOs
  working against trafficking.

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motivation

• Trafficking is an issue in Albania, given its
  extent and frequency of cases in courts, police
  or border crossing points.
• Newspapers are inclined to trafficking related
  stories, which are published under Crime
  Page/Black Chronic. This represents a major
  topic of newspapers and televisions.
• Sex stories are intriguing to the audience and
  Albanian newspapers are inclined to scoops, these
  topics including.

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Improvement of reporting

• Improve professionalism of journalists,
  particularly on investigative journalism ,
  through trainings, seminars or round tables.
• Training of editors and chief editors.
• Acknowledgment of successful models of national
  and international journalism (publishing of
  supplements).
• Enhancement of cooperation with NGOs or other
  anti-trafficking actors.
• Joint trainings with journalists and civil
  society representatives, with particular focus on
  public relation issues.

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Cooperation with NGOs

• Participation of journalists on advisory boards
  of NGOs.
• Participation of media in the awareness raising
  components of NGOs implemented projects.
• Establishment of joint networks or coalitions.