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By Sierra Ruth Arinaitwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Board Chairperson of the Uganda Media Women\u2019s Association (UMWA) Dr. Patricia Litho  has appealed to the media to prioritize girl child related issues while performing its agenda setting role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Litho said the media is known for its ability to influence the importance placed on topics for the public agenda. ” The media is recognized for the substantive progress made in reporting- on girl child issues such as teenage pregnancy, defilement and early marriages , however, there are still persistent gaps of imbalanced and irresponsive gender-based issue reporting,” She noted .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Litho said that conservations about the girl child issues are in most cases held during commemoration days such as the women\u2019s day- yet the concerns relating to these issues occur all the time. This was during a discussion on the role of the media in protecting the girl child at the National Symposium on the welfare and wellbeing of the \u00a0girl child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Litho talking to media practitioners <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to Dr. Litho, the media plays an important role of mobilizing against unfair practices against the girl child by getting the duty bearers to account for how they are addressing the challenges and what mechanisms  they are putting in place to curb the vices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She therefore ,urged the media to continuously highlight the laws against against violations of girls and aspects of their  wellbeing- such as the  right to education, health, food, security, social protection among others. Dr. Litho  noted that when girls are not accorded the basic essentials of life -their parents are lured to have such vulnerable children settle for early marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUse media to further tackle every character associated with girl child issues including the boys and the parent\u2019s role in ending child marriages and not just concentrating on the girl child- who is usually strongly victimized,\u201d Dr. Litho stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. Margaret Sentamu, the Executive Director of UMWA said  that victimization from irresponsible reporting by the media increases emotional violence for the victims. This is propelled by media related laws which she described as being gender irresponsive thus giving room for the  media -to stereotypically report on gender-based violence without accountability being sought by the regulator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Margaret Sentamu, the Executive Director of UMWA <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is also an issue of gender insensitive journalists which can be overcome by retooling media training through capacity building and reviewing the media training curriculum -which lack gender studies as a means of drawing journalists\u2019 attention to equity and promoting social justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She called upon the development partners to build partnerships and support the role required of the media by taking up capacity building interventions around gender-based violence reporting, research and gender media monitoring and partnerships with CSOs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhereas media is vitally needed in efforts to protect the girl child, it is urgent for development partners  to recognizing that apart from using the media as a tool  for their programmes\u2019 publicity- its rather a key partner towards shaping positive social narratives against GBV, girl child empowerment and social justice advocacy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Litho highlighted the need for mainstream media to use the advantage of the diverse media platforms especially social media which is largely used by the youth  as a means of  communication -to address issues that affect them such as teenage pregnancies and child marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost teenagers prefer social media to reading newspapers and watching news. My humble appeal to the mainstream media is to use their social media platforms to package the messages about girl child issues in a captivating way – for the young people to understand and cause change.\u201d she said while  citing UMWA and Mama FM among the media outlets that offer  platforms for  girls and the  voiceless to speak out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Sierra Ruth Arinaitwe The Board Chairperson of the Uganda Media Women\u2019s Association (UMWA) Dr. Patricia Litho  has appealed to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender-and-the-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jou--scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8568,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/umwa-awards-women-in-media-journalists-empowered-to-live-beyond-the-pay-cheque\/","url_meta":{"origin":7375,"position":0},"title":"UMWA awards Women in Media, Journalists empowered to live beyond the pay cheque","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"March 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"By Sierra Ruth Arinaitwe The Uganda Media Women\u2019s Association (UMWA) has recognized and awarded female journalists for their outstanding efforts and contributions towards shaping the country\u2019s media industry. 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