AWARDS: CRCA Names Winners of 2005 Child Rights Media Awards (ALBANIA)

CRCA Names Winners of 2005 Child Rights Media Awards

16 February 2006

The Children's Human Rights Centre of Albania declared today the winners of the 2005 Child Rights Media Awards. This initiative of CRCA, supported by Palme Center and SIDA, has as its main aim to increase a better reporting of children issues and children rights in the mainstream printed and broadcast mass media in Albania. 'I have the pleasure today to announce the winners of the 2005 Child Rights Media Awards - said Mr. Altin Hazizaj, Director of CRCA - I come myself from journalism and I know how important is to support the journalists in their daily work and their aims to bring to the attention of the society at large and the Government issues and concerns that not always make it to the public agenda. Only during the recent last two years we have seen a greater interest of media on children and their rights. For this reason we at CRCA will support every journalist and every media to raise their concerns on children's rights situation in Albania'. The Child Rights Media Awards, are given for the very first time to the journalists, based on three major categories: Child Rights Printed Media Award; Child Rights Radio Award; and Child Rights Television Award. The three Media Awards went: To Ms. Holta Zhiti, journalist at the national TV 'Top Channel', as the best Journalist for Children's Rights in a Television channel, for her continuous and truthful coverage of children issues during 2005. To Mr. Arben Muka, journalist of the Deutsche Velle Radio (Albanian Section), as the best Journalist for Children Rights in a Radio Station, for his coverage of children issues, especially for bringing to the public agenda his concerns for the miss-use of children and children images during Election Campaign 2005 in Albania. To Ms. Denisa Xhoga, journalist at the Daily Newspaper 'Metropol', as the best Journalist for Children's Rights in the mainstream printed media, for the continuous coverage of children's lives, children's concerns and child rights violations in Albania. The aim of the Child Rights Media Award is to promote child rights issues in the printed and broadcasted media in Albania; to increase the level of media reports on children and to increase the ethics of media towards children and their rights. The Child Rights Media Awards will be given to the journalists in a public ceremony that CRCA is planning to hold during March 2006.

 

SOURCE: http://see.oneworld.net/article/view/127746/1/3260

CRCA homepage: http://www.crca.org.al/

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