Be guardians of children’s dignity, don’t traumatize them with your reports – UNICEF tells journalists

Media practitioners successful Kano and Jigawa States person been urged to follow ethical reporting standards to safeguard children from harm, stigma, and exploitation.

The telephone was made by UNICEF Field Office Kano Chief, Dr. Karanveer Singh, during a grooming connected Ethical Journalism and Child Rights held successful Dutse connected Wednesday.

Singh warned that unethical media practices specified arsenic revealing identities of susceptible children, publishing graphic content, and conducting insensitive interviews tin origin lasting intelligence and societal damage.

According to him, “children affected by violence, abuse, oregon struggle are peculiarly astatine hazard erstwhile their stories are mishandled successful the media”

He said exposing a child’s individuality could pb to stigma, societal rejection, and adjacent re-traumatization.

“children are not miniature adults and indispensable beryllium treated with dignity and care.”

Dr. Singh besides condemned sensational reporting of convulsive incidents involving children, noting that graphic details and disturbing images tin instill fearfulness and anxiousness among different children and communities.

He further criticized exploitative interviews, wherever journalists unit traumatized children for contiguous reactions, describing specified practices arsenic harmful and unethical.

Singh emphasi...