The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is going to launch the largest media training programme on a thematic issue in Pakistan’s history from today (Thursday). The event is first in a major series of 43-day trainings on improving portrayal of working women in media for over 800 journalists across Pakistan, including Federally Administered Tribal Areas, says a press release issued. Pakistani independent media and policy development and advocacy organisation Civic Action Resources, which is the ILO’s partner on the media component, will conduct media trainings. The training for the first batch of 20 journalists of all key TV channels, newspapers and radio stations from Islamabad, Rawalpindi and some adjacent districts is an outcome of a landmark media partnership established by the top media leadership of Pakistan, including owners, news managers and practitioners.
