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Dublin based production company Esras Films is to host an International Media Seminar on Human Rights in Hong Kong at the end of May. The seminar will bring together leading authorities on Human Rights and internationally respected broadcasters and journalists.
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former Hong Kong correspondent Fergal Keane. Keane, in his 14 years with the BBC has reported from some of the world's major trouble spots. He has won a string of awards for his hard-hitting, often moving reports, particularly his coverage of the aftermath of the massacre at Nyarubuye church in Rwanda. Esras MD Peter Kelly will be participating in the discussion alongside other panellists including politician and former Journalist Emily Lau and Basil Fernando, the Sri Lankan born Director of the Asian Human Rights Commission.
The seminar aims to stir debate between journalists, broadcasters and NGO’s, with a focus on the issue of human rights reporting in the media, on whose responsibility it is to report on these issues, and whose agenda is being reported.
Esras Films produces TV news stories (‘Blood Diamonds’, ‘African Mine Clearance’) on behalf of the EU that are shown by stations around the world and the Hong Kong seminar is part this work. Key questions to be raised will be ‘whose responsibility human rights programming is?’ ‘Can organisations with an obvious agenda, like the EU, have a role to play in getting these stories on to the airwaves?’
Esras (formerly Radharc Films) (www.esras.com) is recognised for its quality television production making international documentary features and ground breaking current affairs coverage. Over four decades reports have featured many of the world’s trouble spots, - Biafra (Nigeria), El Salvador, Chile, The Philippines, Nicaragua, Poland, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Haiti, Burma, etc. Most recently Esras produced ‘The Search for Tristan’s Mum’, that reunited foreign adopted Tristan Dowse with his natural mother, a story that created headline news.
The Seminar will take place in Hong Kong on the 23rd of May. For further info visit www.eurworldtv.com/seminar/
