The document discusses the role of media in human rights education and its contributions and challenges. It outlines how media can raise awareness of human rights issues and mobilize people to protect rights. However, media often prioritizes events over long-term processes and journalists themselves face threats. The document recommends that human rights educators collaborate with media, use alternative media, and demand better coverage of rights issues.

1. Media and Human Rights Education Rorie R. Fajardo Project Coordinator, Philippine Human Rights Reporting Project Amnesty International Philippines’ Training of Trainers on Human Rights Education 25 October 2008. Ciudad Christia, San Mateo, Rizal

6. Contribution of Media in Human Rights Education Human rights advocates and journalists are linked and share the same heritage: Modern journalism came from the pamphleteers – those who wrote leaflets and papers against unjust laws in the 18 th and 19 th centuries

7. Contribution of Media in Human Rights Education Press freedom: needed to ensure all other rights in a society are respected and protected. Attacks on press freedom go hand in hand with attacks on all other freedoms and rights.

19. American journalist Jerry Mitchell: It is time for a journalism that perseveres in spite of hostile forces. It is time for a journalism that believes in doing the right thing. It is time for a journalism that desires to help the undesirable. It is time for a journalism that never forgets the forgotten. It is time for a journalism that cares. Call it conscience journalism, if you like… Conscience journalism willing to expose the truth. Conscience journalism willing to seek justice for those who have suffered injustices. Conscience journalism willing to seek to correct the sins of our present as well as our past. Conscience journalism willing to stand up for the very people we have so long beckoned – the wretched refuse of our teeming shore.

20. www.rightsreporting.net