A three day media training program aimed at capacity building of journalists to cover themes of gender equality in the work environment concluded here at a local hotel on Wednesday. Journalists from the print media, television (TV) channels and radio participated in the 3-day training workshop in order to learn the importance of raising the profile of reporting on gender and labor related issues and sharing their experiences regarding the subject. The training, built around International Labor Organization’s (ILO) standards and conventions to promote decent work agenda for women, trained a cadre of working journalists to promote good working conditions and environment for working women. The initiative would train 800 journalists from 28 districts of the country through 35 training programs spread over a course of one year. Through the training program, ILO hoped to improve the coverage of working women, bringing about a nuanced and sensitive portrayal of working women in the media.
