The Monitoring of the coverage of Human Right Issues in

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Second report
June 2012
Iraq- Kurdistan region
The Monitoring of the coverage of
Human Right Issues in Kurdish Media outlets
Implemented project:
Kurdish Institute for Elections KIE
In cooperation with:
International Media Support (IMS)
Kurdish Institute for Elections (KIE)
Address: Iraq- Sulaimany, Bakhtiary , Hakary street No113, House No. 44
Tel: +964 53 3187111
E-mail: [email protected]
Mobile:+964 07701573210
www.kie-ngo.org
Coverage duration: (April 1st – May 31th , 2012 )
Kurdish Institute for Elections KIE is a non-governmental and
autonomous organization, independent in its functioning and
decision-making process. It was founded in 2002 in Iraq.
It aims at promoting election education of the citizens and fostering
individuals’ political participation via the polling systems.
Human Rights Issue in Kurdish media outlets
Media outlets covered in the project
SN
Newspapers
1
Awene
Khandan,@www.xendan.org
NRT TV.@
Nawa@
2
Hawlati
Sbeiy, www.sbeiy.com
KNN TV.
Nawkho@
3
Livin
Peyamner, www.peyamner.com
4
Rudaw
Komalnews, www.komalnews.net
5
Kurdistani
Nwe
6
Hawler
7
Rewan
8@@
2
Websites
Satellite TV
Zagros TV.@
Radio
Yakgrtu@
Zhiyanawa
Kurdistan Region - Iraq
June 2012
@@@@@@Preamble:
The gender issue was the main subject in the first series of our reports, the current one addresses the human rights issue in
eighteen different types of Kurdish press including Newspapers, magazines, Radio, satellite channels and Websites. This report
considers data and charts to highlight the amount of attention and importance of human rights to different variety of media in
the last two months (April and May 2012). This task has been carried out by a team of Kurdish Ins3tute for Elec3on.
The purpose of this observation is to review the frequency of coverage of the human right related cases in different networks.
In doing so, the occurrence of the prosecution and the order of the importance of each article have been encountered.
Human right issues have a strong correlation with political, economical, cultural and public quarries. The covenants on human
rights in 1966 on poli3cal, civil, economic, social and cultural rights by the United Na3ons are the evidence of that connection.
According to the method which is used in this report, there is a list of seventeen categories of human rights (look at table 17).
The news would be counted as the one which highlights the human rights issue if at least one of these categories was
mentioned by it otherwise it will not be considered.
This report confirms that the Kurdish press has not recognized the human rights issue as a serious matter. However, the level of
importance of the issue varies from one media to another. Satellite channels, Radio, Newspapers and Websites are the order of
the press types that have validated the issue the most.
Finally, we would like to confirm that the only purpose of the monitoring team is to show the extent in which media takes the
matter of human rights seriously and we hope that this encourages them to recognize this topic as a significant concern. @
Project Objectives
• Identify the extent of media coverage of interest in Human rights issues.
• Encourage media outlets in Kurdistan to play a more positive role in addressing Human rights issues in the region.
• Strengthening the role of civil society organizations in monitoring media outlets coverage of Human rights issues in Kurdistan.
• The capacity building of staffs specialized in monitoring media outlet coverage of Human rights issues.
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Project Method
The following methods were adopted in collecting data about Human rights issues coverage in media outlets in Kurdistan:
1. Monitoring forms:
Monitoring forms to observe Press, TV, Radio and electronic media outlets. The main objective of those forms are
identifying information about Human rights issues in the news and putting them in a numerical format through a
guideline that was prepared specifically for this purpose.
2. the selection of a number of TV, radio and electronic media outlets:
A number of criteria were used in the selection process:
The ease of access to the media outlet.
The impact of the media on a large base of audience.
The heterogeneity of the ownership, language, political orientation, audience
and geographical distribution.
Covered Human rights areas:
In this section, we focus on the results of the data that were presented in the forms in order to analyze the following four areas:
1. to what extent the media covered Indicates to the human right issues.
2. At what level the media coverage concerned with human rights issues (local, National and International).
3. To what extent did the media coverage focused on the Human right issues.
4. To what extent the media has additional analysis on Human right issues.
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Mechanisms of implementation
First: Preparation stage
Second: Implementation stage
Participating staff's at several
workshops for:
1. increasing their knowledge and
awareness about human right issues.
2. How they can fill out the categories
of the monitoring form according to
the project method.
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1. Recording of three satellite channels and three
Radio stations daily with archive.
2. Obtaining of 8 newspapers and 4 websites
per a day.
3. Covering 18 media outlets for 2 months
(April 1st –May31th, 2012) by the project
method.
3. Entering these data that will be registered by
data entry.@
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Third: Reporting Sage:
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The data entered by the data entry
person were analyzed to:
1. Prepare the report at the end of the
stage.
2. Conduct a press conference for the
media in Kurdistan region in general and
those media outlets that were covered
in the monitoring process in particular to
inform them about the results of the
project.
1.
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A view of the staff's team during covering media outlets
Presenting human right issues to the monitors team
March28, 2012
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May 15, 2012
A view of a press conference by the monitor's team
March 26, 2012
June 2012
Data Analysis of the results of Human rights issues in media outlets@@
First: Human right issues in the covered newspapers:
The project monitored 7 newspapers and 1 magazine throughout the 2 months of monitoring process. The monitoring didn’t occur
on the days that the newspaper or magazine was not issued for obvious reasons. The newspapers are issued as follows:
Two daily newspapers (Kurdistani Nwe and Hawler).
Two weekly newspapers (Awene and Rudaw).
One twice a week newspaper (Hawlati).
One every 15 days (Rewan).
One every 10 days (Lvin magazine).
In each newspaper and magazine 12-14 news were observed. The first and the third page were taken as a standard choice. If those
two pages didn’t contain enough information or news, the page containing information about Human right issues was used as the
source of information. If that didn’t work, the second page was used as the reference page.
The monitoring process didn’t consider sport news, opinion articles, editorials, advertisement, pictures, caricatures, and weather
forecasts. The daily newspapers had more news compared to the weekly or those issued fortnightly.
Obviously the results of the monitoring process were as follows:
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Zhiyanawa
Awene
Rwdaw
Rewan
Livin
Hawler
Hawlati
Kurdistani
Total
Average
Total News
Pieces
9
9
9
4
6
52
18
53
160
20
Between Issues
number
512 -503
329 -320
213 -205
257-253
199 -193
1349 -1297
840 -822
5793 -5740
160
20
Total News
Monitored
Addressed
Human right
Issues
Didn't Addressed
Human right Issues
Rate of Human
right Issue
Coverage
113
123
122
48
68
645
246
718
2083
260.30
59
52
49
16
20
130
45
114
485
60.6
54
71
73
32
48
515
201
604
1598
199.75
52.2%
42.2%
40.1%
33.3%
29.4%
20.15%
18.2%
15.9%
23.2%
23.2%
The results of the monitoring process
on Human right issues
Newspapers
@
@
@
Based on the criteria described above, the data shows that among 2083 newspaper's news, only 485 addressed or referred to Human right
issues and that consists a 23.2% of the total media coverage of the 8 media outlets covered in the monitoring process while 1598 didn't
addressed or referred to Human right issues and that consists a 76.7% of the total media coverage and that is obviously a low coverage rate.
Among the media outlets covered, Zhiyanawa was the newspaper that covered most of the Human right issues coverage and kurdistani new
was the newspaper that covered least in the media outlets considered.
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Second: Human right issues in the covered satellite's channels:
Three satellite Kurdish channels were covered throughout the monitoring process daily from 6-12pm. One main news program of
each of those channels was monitored regardless of whether those news programs covered local, national or international news. It
should be mentioned that none of the sport news, advertisement, photos, caricatures or weather forecasts were monitored in the
process, unless present in the news program itself. The results of the data analysis are as follows:
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satellite's
channels
Total News
Pieces
Total News
Monitored
Addressed
Human right
Issues
Didn't Addressed
Human right
Issues
Rate of
Human right
Issue
Coverage
NRT TV.
53
1033
517
516
50.04%
@
KNN TV.
52
1314
409
905
31.02%
@
Zagros TV.
52
595
40
555
6.72%
Total
157
2942
966
1976
32.8%
Average
52.3
980.66
321.3
658.6
32.8%
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As it is clear from the table, among 2942 satellite's news, only 966 referred to human right issues, and that consists a 32.8% of the
total media coverage of the 8 media outlets covered in the monitoring process. On the other hand 1976 news pieces didn't
addressed or referred to Human right issues which consists a 67.2% of the total media coverage.
Among the covered media outlets, (NRT TV.) was the satellite channel that covered most of the Human right issues coverage and
(Zagros TV.) was the satellite channel that covered least of the media outlets considered.
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Third: Human right issues in the covered Websites:
As it is shown from the below table, four Kurdish websites were covered throughout the monitoring process daily from 12-5 PM,
each of them including (12-14) news. It should be mentioned that none of the sport news, advertisement, photos, caricatures or
weather forecasts were monitored in the process, unless present in the news program itself.
The results of the data analysis are as follows:
Total News
Pieces
Total News
Monitored
Addressed
Human right
Issues
Didn't Addressed
Human right
Issues
Rate of Human
right Issue
Coverage
Sbeiy
53@
742@
196@
546@
26.4%@@
Payamner
53@
727@
125@
602
17.2%@@
Khendan
53@
636
69
567
10.8%
Komalnews
53@
672@
64@
608@
9.52%@@
@
Total
212@@
2777@@
454@@
2323@@
16.34%
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Average
53
694.25@@
113.5
580.75@@
16.34%
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Websites
As it is clear from the table, among 2777 website's news, only 454 addressed or referred to human right issues, and that consists a
16.34% of the total media coverage of the 4 media outlets covered in the monitoring process. It means that 83.66% news pieces
didn't addressed or referred to Human right issues of the total media coverage.
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Human right issues in the covered Websites
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Third: Human right issues in the covered Radio stations:
Three Kurdish radio stations were covered throughout the monitoring process daily from 11-14 PM, and entire of their news
pieces have been recovered without of the sport news, advertisement, photos, caricatures or weather forecasts, unless present in
the news program itself. The results of the data analysis are as follows:
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Radio
stations
Total
News Pieces
Total News
Monitored
Addressed
Human right
Issues
Didn't
Addressed
Human right
Issues
Rate of
Human right
Issue Coverage
Yakgrtu
53
432
124
308
28.7%@@
Nawkho
53@
316@
88@
228@
27.8%
Nawa
57
331@
54
277
16.3%
@
Total
163
1079@@
266
813
24.65%@@
@
Average
54.3
359.6
88.6
271@@
24.65%
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As it is clear from the table, among 1079 news at the three mentioned radio stations only 266 addressed or referred to human right
issues, and that consists 24.65% of the total media coverage of the 3 media outlets covered in the monitoring process. It means
that 813 news that consists 75.35% news pieces didn't addressed or referred to Human right issues of the total media coverage.
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Fi3h: Results of 18 monitored Newspapers concerning to kinds of human rights
Newspapers
S
N
Yakgrtu
Peyamner
Komalnews
Sbeiy
Xendan
516
555
277
228
308
602
608
546
567
Not discrimination (Gender, Language, religion, opinion …etc)
2
0
0
2
2
3
0
9
3
7
12
2
0
7
3
3
2
0
2
Right to life (death penalty, genocide)
3
2
3
12
3
13
0
6
46
35
4
14
8
35
17
29
41
9
3
No torture, physical and mental (degradation treatment of prisoners)
5
0
0
0
1
1
0
5
3
17
1
2
2
3
0
6
3
2
4
Right to liberty (No slavery, no trafficking, no forced labour, liberty
and security of people)
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
9
2
1
0
1
3
0
7
0
5
Equality in the law (access to justice, fair trial, no retroactive penal
law, presumption of innocence)
5
16
1
7
2
10
2
12
82
75
0
6
10
17
28
2
39
8
6
Right to self determination
4
0
0
2
0
12
1
13
6
6
2
3
1
3
1
1
5
4
7
Freedom of expression
0
0
0
2
1
1
0
1
20
15
0
1
2
10
11
1
15
3
8
Freedom of belief, opinion and thought
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
5
2
4
0
0
1
4
0
0
0
1
9
Right to participation to public life
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
7
0
4
2
4
0
1
7
3
10.
Freedom of association
0
1
3
2
0
1
0
5
3
4
0
0
2
3
8
0
13
0
11
Right to work, food, education and health
0
10
1
6
11
28
0
27
123
194
8
5
32
21
15
12
22
4
12
Minorities’ rights
8
4
0
4
2
13
0
5
28
41
3
4
8
0
9
1
7
2
13
Women’s rights
3
9
2
0
29
2
12
2
4
12
1
2
1
1
11
1
4
5
14
Refugees’ rights
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
5
1
11
0
2
5
3
2
0
6
2
15
Children’s rights
2
0
0
3
2
1
0
0
2
7
1
0
0
2
2
1
5
1
16
More and different human rights
9
7
6
2
6
4
1
34
19
53
6
8
9
10
15
6
17
25
17
Other (only as last resort& explain)
1
Total
15
NRT TV
905
KNN TV
515
Hawler
32
Rewan
604
Kwrdistani
Nwe
54
Zhianawa
73
Rwdaw
48
Not present human right issues
Livin
71
0
Awene
201
Hawlati
Nawkho
Websites
Nawa
Radio stations
Zagros TV
Present rights
Satellite channels
1
1
1
7
0
25
0
1
62
20
0
0
5
0
0
0
3
0
246
123
68
122
113
718
48
645
1312
1033
595
331
316
432
727
672
742
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Sixth: The Relative Percentage of Human right Coverage among Different Medias:
Given that there are different attributes related to different media outlets, the percentage of media coverage of
human right issues were used as is shown in the following chart:
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Conclusions:
This report demonstrates that the Kurdish press does not recognize
the human rights as a serious matter. However, in relation to the
gender issue, the human rights issue has a higher coverage. The
reason could be due to the fact that there are seventeen categories of
human rights which covered in this report.
There was an assumption that the high number of categories in this
report can highlight seventeen quarries to give the expectation of high
coverage but that was not the case. The conclusions show that with
the half of the monitored news, in different levels, lower except
satellite channel NRT takes the human rights issue as a main one and
reaches 50%. @
There are many reasons to dismiss the importance of the issue, yet
there are two obvious reasons:
The fire reason: the press channels believe that the political and
economical issues are the easiest targets to get the public attention. @
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Responsibility:
Carrying out this report
puts an extra burden on
the press channel and
media workers to take
the human rights issue
much more seriously. It is
the duty of civil society
organizations to inform
the press in which this
report is one of the
attempts in that regard.@
The second reason: the human right is a new concept in our society
and the press has not understood the significant nature of the issue.
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Project staffs
• Aram Jamal Sabir: Project Manager
• Hallsho Abdulfatah: project coordinator
Note:
• Lana Muhammad: Data entry & analyzer
The next stage of the project is
monitoring election issues for
the same media outlets.
Observer Team
Monitoring duration:
(1/7-31/8/2012)
1- Nsar Muhammad Ali
2- Wriya Fatah
3- Rizgar Latif
4- Razwan Abubakr
5- Kozheen Aladdin
6- Hersh Abdullah
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The Monitoring of the coverage of Human Right Issues in

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