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Eighty Zimbabwean journalists have been given free safety training by INSI in four courses beginning in Zimbabwe and ending in neighbouring Zambia between March and April 2009.
Journalists work under constant threat in Zimbabwe under the repressive government of President Robert Mugabe. Last year several were arrested, detained or beaten up, and a photographer was found murdered.
“We are delighted to have been able to provide real, practical help to colleagues working in such a dangerous environment. They need to know how to protect themselves,” said INSI Director Rodney Pinder.
Journalists came from all the different regions in Zimbabwe and 60 travelled all the way to neighbouring Zambia to participate in the safety training, which included subjects like risk assessment, home and office security and improvised first aid.
Each group also participated in conflict-sensitive journalism workshops which were organised jointly with the safety training in order to provide both the practical and professional skills best suited to the situation in Zimbabwe.
“I gained a lot”, said one journalist, “especially coming from a background of being arrested eight times.”
The safety training was supported by International Media Support (IMS) with the collaboration of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) and the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). It was provided by INSI and a specialist from AKE Group Ltd and the conflict sensitive journalism workshops were taught by Media and Democracy Group and International Media Support.
INSI, a non-governmental organisation supported by news organisations,journalist support groups and humanitarian concerns worldwide, has now provided safety training at no cost to 1223 journalists and other news media staff in 20 countries.
Deutsche WElle reports that German Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen is the latest and most prominent German child advocate to speak out against private television channel RTL’s decision to go ahead with ‘Erwachsen auf Probe’, or ‘Grown-up on Probation’. Von der Leyen urged RTL to either ‘stop the show or thoroughly re-work it.’
Yet RTL has said it will do no such thing and intends to air the first episode on June 3 as planned. The show follows four teenage couples who have said they want to become parents. The teenagers are given a borrowed baby to care for over several days and TV crews document their struggles to change diapers and quiet temper tantrums. The show poses the question: are these teenagers really ready to take on parenthood?
Criticism from child advocates has been building in recent weeks. German child advocates say the show exploits the young children who are being loaned out to inexperienced teenagers. The German parliament’s commission for children issued a statement in which it chastised RTL for using children as guinea pigs and for ‘exploiting children in an irresponsible manner.’ The commission urged RTL not to air the series. Germany’s Federation for the Protection of Children has also weighed in, saying it is ‘furious’ at the concept, which it claims puts children at ‘high risk.’ The show has cleared all necessary regulatory hurdles. RTL has pointed out that the babies are monitored around the clock by child psychologists and doctors to ensure that the inexperienced caregivers do no harm and that the parents are also just off camera.
As reported by the Press Gazette, Zimbabwe’s prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for a “new culture of respect” that would allow foreign journalists to report freely from the troubled southern African nation. The veteran opposition leader, who formed a coalition with president Robert Mugabe in February, said he deplored recent arrests of journalists.
In a recent news conference he said a new state media commission would be formed to “facilitate the opening up of media space”. Stringent licensing of local and foreign journalists that effectively banned most foreign news organisations from entering the country had ceased to apply under the coalition agreement, he said. Tsvangirai said journalists and media organisations are no longer legally obliged to apply for accreditation until a new media commission is in place.
While organisations including the BBC were banned from entering the country – many reporters sneak in unofficially – others have been deterred by licensing fees in the tens of the thousands of US dollars.