CEBU CITY,
July 27 (PIA) – Media practitioners from around the country recently gathered
here for a three-day seminar-workshop on improving reportage of children.
The workshop was hosted
by Plan International Philippines in cooperation with the Philippine Press
Institute and Kapisanan ng mga Broadkaster sa Pilipinas (KBP).
With the theme “Upping
the Ante on Children Reporting”, the workshop aimed to help deepen media's
understanding of the concepts of child protection and positive and non-violent
discipline for children.
This is part of Plan
International's initiative called the Collective Action to Promote Non-Violent
and Protective Society for Children.
The project's goals are
to contribute to the protection of children from all forms of violence and to
enhance the capacity of civil society and government to implement policies and
strengthen programs prohibiting corporal punishment and bullying.
It is expected that
after the seminar-workshop, the media will contribute to realizing the vision
of a "protective and non-violent society for children."
(rmn/zmpc/PIA7-Cebu)