Human Rights Journalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

   PDF

2. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism

   1. Introduction: Background and Scope of Human Rights Journalism

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 1-21

3. Human Rights Journalism and Alternative Models: Critical Conceptual and Comparative Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-24

      PDF

   2. Human Rights Journalism: A Critical Conceptual Framework

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 25-42

   3. Critical Comparative Analyses of Human Rights Journalism, Peace Journalism, Global Journalism and Human Rights Reporting

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 43-60

   4. Citizen, Public and Peace Journalisms: Towards the More Radical Human Rights Journalism Strand

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 61-81

   5. The Dynamics and Challenges of Reporting Humanitarian Interventions

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 82-102

4. Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Physical Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

      PDF

   2. The ‘us only’ and ‘us + them’ Frames in Reporting the Sierra Leone War: Implications for Human Rights Journalism

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 105-121

   3. ‘Operation Restore Hope’ in Somalia and Genocide in Rwanda

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 122-143

   4. The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention and Human Wrongs Journalism: The Case of Kosovo versus Sierra Leone

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 144-162

5. Human Rights Journalism and the Representing of Structural and Cultural Violence

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-164

      PDF

   2. The Politics of Development and Global Poverty Eradication

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 165-180

   3. The EU-Africa Lisbon Summit and ‘the Global Partnership for Africa’

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 181-201

   4. Reporting Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK: The Myths and the Facts

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 202-226

   5. Conclusion: A Case for Human Rights Journalism and Future Directions

      • Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

      Pages 227-240

6. Back Matter

   Pages 241-281

   PDF

Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention.

• human rights
• intervention
• journalism
• politics
• poverty
• violence
• media research

'The perceptive analysis presented on these pages highlights the basis for a radical reconsideration of some of our most familiar assumptions. It does so in a manner alert to journalism's shortcomings but also to its remarkable potential to foster points of emphatic connection at a distance. In this way, Shaw's intervention inspires us to reinvigorate our efforts to develop productive ways forward, to re-imagine new possibilities in the search for compassionate reporting respectful of the human dignity of others.' - Stuart Allan, Bournemouth University, UK

IBRAHIM SEAGA SHAW is Senior Lecturer at the University of Northumbria, UK. With a background in journalism spanning 26 years in Sierra Leone, Britain and France, he edited Sierra Leone's award winning Expo Times newspaper in the mid 1990s. He holds a PhD from the Sorbonne and is co-editor of Expanding Peace Journalism (2011).

Policies and ethics