ILO launches global media competition on labour migration
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launched its fifth annual Global Media Competition, themed “fair recruitment and the future of labour migration”, aiming to recognise exemplary media coverage of the issue.
Hanoi (VNA) - The International Labour Organization (ILO) has launchedits fifth annual Global Media Competition, themed “fair recruitment and thefuture of labour migration”, aiming to recognise exemplary media coverage ofthe issue.
For the first time, the competition has astudent prize category with a fellowship, according to the ILO office inVietnam.
The competition aims to promote quality reportingon labour migration issues, as balanced and ethical reporting can play animportant role in addressing stereotypes and misconceptions, and inhighlighting the positive contributions migrant workers make in their home anddestination countries.
The competition contributes to some of the targets of the recently adopted Global Compact for Safe,Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact for Refugees, which include improving working conditions formigrant workers and changing misperceptions of labour migration. It also helpsraise awareness on decent work and migration, a topic which features stronglyin the United Nations Declaration on the 2030 Agenda for SustainableDevelopment.
Candidates must complete the online entry form in either ‘professional’ or ‘student’ category. Theycan submit their pieces as written article, photo essay, multimedia, videoand/or radio.
To qualify, entries must have been publishedbetween November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2019. A submission in any language iswelcome, however an English, French or Spanish translation must be included ifthe submitted material or parts of it are in another language.
The deadline for submissions, via the online entry form, is October 31, 2019 (23:59, Central European Time).
Competition winners will be announced on December18, 2019 - International Migrants Day.
The competition will award four professionalprizes (two in the category “fair recruitment of migrant workers” and two for“the future of labour migration” category) and one student prize.
The winners will be able to choose between cash (1,000 USD in the professionalcategory and 300 USD for the student category) or a paid fellowship toparticipate in an ITC-Turin course on a fair recruitment or labour migration topicin 2020./.
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