By Matik Kueth
The UN Women, in collaboration with the Female Journalists Network (FJN), on Tuesday trained journalists on Gender Sensitive Reporting on South Sudan’s constitution-making process.
The workshop aims to enlighten journalists on gender reporting ethics, conflict-sensitive reporting, accurate reporting, and journalist safety and protection.
Speaking during the opening session of the training, Zara Sayid, Chairperson of the Female Journalist Network (FJN), said the training will help reduce false information throughout the constitutional-making process.
“Our training is on training and mentoring journalists for accurate gender response reporting of South Sudan constitution-making process. Constitution is a legal framework of a country, is the mother of all laws in a country,” Sayid said.
She stated that the constitution is a process and underlined the need to sensitize the public on the country’s constitutional processes.
“This training will equip journalists, editors, and media houses. In this, UN women, in collaboration with female journalists, have taken steps to bring professionals and to ensure professionalism in reporting issues on constitution making,” she stated.
Journalists during the training [Photo: Courtesy]
“Then our main objective that we want to look at it today is understanding the risk of reporting on conflict on human rights and safety tips for journalism. As we have a fragile state, some things are stable and unstable, and the civic space is still closed. We are trying to open the civic space so that we can say, what is this,” she emphasized.