The Killid Group and the Crimes of War Project have come together in a year long partnership to raise awareness on international human rights and humanitarian laws and investigate violations.
The project is funded by the Open Society Institute (OSI) and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
The project aims to improve the understanding of human rights and international humanitarian law and report incidents of violations by producing and disseminating in-depth media content nationally and internationally. The messages would be aimed at reaching journalists, politicians/decision-makers, civil society, human rights defenders and the general public.
The overarching goal of the project is to ensure that violators of human rights are made accountable for their (mis)deeds. The project will address the existing informational and awareness gap and pave the way for informed public debate and greater pressure to prevent breaches of the law, and to punish perpetrators. A key objective is to lower the public’s level of tolerance of rights violations and end the prevailing culture of impunity.
The Killid Group and Crimes of War Project have been collaborating on human rights and international humanitarian law training and awareness raising initiates since 2006. In October 2006 the Crimes of War Project in partnership with The Killid Group implemented a 3-day training that was focused on improving the understanding of human rights and international humanitarian law among journalists and editors, highlighting the challenges of reporting from conflict areas, spotting and reporting violations and accountability for rights violations and the role of media.
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