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Title Mass Media and Human Rights in Pakistan: An Analysis

Author(s) Muhammad Musa Kalim

Abstract People often refer to the media as "the fourth estate," which means that they believe it to be the most important institution after the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judicial branch. People have, for a very long time, been aware of how crucial it is to protect human rights. The goal of the study was to investigate both the current state of human rights in Pakistan as well as the response of the media to this crisis (2008-2018). This investigation went all the way back to the year 2008, which was during the time that Pakistan was under the rule of the military and there were extremely serious abuses of human rights. Print media, for the most part, merely reports on current events without making any attempt to contextualise the discussion or educate readers on issues related to human rights. This is the case the vast majority of the time. As a direct result of this, the media is failing to fulfil its responsibility of eliciting compassion from the general populace for the victims of violence in the country.The laws governing the media, such as the PEMRA, Press Council, Defamation, and Press Registration laws, should be examined to determine whether or not they are in accordance with Article 19A of the Constitution, also known as the Eighteenth Amendment.Portions of the Telecom Act, the Telegraph Act, the Post Office Act, and the PPC that restrict access to information must be reviewed and amended in order to be in line with the intent of Article 19A of the Constitution. In short, concerns regarding human rights that are brought up in the media are important to people, yet there is not a lot of in-depth reporting on these topics in Pakistan. There is a dearth of knowledge and training among journalists, which makes it difficult for them to investigate and report on issues related to human rights. Concerns of human rights are covered by a relatively small fraction of journalists. The rest of them either don't care or aren't sure what to think about these kinds of things. The setting isn't exactly terrible by any means.

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Faculty Social Sciences

Department Pakistan Studies

Language English

Publication Date 2024-06-04

Subject Pakistan Studies

Publisher Muhammad Musa Kalim

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