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Insightful and Professional Coverage of War Crimes

How do we cover court cases related to war crimes in a professional way? Another three-day training for specialist media professional was held in Kyiv. Journalists and editors, participants of the IRMI and the Fondation Hirondelle project ‘Strengthening Media Resilience in Ukraine’, funded by Swiss Solidarity, are learning and improving their experience. The training is led by JusticeInfo experts.

For investigative journalist development trainings we tend to go for hot-button analytical issues. This time, for example, we discuss the destruction of civilian infrastructure, and at which point it becomes a war crime; persons missing under special circumstances; collaboration cases; challenges and progress in accountability for war-related environmental crimes, and many other topics. Ukrainian and foreign journalists, representatives of the prosecutor’s office, judges, human rights defenders – this range of experts allows participants to exchange experiences, pose any new questions to practitioners, people with extensive professional experience, who can give practical advice and help avoid mistakes. How to interview victims, whether it is possible to access public information by filing a request that will not be rejected – we hope these and other practical skills will help journalists in their daily work.

By the way, the coverage of war crimes training was delivered to mini-grants awardees last week as part of professional development support to journalists the project has been granting.

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