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- Title
HUMAN RIGHTS AND MEDIA: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY ON NORTH KOREA.
- Authors
Kirby, Michael
- Abstract
Increasingly UN human rights mandate-holders are engaging with diverse modern media to enhance the effectiveness of their work. There are dangers and difficulties in doing so. However modern media can be a useful ally in the work of the UN by raising awareness of grave crimes and violations; engaging with and empowering victims of abuse; and encouraging demands that investigations will be followed by action and accountability. This article, based on the experience of the UN inquiry into North Korea explains the COI's methodology; examines the adoption and features of its media plan; outlines a number of suggested basic rules to be observed by UN inquiries; identifies modalities of news management; and predicts likely future developments inherent in new media technology. The author insists that news coverage is not an end in itself but a means to help attain the human rights goals of the inquiry and of the UN.
- Subjects
NORTH Korea; HUMAN rights violations; MASS media &; technology; GOVERNMENTAL investigations; UNITED Nations Human Rights Council; UNITED Nations. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; HUMAN rights
- Publication
Denning Law Journal, 2014, Vol 26, p1
- ISSN
0269-1922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5750/dlj.v26i0.925