• 2018-03-02

Human rights-is a very important topic for the society and it gains even more importance alongside with raising awareness. Years ago pressing a child to eat was not considered as violence. After UNICEF published its survey and relevant media activities emerged, the society learned that it is a part of psychological pressure that impacts development of a child. This simple example shows that media has essential meaning in spreading such issues and raising public awareness. Here we introduce statistic data regarding media coverage of topic-human rights in general and in special directions.
In 2017 60 744 articles and reports were dedicated to the topic human rights. The most significant components are violence- 32 896 articles and reports and gender issues- 15 336 article and reports a year. Alongside with large-scale sectors the pressing issues in the whole media coverage are presented in the chart (in percentage rate):

During years the activities of media as well as society increased regarding the above-mentioned topics. The trend is obvious. Media coverage statistics for 3 big sectors is as follows: