Around the world, the media is the most effective avenue for spreading human rights awareness and acceptance. While spreading messages through schools and community forums can be effective at reaching dozens or even hundreds of people at the time, they can't match the reach and scope of the media. For instance, one radio station in the Congo can reach hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously with information about women's rights. A website featuring photographs of rights abuses in North American Aboriginal communities may get millions of hits a day. Increased awareness about human rights is the first, and most necessary, step to ending human rights abuses. The more people know and care about human rights standards: * The more people are empowered to defend their own rights (think FGM victims in the DRC) * The more people are inspired to come to the defense of others (think of interventions in spousal abuse situations in North America) * The more governments and civil society leaders are forced to improving their practices (think of the improved government rights record in Ghana or the US under Obama) The more human rights norms are injected into the fabric of society, the less likely rights abuses will be committed or tolerated when they do occur. Other methods of improving human rights-namely creating legal frameworks (United Nations) or sparking international public pressure (Amnesty International)-can be effective, but only when the general public in the countries in question understand, accept and embrace their human rights first.
Media promotes human rights by showing a wide audience how people are mistreated around the world. By bringing the images and ideas to every-one's attention, it is more likely that they will get resolved.
The role of Mass Media to protect human rights is to facilitate the information obtained absolutely accurate and unbiased. The responsibility is left to the people and those we have elected to speak for us.
roles of judiciary in fundamental human rights
Law plays an important role in protecting the society from all sorts of abuses and human rights violation. It also plays plays a role in promoting peace and harmonious citizenship
Provide advice and leadership on human rights matters pertaining to the military.
As a DOD representative in the Human Rights Initiative, my role is to ensure that the Department of Defense upholds and promotes human rights principles in its policies and actions. I work to integrate human rights considerations into defense strategies, operations, and training, and collaborate with other stakeholders to address human rights challenges. Additionally, I provide expertise and advice on human rights issues to inform decision-making within the DOD.
Any media form can provide content that is worthy or that panders to the worst in human nature.
Helped show the whole world the Racial chaos in the south.
Media is nothing but technology, so what impact media or technology plays its role in an individual's life. thinking it practically the media only makes a person as an intellect but not as a human being. A student prays to god to get a great personalities such as Radhakrishnan, Rabindranath Tagore as his teacher.But he never prays to god to get teacher as media because he knows that it is the human who brings life to a student's thought and not the media.
Role of NHRC in protection of Human Rights in India
He protested for the righteousness of black people.
it is a transmission media..
"The role of the media in poverty reduction?"