If you or your colleagues, friends,  students are involved in covering/ filming/ broadcasting/ researching conflict areas including rallies and pickets, you might want to know what your editors and supervisors are obliged to provide you to ensure safety. Find out here:

If you or your colleagues, friends,  students are involved in covering/ filming/ broadcasting/ researching conflict areas including rallies and pickets, you might want to know what your editors and supervisors are obliged to provide you to ensure safety. Find out here:

NEW! You’re invited: 3-hr interactive compressed course on International Law Conventions for the Protection of Journalists in Conflict Areas and International Guidelines on the Safety of Journalists Covering War Zones and “dangerous areas” including areas where there is an ongoing hostage-taking situation or an area that may be the site of clashes or a police/military operation such as rallies, pickets, etc., and “undeclared” conflict areas such as the “grey zone” areas of the West Philippine Sea, November 25, 2023, Saturday, 1pm-4pm, Zoom, under special topics of the J270 class. All journalists, media personnel, media educators, researchers, students who may be involved in the coverage of conflict areas including rallies, pickets, etc. are invited: Pls contact the UPCMC Dept of Journ to get the Zoom numbers at     journdept.upd@up.edu.ph  or at 8981-8500 local 2672. See you on Saturday! (this is a “bonus” discussion of special topics under J270 of the UPCMC) 

Topics include:
1.Introduction
What is international law? What are the sources of law in international law?
International law as part of Philippine law.
2.Basic international law conventions

3.Reporting on Armed conflict: International Humanitarian Law
Basic International Law Conventions: Provisions on the Protection of Journalists in Conflict Areas
Case Studies: Oct 7 Hamás attack on Israel where Hamas killed more than 1,400 civilians and the continuing hostage-taking and hostage-detention by Hamas, and
Israel indiscriminate bombings of civilians and civilian facilities in Gaza and Israel forces killing more than 12,000 civilians

4.International Law and International Guidelines on the Protection of Media Personnel Covering and Reporting on Conflict including:
The 2016 International Declaration on the Protection of Journalists
and the 2015 Safety Guide for Journalists working in High Risk Environments

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