“Address of Human Rights – Journalism”

"TDM 2000 Internatioanal is glad to announce its partnership in the project “Address of Human Rights – Journalism”.

The aim of the project is to reduce racism and xenophobia by changing portrayal of sociallyvulnerable groups in media.

The project will be developed with the implementation of 3 training courses where participants willwork to strengthen the cross-communal understanding by uprooting of racism and xenophobia. Theproject will be enriched by the contribution of the internal and external. In total 90 persons from 6partner countries will be enabled for this mission.

Moreover, project participants and the society at large will be invited to take part in the mediacampaign for mutual understanding. Campaign will make investigations on why do racist,xenophobic attitudes do arise, how does the hate speech affect the society and in particular, thetargeted groups. Journalists will be invited to undertake journalistic investigations according to thetopics proposed in the on-line journalistic investigation platform that will be run by the participationof society, especially minority groups concerned.

Therefore, international training course will be organized for 30 self-help NGOs and NGOsfrom the partner countries working with target group. This training course aims to prepare themethodology on how to enable the target group to represent themselves and communicate with themedia.

The partners are:

The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism
Arci Catania
TDM 2000 International – Italy
European Youth Press
Concordia International Group (CIG)
International Initiatives for Cooperation (IIC)
Center for Economic Development (CED)
International Development Alliance (IDA)
Media Diversity Institute
National Institute for Social Integration
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU)
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