Media needs to be more sensitive while reporting on child related issues, Indian Institution of Mass Communication (IIMC) Dhenkanal director Prof Dr Mrinal Chatterjee said while speaking at a one-day training programme for journalists ‘Role of media in child protection,” organised by Odisha State Child Protection Society (OSCPS), State Women and Child Development Department and UNICEF on Wednesday here.
“It is the responsibility of media to make sure that good and correct information is disseminated to the people of Odisha,” said Dr Chatterjee, adding that it is within that framwork they want to make sure children are protected. All have a right to information as well as to correct information, he added.
“We together can work for child rights. We need cooperation from media houses that will treat all in Odisha as equal citizens,” said UNICEF child protection specialist laxmi Narayan Nanda.
Among others, international level child rights activist Ishidore Philips and OSCPS Programme Manager Manoj Kumar Tripathy spoke.