Reporting Gender Based Violence: A Handbook for Journalists

Published by Inter Press Services November 2009

ISBN: 978-0-620-45143-7

This handbook for reporters is designed to encourage and support sustained media coverage of gender-based violence (GBV) beyond the annual 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children. The handbook is divided into twelve sections which each include an overview of a key issue, some facts and statistics, and a sample feature article to provide an example of best practice and/or what to consider when writing about GBV. The publication also includes discussion questions for facilitators who plan to use this handbook in training.
Content:

-Custom, tradition and religion

-Domestic violence

-Sexual gender-based violence

-Femicide

-Sex work and trafficking

-Sexual harassment

-Sexual gender based violence in armed conflict

-HIV and AIDS

-Child abuse

-The role of men in combating violence against women

-The criminal justice system

-The cost of gender-based violence