Mr Abdellah Boussouf, secretary general of the Council of the Moroccans living abroad (CCME) said in his opening’s speech during the meeting around the third Press Prize of the Southern Provinces on Saturday, December 10, 2016, on the theme ” Media and Migration”, that migration and the moroccan journalists living abroad should be part of public policies.
The Secretary General of the CCME, said that migration is going through a difficult economic period adding the importance of the impact of the media on the image of migrants. He was critical about the way the media covered this issue and fuels stereotypes.
“Today we celebrate the International Human Rights Day (10 december) in a world where freedom of movement and freedom of expression are experiencing great regressions and where politicians in major democracies promise to expel migrants and build Walls at the borders”, he said.
The Secretary General of the CCME said about the southern provinces: “we are in the Sahara, a place of migration and where cultures and civilizations have produced the Hassani language, a mixture of Arabic and Amazigh which expresses the identity of this region which is in a constant evolution “.
There are numerous works of the CCME on migration in the media and in the contribution of Moroccan journalists living abroad. In 2010, the Council presented a hearing at the National Dialogue “Media and Society”, before the Parliamentary Committee responsible for the national debate on the press. February 2011, the CCME organized the first conference of Moroccan journalists of the world with the participation of 200 journalists including 120 Moroccan journalists from around the world. A workshop on “How to build a media strategy on immigration? ” was also organized in Rabat in 2015 for the journalists and launched the” Media and Migration Master » in partnership with the Higher Institute of Information and Communication (ISIC) .
The meeting was organized by The Sahara Press Club from 9 to 11 December 2016 in partnership with the Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), Laâyoune Sakia-Al-Hamra region, the Ministry of Communication, the Southern Agency and the National Council of Human Rights.
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