Even though the number of relevant articles on trafficking prevention
and new perspectives for vulnerable population segments has increased,
these issues have not become a priority for major national newspapers.
This is the major conclusion of the second monitoring report, which
was produced by a team of experts from the Independent Journalism
Center (IJC) in the framework of the project "New Perspectives for
Women." Insufficient diversity of sources and journalistic genres
used, lack of follow-up stories and solutions suggested to victims
were cited as the major coverage problems. The monitoring analyzes the
coverage of human trafficking, prevention thereof, as well as the way
Moldovan media report about the major facets of the NPW project. All
articles featuring aspects of internal and external human trafficking
for the purpose of prostitution, forced labor, begging and petty
crime, as well as organ harvesting are analysed, along with
activities/projects aimed to combat these phenomena and provide new
opportunities to vulnerable population segments. Both the content
features of articles and types of journalistic article processing are
studied. Quarterly monitoring reports are produced in Romanian,
Russian, and English. For more information, or to obtain a report
copy, please contact Natalia Angheli-Zaicenco at nangheli@ijc.md
(IJC).
IJC @ 10:30 PST, 06/07/05