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The International Labour Organization launches the sixth Global Media Competition to recognize exemplary media coverage on labour migration and fair recruitment. This year, the participants are encouraged to highlight the impact of COVID-19 on migrant workers and their families.
The competition aims to promote quality reporting on labour migration issues. It will give awards to two published media pieces.
For the first time it will also give prizes for two ‘synopses’ of stories to be developed on labour migration or fair recruitment.
This year, specific coverage of the issues related to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant workers and their families, including with respect to the non-payment of wages, will be encouraged and viewed favorably.
The “synopsis” category will be open to both professional and student journalists, and provides an opportunity to secure resources to develop an important migration story that journalists believe should be published.
The winners will be selected by a panel of experts in international migration and journalism, judged on the following criteria:
Demonstrating creativity and accuracy.
Using adequate terminology that protects migrants.
Promoting non-discrimination and highlighting the benefits of well-governed, safe labour migration, and fair recruitment.
The competition will award three prizes for professional journalists or media experts on the topic of labour migration and/or fair recruitment of migrant workers: two prizes will be awarded for a published media piece and one prize will be awarded for a synopsis.
The competition will also award one prize to a student journalist for a synopsis on the topic of labour migration and/or fair recruitment of migrant workers.
The winners will be able to choose between cash (US$1,200 in the published media piece and US$500 for the synopsis category) or a paid fellowship to participate in a course in 2021 on a fair recruitment or labour migration at the ILO’s International Training Centre.
The International Labour Organization is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice through setting international labour standards. Founded in 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and oldest specialised agency of the UN. ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 member States to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.
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