The Media and Human Rights Progress Report by the Project’s Lead Researcher

Abstract

The media are more receptive to human rights issues and the human rights organisations are more able to get their stories into the media. Although this sounds obvious, it is not. Several years of learning, by human rights organisations, as well as “sensitising” by news organisations, were needed to make this situation routine. A certain cultural-historical context also plays a part, namely the end of a bipolar world system in which ideology as well as traditional national interests compete