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Network
Identification:
Media
professionals for integrity and accountability network are a voluntary
group of active media professionals who show potential and commitment to
work under the network’s umbrella to achieve specific goals. The network
aims at:
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ensuring that work of all
media is independent
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Enhancing the role of media
in promoting and spreading values of integrity and accountability
in society
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Encouraging the public’s
role in monitoring the performance of the public sector
institutions.
Vision:
A democratic
Palestinian society where laws and legislations which enforce
transparency and accountability, as basic requirements for good
governance, are respected and protected in a matter that allows the
public to actively and objectively participate in monitoring the
performance of the public sector institutions.
Main
Goal:
To create an
anti-corruption media that confronts corruption and works to prevent its
spread in the Palestinian society, especially in the public sector
institutions.
Specific
objectives:
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To raise public awareness of
the importance of free media as a basic right of freedom of
expression.
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To build the capacities of
journalists and to improve their skills in areas such investigative
reporting as an effective means to combat
corruption.
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To act as an umbrella for
the protection of journalists who work on corruption cases.
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To encourage networks with
various media means to take part in the fight against corruption by
broadcasting/publishing information on corruption that is restricted
through other means.
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To form journalists’
pressure groups that can influence the general public opinion in the
fight against corruption through putting pressure on officials to
investigate serious corruption cases.
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To lobby for legislations
that respect and grantee protection of media professionals and
ensure freedom for journalists and journalism.
Note:
For more information, in Arabic only, on the network’s policies, plan of
action, membership and structure, please visit our site at the following
address:
www.aman-palestine.org
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