Media can play a Role in curbing Human Trafficking

In the crusade against trafficking and violence against women and children, the media and press has a pivotal role to play in sensitising people on issues causing vulnerabilities and creating platforms for suppressed voices to be heard and showcasing antidotes and suggesting solutions for challenges

DARJEELING, June 13: A three day workshop on ‘Consultation on Gender Sensitive Rights Based Media Reporting: Building Positive Partnership,’ was organised from 12 to 14 June here, at Central Hotel by Diocese of Eastern Himalaya Church of India in parternership with United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM and Media Persons against Gender Violence, Human Trafficking and HIV/AIDS.
The problem of human trafficking and child exploitation has increased in leaps and bounds and is being overlooked as a social taboo, covering the districts of Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling, Kokrajar in Assam and the state of Sikkim.

The organisation in coalition with the members of the media and electronic print has joined in the combined efforts of tackling newer emerging vulnerabilities leading to trafficking in women and children in eastern Himalayan regions through systematic study, collections of datas related to the problem.

The issue demands for a wider recognition of the need to address root cause and explore possibilities to strengthen the social structure to reduce the exploitation of women and children. The issue, however, has failed to stir public conciousness in the Himalayan belts and no concrete measures have been formulated to create transparency relating to the problems of human trafficking.

In the crusade against trafficking and violence against women and children, the media and press has a pivotal role to play in sensitising people on issues causing vulnerabilities and creating platforms for suppressed voices to be heard and showcasing antidotes and suggesting solutions for challenges.

The seminar was attended by media persons from electronic and print media from different parts of the country.

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