Training on Empowering print and electronic media Journalists on ethical reporting of GBV survivors.

SWDC Has carried out one day Training on Empowering print and electronic media Journalists to appropriately publish, report & advocate for GBV, FGM/C, Child Marriage and disseminating hotline services.

The Number of participants who were invited to attend the workshop were 40 participants including 25 men and 15 women from different print, electronic and media journalists.

These participants were trained on Ethical principles of reporting GBV, How to interview gender-based violence survivors including guidelines and precautions, role of media in reporting GBV and other human rights violations and The Training was conducted on 23rd October 2018 at SWDC Hall.

SWDC

Somali Women Development Centre is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established in 2000. SWDC believes that women can become empowered through the support of our community, and that they can make positive changes in not only in their own lives but also for the betterment of their communities. SWDC is working hard towards improving the condition of women and other vulnerable groups.

Somali Women’s Development Centre strives to lessen the number of women subjected to violence by empowering them through access to knowledge and greater social and economic independence.

It strengthens women socially by improving their standard of living and thereby fortifying the family. SWDC programs focus on women at the grassroots level, in areas of intervention, prevention and advocacy together with networking of women’s groups for community development and peace.