THE Zimbabwe Gender Commission (ZGC) has urged journalists to effectively report on gender-based violence (GBV), drug and substance abuse as well as early marriages to curb the vices.
ZGC chief executive officer Virginia Muwanigwa said this while addressing journalists at a workshop convened by the commission with support from Population Solutions for Health.
“Instead of looking at specifics, think about when we have these gaps in the media, because we are journalists, we have been trained,” she said.
“We have been taught ethics ... I urge you to use those skills to report on the issues under discussion [GBV, drug and substance abuse as well as early marriages],” she said.
Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) secretary-general Perfect Hlongwane also said journalists had a duty to expose perpetrators of GBV and child marriages as well as drug peddlers.
“If you go to any newsroom, for instance, you find that there are a lot of issues around sexual violations, especially of the young girls that are coming into the newsroom from college,” he said.
“I have always said, as long as we continue to talk to those young ones, those that are victims and we leave out the perpetrators, then we are not doing anything.”
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