GANGTOK,: A three-day training workshop on ‘Strengthening Media and Legal
Responses to Human Trafficking in India through the Impulse Press Lab’ for
media professionals of the eight Northeast States is being organised by Impulse
NGO Network, State Partner Hope Sikkim, Media Host Partner SIKKIM EXPRESS and
Technical Media Partner East Mojo, at a local hotel in Gangtok from November 8
to 10.
The event is
supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherland.
As part of the
Impulse Model Prevention Lab, a workshop on Training of Trainers (TOT) for the
eight selected journalist from the North East and human rights lawyers
supporting the Impulse Case Management Centre will jointly be trained to
co-create legal focus intervention strengthening journalist to report on human
rights, unsafe migration leading to human trafficking and its inter-related
intersection to Climate Change.
The TOT will
then be followed with in depth reporting co-creating between journalists and
lawyers which will influence policy change, case studies that will be followed
up by Impulse Model Press Lab, the stories will be published in East Mojo,
SIKKIM EXPRESS and Impulse NGO Network website for the long term vision, which
will focus to identify Impulse Model Lab Fellow from North East India to be
part of the panel.
Netherlands
Embassy Human Rights second secretary Josephine van Zanten, who attended the
meeting virtually, stressed on the role of journalists in combating human
trafficking and the support from the Netherlands government.
New board
members from Sikkim, Tashi Rapten Barfungpa who has been appointed as the New
Chair and Board and Sonam Tenzing Bhutia as new board director, were introduced
by Impulse NGO Network chair of board Hasina Kharbhih. The board members took
charge from today.
The new board
members thanked Impulse NGO Network and pledged on working towards a better
cause.
During the
inaugural session, East Mojo editor/ Impulse Model Press Lab team leader Karma
Paljor and SIKKIM EXPRESS editor/Impulse Model Press Lab core committee member
Amit Patro were presented with awards by the hand of Former Meghalaya chief
secretary Ranjan Chatterjee, for their crucial role in implementing the Impulse
Model’s 6Ps: partnership, prevention, protection, policing, press, prosecution
and the 6Rs: reporting, rescue, rehabilitation, repatriation, re-integration
and restitution.
The technical
sessions have resource persons: Karma Paljor, clinical psychologist Dr. Kriti
Chauhan, Human Rights Alert director Loitongbam Babloo Singh, Knight Wallace
Fellow of Journalism- University of Michigan Kunal Majumder, TV9 legal editor
Ashok Bagaria, former DGP of NDRF- international expert on Human Trafficking
Matters Dr. PM Nair, East Mojo senior video editor Kalyan Deb, Frontier Manipur
editor-in-chief Dhiren A Sadokpam etc.
Impulse Model
Press Lab fellow Pari Saikia shared her experience of the fellowship.
Impulse NGO
Network (INGON) has been working in eight Northeastern States of India
including North Bengal and scale to Myanmar, Nepal, Bangladesh and Thailand.
The organization created the award winning, internationally acknowledged
Impulse Model, which is a multi-sector approach to address all issues
surrounding human trafficking and cross border migration. Before the invention
of the Impulse Model there was no other workable system in order to combat
cross border human trafficking with a holistic approach. Impulse Model has been
replicated in a range of social and cultural contexts to ensure that all human trafficking
cross border migration cases are reported, managed and transmitted to the
single window approach of stakeholders through Impulse Case Management Centre
Software.
Impulse Case
Management Centre (ICMC) serves as a portal interface between stakeholders and
effective anti-trafficking practices by enhancing and streamlining the way we
manage and track cases of human trafficking with special focus and addressing
the issues related to cybercrime, online recruitment of victims. It also
further strengthens the anti-Human Trafficking Network through increased and
continuous communication. Impulse Case Management Centre addresses the cases of
human trafficking through a single window platform.
