Caribbean Journalists
tackle Human Rights
Young journalists from
sixteen Caribbean countries and territories will attend the “Information
for Action IV” training workshop in Port of Spain from 3 to 4 December
2007 at the Cascadia Hotel and Conference Centre, St. Ann’s, Port of
Spain. The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, Senator the
Honourable Bridgid Annisette George, will deliver the feature address.
You are invited to
cover the Opening Ceremony, which will be held on 3 December 2007 from
9:30 to 10:30am in the Cascadia Hotel Conference Room No. 1.
“Information for Action
IV: The Rights of the Child – Building the Future” has been organised
by the United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean Area (UNIC)
in Port of Spain and the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) in
association with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This is the fourth workshop
organised by the UNIC and its partners to support the media in
fulfilling its monitoring and public education roles.
Trainees will include
broadcast and print journalists from the majority of countries that are
served by the UNIC: Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize,
Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, The Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao
and Sint Maarten), St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. International human
rights lawyers, United Nations experts and senior Caribbean journalists
are among the workshop’s resource persons and presenters.
This workshop will
expose trainees to the international human rights framework, including
the International Bill of Human Rights and the Core International Human
Rights Treaties, with a specific focus on the rights of the child.
Participants will discuss the role of the media in upholding human
rights commitments, through monitoring, commentary and public education.
This discussion will include a special session on “The Free Press”,
which will address human rights and freedom of expression issues as they
impact on the work of the media.
The Information for
Action IV workshop convenes as the peoples of the United Nations observe
International Human Rights Day (10 December), which this year will mark
the beginning of the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the 1948 Universal
Declaration of
Human Rights.
