Break the silence

Name of the activity: Break the silence

Country/NMO: Venezuela (FEVESOCEM)

Program: Ethics & Human Rights in Health

Contact information: [email protected] / [email protected] .

Type of the activity: Education. Education on health issues for specific societal groups, either in the form of projects (set of tasks for a certain group over a fixed period of time), events (something notable that happens) or conferences (form meeting about ideas related to a particular topic, usually over several days).

General description:

The activity consists of the Publication of flyer with information about threats to press freedom and the ethics and importance of the media.

Theme:

Ethics of journalism

The means are necessary. Why?

Freedom of the press and democracy

Legislation: national and international for the protection of press freedom

Security in countries with respect to freedom of prey; covers murders, kidnapping, classification of countries with greater and less freedom of the press

Main attacks on press freedom at national and international level

Focus area:

Derechos Humanos

Problem statement:

the problem to be addressed is the little emphasis on threats to press freedom in many ways: direct censorship through laws that do not respect international standards, concentration of media, violence against media and journalists, impunity for crimes committed against media and journalists, digital violence, self-censorship, among others.

Target groups:

General population, Medical students

Beneficiaries:

General population, Medical students

Objectives and indicators of success:

General Objective

Inform and evaluate the state of press freedom throughout the world.

Specific objectives:

Report threats to press freedom

Expose the ethics and importance of the media

Defend the fundamental right of freedom of expression

Success Indicators:

1. Number of informative virtual campaigns published in the social networks of local societies.

2. Number of infographics made by local officials.

Methodology:

Publication of flyer with information about threats to press freedom and the ethics and importance of the media

Plans for evaluation:

The monitoring of the different activities carried out by every National Officer according to what is established in the guidelines of the activity that was sent to each of them, will be done through consecutive revisions of the visual material that will be published in the different social networks, with the purpose that there is a feedback and is oriented to the local official with the necessary guidelines for the development of the activity, after that the evaluation of the activity will be done through the graphic evidence (infographics) of the different campaigns carried out by the different local societies .