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The Jagaran Media Center (JMC) was set up in 2000 by journalists from the Dalit community in Nepal. The organization seeks to eliminate discrimination by providing social justice, peace, and establishing human rights.
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The Jagaran Media Center (JMC) was set up in 2000 by journalists from the Dalit community in Nepal. The organization seeks to eliminate discrimination by providing social justice, peace, and establishing human rights.
Since its establishment, JMC has been active in raising the issues of Dalits locally, nationally, and internationally. Via numerous programs, JMC creates awareness amongst Dalits and non-Dalits about caste-based discrimination. JMC uses various media to achieve its goals, including reporting and disseminating regular e-bulletins on cases of Dalit abuses. For profiles of Dalit journalists working with JMC, visit our Biographies of Dalit Journalists page.
- In 2006, Pratik Pande, from the Jagaran Media Center (JMC), told the UN Working Group on Minorities in Geneva that the government of Nepal must ensure proportional representation for Dalit and other minorities in the new democratic Nepal. This was first time that JMC had addressed the UN directly. JMC is also pressing the UN Development Program to use its aid to ensure that Dalit do not face discrimination at water taps in western Nepal.
- JMC is lobbying to get more Dalit journalists onto regional newspapers, which are highly influential in Nepal. JMC developed a journalist orientation training to create a favourable environment for Dalits to establish themselves in the mainstream media. JMC also organizes ‘Meet the Press’ programs where journalists from different publications and different areas are invited to discuss about Dalit related topics.
- JMC runs a radio program named Katwal Radio Patrika, a program based on contemporary Dalit and social issues. The goal of the Katwal radio program is to create awareness amongst Dalit and non-Dalit people about basic human rights.
- JMC publishes a feature service, called 'Jagaran Lekhmala' (Jagaran Article Series). By publishing this feature service, JMC seeks to address the lack of investigative and resourceful articles, news items, columns etc. in mainstream media.
- JMC organizes discussion programs named Face to Face which are run regularly in cooperation with the intellectuals in Nepal, including journalists, in order to focus attention on the laws, rules and regulations of the state and their current impact on the activities of the civil society towards Dalits. Other topics include the all around development as well as the social discrimination faced by the Dalits.
- JMC is producing a 25-episode TV series, Dalan, about three generations of a Dalit family in order to increase awareness about Dalit discrimination and promote social change.
- Press Releases
JMC puts out an e-bulletin, which is archived on their website. Visit AP's resources section to view the contents of each e-bulletin with links to the full stories on JMC's website.
- Reports
JMC publishes reports about their various training and workshop events.
- Blogs
In 2008, AP sends Heather Gilberds and Jes Therkelsen to work with JMC. Read Heather and Jes' blogs.
In 2007, AP sent two AP Peace Fellows to work with JMC: Ted Samuel and Devin Greenleaf. Read Ted and Devin's blogs.
In 2006, AP sent Nicole Cordeau and Stacy Spivey to work with JMC. Read Nicole and Stacy's blogs.
In 2004, Iain Guest visited Nepal and reported on caste discrimination.
- Photographs
JMC's website hosts several of the organization's pictures in their photo gallery.
- Advocacy Project News Bulletins: AP has published bulletins about BOSFAM through the news service, AdvocacyNet.
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For more information about networking with JMC, please email them.
- Website
AP Peace Fellow, Devin Greenleaf, has helped JMC build a slideshow featuring their journalists who contribute to the organization's e-bulletin.
- Connectivity
You can subscribe to JMC's e-bulletin by visiting this website.
- International Agencies: Responding to allegations raised by Dalit advocates including JMC, the UN Development Program (UNDP) adopted more stringent safeguards to ensure that lower-caste Dalits are not forced to drink from separate water taps in villages. (Dalit Advocacy in Nepal Spurs the UN to Investigate Discrimination at the Water Pump)
- Representation: JMC has won the tentative agreement with the powerful Federation of Nepali Journalists to admit more Dalit journalists.
- Reparations: Suvash Darnal, head of the JMC, trekked into the jungle to meet with a Maoist leader after 50 Dalit families were displaced by Maoists cadres from their homes. The Maoists agreed to punish those responsible and give each displaced family 12,000 rupees ($170). The JMC achievement was widely reported in the local and international press.
Contact:
Buddha Nagar,
Post Box No.19619
Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977-1-4780005
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