The role of electronic media in promoting human rights in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation (UBC)
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2014-06
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Kampala International University.College of Humanities and social science
Abstract
This research was conducted in Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC),
Kampala-Uganda on the topic “the role of the electronic media in promoting
human rights in Uganda” The research was based on the three objectives
which included; finding out how the media promotes human rights in Uganda,
establishing the challenges faced by the media in promoting human rights in
Uganda, and finding out the ways of improving media effort in promoting
human rights in Uganda.
The study established that; reporting on human rights abuse, airing of
programs with human rights content, organizing of human rights dialogues,
and carrying out research on human rights protection were the ways how the
electronic media promote human rights in Uganda. The study also found that;
inadequate resources, government attacks, poor cooperation with the public,
and lack of access to information were the challenges faced by the media in
promoting human rights in Uganda. Finally, the study found out that; fund the
media, avoid attacks on media, improve relationship with the public and avail
information to the media were the ways how the electronic media promotion of
human rights can be improved, the study found that.
Conclusions and recommendations were then made after presenting and
interpreting the data of which the researcher concluded that the electronic
media do great work in promotion of human rights but also noted that is still
high human rights in the country because the media is not freely doing better
work due to external interference from mainly the government. The researcher
recommended that total media freedom be granted, increase funding the media
among others.
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Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of a bachelors degree of Mass Communication of Kampala International University.
Keywords
Electronic, Media, Human rights, in Uganda: a case study of Uganda Broadcasting Cooperation (UBC)