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Caucasus Media Investigations Center  has announced  the winners of the competition on the subject “Child Abuse and Protection of Child Rights” within  the  project of  “Development of  Media Investigations  in Caucasus” which is held  by the  support of  Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation.   According to the evaluation of five judges, journalist Eka Gulua from Georgian Rezonansi newspaper shared the first place with Khalid Vahidoghlu from Azerbaijani Uch Nogta newspaper. The total score of the both winners was the same.

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  Join to our media group! Azeri Media Club is the Biggest Online Group of Azerbaijani journalists. It has about 150 members from Azerbaijan and from other countries. This online club is the group that can bring Azerbaijan Media representatives and other individuals interested in the development of Media together.
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   This site has been launched to unite Caucasus journalists’ efforts against human trafficking, corruption, illegal business of narcotics, health care problems, regional conflicts  and other problems existing in Caucasus.
    Joining the efforts of the journalists can be a stimulus to the solution of the problems existing in the Caucasus. Caucasus Media Investigations Center established by several Azerbaijani and Georgian journalists

   

 

Regional Media Investigations Project

Caucasus Media Investigations Center (CMIC) is pleased to announce the start of a new regional media investigations project “Development of Media Investigations in Caucasus”

 

with the financial support of OSI AF Azerbaijan office. The project covers Azerbaijan and Georgia. The project will continue six months beginning from November 15 and CMIC will announce a competition of articles on different topics in each month.The competition will be held on specific topics announced beforehand once a month and the articles submitted to the competition should be first printed in local media. Six best stories (1 story for first place; 2 stories for second place; and 3 stories for third place) will be chosen among submitted articles at the end of each competition and they will be awarded with $550 total (first place - $200; 2 – second places each $100; and 3 – third places each $50).

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The articles should be submitted for the competitions in Russian, English or Azerbaijani languages. Information about the winning stories and their authors will be placed on the Web site of Caucasus Media Investigations Center.
Next
investigative topic is "Trafficking in person and sexual violence in Caucasus". Competition starts from January 15 and will end on February 15. Results of the each competition will be announced within 15 days after the deadline.  more                        Azeri version

participated in the training held by ICFJ in Warsaw, Poland is always open to every journalist that are trying to do something in relationship to the solution of the problems in the region.
Please, feel free to contact us if you want to

 
   

join our team. We also invite you to Join Our Yahoo Group. Azeri and Georgian journalists in this group cover human trafficking problems in Caucasus countries.

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 HUMAN TRAFFICKING

 

Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management

Every year ICFJ's Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management provides a master's level education to journalists from Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. The school is based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Click here for more information

Human Trafficking continues to be a dangerous problem in the world. According to the UN reports, every year about four million people become the victim of human trafficking in this or other way. This problem is not alien to Azerbaijan as well.
The facts of sexual abuse of women have spread all over the country.Azerbaijan is primarily a country of origin and transit for trafficked men, women, and children for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labor. 
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Meet the list of CMIC's members

 
 

International Media about us Caucasus journalists launch networking project

Journalists in the Caucasus have launched a new project aimed at coordinating their efforts to expose human trafficking, corruption, and other pressing issues in the region.       more...

 

Press Release

The Role of Media in Fighting Against Corruption and Bribery  
 

On May 11-13, 2007 GTZ-Project “Support of judicial and legal reforms in Azerbaijan” will hold another seminar for journalists. The topic of the seminar is: “Articles 6, 8, 10 of the European Convention in Human Rights and Article 1 of its 1. Additional Protocol: Legislation and practice of Azerbaijan”. The seminar will take place in Masalli.

According to the reports of International Freedom House organization, the level of corruption and bribery sill continues to be high in Caucasus countries. The importance of the problem attracts the attention of journalists from the region to this issue. The journalists investigating this problem always face danger.

Azeri, Georgian Journalists Form Investigative Network

Investigative journalists from Azerbaijan and Georgia have launched a new initiative aimed at using cross-border collaborations to expose human trafficking, corruption and other pressing issues in the region.      more...

 
 

EUROPEAN JOURNALISM FELLOWSHIPS in BERLIN

Application invited for the 9th round (Oct. 2007 to July 2008) Deadline December 15, 2006.   more...

CAUCASUS - Transit Area of Narcotics
The region is located on the main roads of the transit of narcotic means. One of these roads comes from Central Asia to Azerbaijan through the Caspian and expands to Armenia through the occupied lands of Garabagh and then finishes with Europe. The second road is the one that passes across Iran territory, which is the route of Azerbaijan-Georgia-Black Sea-European countries.

The founding journalists are currently applying to several donor organizations to help fund the project

The Caucasus Media Investigation Center formed as a result of training programs for journalists from Azerbaijan and Georgia. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), based in Washington, D.C., organized the training to help improve coverage of human trafficking. Many of the journalists from both programs ...

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The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) is a global network of more than 70 non-governmental organisations that monitor press freedom and free expression violations around the world. We circulate accurate, independently verified information on cases that involve journalists and writers being attacked or killed, government restrictions on the media's ability to report freely, and human rights activists who are targeted for exposing abuses. We issue alerts on cases involving journalists in the Caucasus region:
Azerbaijan: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/179/
Georgia: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/61550/
Armenia: http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/178/
The IFEX website is a valuable research tool, containing a searchable database of alerts dating from 1995 to the current day.
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http://www.ifex.org/

 
 

 
 

 
 

 
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Donor of the project "Development Media Investigations in Caucasus" is OSI AF Baku office.

 
   

 

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