Speakers at a meeting in Rajshahi on Sunday observed that the role of mass-media is very important towards ensuring a gender-balanced and equity-based society through halting all sorts of repression and violence against women and children, reports BSS.
They also mentioned that the media both print and electronics has already established a number of instances towards supplementing efforts of law enforcers to bringing many persons who were involved in repression, violence and cruelty against women and children to book through objective reporting.
They came up with the observation while addressing a media mobilization meeting titled “Role of Mass-media towards Preventing Repression and Violence against Women” at conference hall of Association for Community Development (ACD), a rights-based non-government organization.
Brac and ACD jointly organized the meeting aimed at sensitizing the media personnel on objective reporting related to culminating the violence and repression against women and children.
Chaired by ACD Executive Director Salima Sarwar, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Brac Divisional Manager Raihanul Islam and its Technical Manager Mehedi Hassan, ACD Monitoring and Documentation Officer Ruhul Amin and its Media Manager Amzad Hossain Shimul as focal persons.
The speakers viewed that building social awareness among the community people, especially parents and teachers, has become an urgent need for prevention of child marriage and dowry for substantial and sustainable reduction of violence against women.
The government alone or any single organisation is not capable to free the womenfolk from violence and repression, so community participation is very important in this regard.
Salima Sarwar said overall national development could be possible through ensuring education and all other fundamental rights of the children coming from the poor and underprivileged families.
Physical and mental development of children could also be possible through protecting them from violence and deprivation, she added.
