Assessment of Media Coverage of Human Rights Abuses in Internally Displaced Peoples’ Camps

2019 ◽  
pp. 137-152
Author(s):  
Olusola O. Isola ◽  
Toba Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Internally Displaced

Human Rights Abuses Against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 936-956
Author(s):  
Stephen Damilola Odebiyi ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This chapter investigates media reportage of human right abuses and sexual violence against internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Using the social responsibility theory, it analyses how the media frames, prominence, slant and whether the Nigeria media employed investigative reports in its reportage of human rights abuses against IDPs. The chapter through a quantitative content analysis of 157 editions of two purposely selected newspapers (the Vanguard NG and the Daily Trust), found that the media failed to contextualise the stories in relation to its causes, solutions and in identifying perpetrators for justice to be served, similarly, the media took sides with victims of the violations. It also failed to accord the required prominence and necessary investigative touch to such stories. It is recommended that there should be frequent trainings for journalists so as to safeguard professionalism in the industry.

Crisis and catastrophe on Chiloé: Collective memory and the (re)framing of an environmental disaster

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric H Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
Southern Chile ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
New Industry ◽  
Popular Unity

In May 2016, residents of Chiloé in southern Chile blockaded their island to protest the contamination of their fishery by aquaculture operators as well as the state’s failure to adequately regulate this new industry. Media coverage of events on the island, particularly the scarcity of food resulting from the blockade, constituted a discourse of images that invoked the mobilization of “respectable” women during other moments of political crisis—specifically the bread shortages during the Popular Unity government (1970–1973) and the widespread human rights abuses of the Pinochet Dictatorship (1973–1990). These images helped protestors transform an environmental crisis into a humanitarian catastrophe, mobilizing collective memory of suffering and gaining widespread support for their cause. This article argues that media coverage of the protest and subsequent support for the protestors in other parts of Chile strengthened the hand of those whose livelihoods had been affected by the crisis and led to greater compensation for fishing families.

Human Rights Abuses Against Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-200
Author(s):  
Stephen Damilola Odebiyi ◽  
Olugbenga Elegbe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Internally Displaced Persons ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Internally Displaced ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This chapter investigates media reportage of human right abuses and sexual violence against internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Nigeria. Using the social responsibility theory, it analyses how the media frames, prominence, slant and whether the Nigeria media employed investigative reports in its reportage of human rights abuses against IDPs. The chapter through a quantitative content analysis of 157 editions of two purposely selected newspapers (the Vanguard NG and the Daily Trust), found that the media failed to contextualise the stories in relation to its causes, solutions and in identifying perpetrators for justice to be served, similarly, the media took sides with victims of the violations. It also failed to accord the required prominence and necessary investigative touch to such stories. It is recommended that there should be frequent trainings for journalists so as to safeguard professionalism in the industry.

Making Sense of Human Rights Diplomacy: Evidence from a US Campaign to Free Political Prisoners

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-35
Author(s):  
Rachel Myrick ◽  
Jeremy M. Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Political Prisoners ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Coercive Diplomacy ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

Abstract Scholarship on human rights diplomacy (HRD)—efforts by government officials to engage publicly and privately with their foreign counterparts—often focuses on actions taken to “name and shame” target countries because private diplomatic activities are unobservable. To understand how HRD works in practice, we explore a campaign coordinated by the US government to free twenty female political prisoners. We compare release rates of the featured women to two comparable groups: a longer list of women considered by the State Department for the campaign; and other women imprisoned simultaneously in countries targeted by the campaign. Both approaches suggest that the campaign was highly effective. We consider two possible mechanisms through which expressive public HRD works: by imposing reputational costs and by mobilizing foreign actors. However, in-depth interviews with US officials and an analysis of media coverage find little evidence of these mechanisms. Instead, we argue that public pressure resolved deadlock within the foreign policy bureaucracy, enabling private diplomacy and specific inducements to secure the release of political prisoners. Entrepreneurial bureaucrats leveraged the spotlight on human rights abuses to overcome competing equities that prevent government-led coercive diplomacy on these issues. Our research highlights the importance of understanding the intersection of public and private diplomacy before drawing inferences about the effectiveness of HRD.

Media-driven Humanitarianism? News Media Coverage of Human Rights Abuses and the Use of Economic Sanctions

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 855-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dursun Peksen ◽  
Timothy M. Peterson ◽  
A. Cooper Drury
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Human Rights Abuses

Documents and Source Material

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Source Materials ◽  
Israeli Occupation

This section comprises JPS summaries and links to international, Arab, Israeli, and U.S. documents and source materials from the quarter spanning 16 May-15 November 2017. Fifty years of Israeli occupation was the focus of reports by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Oxfam that documented the ongoing human rights abuses in the occupied Palestinian territories. Other notable documents include Israeli NGO Gisha and UNSCO reports on the ten-year Gaza siege, Al Jazeera's interactive timeline of the Nakba, and an exchange of letters between the ACLU and U.S. senators on anti-BDS legislation.

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