Monday, June 25, 2012

UNESCO Releases Bilingual Handbook For Cambodian Journalists

PHNOM PENH, June 25 (Bernama) -- The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has released a bilingual handbook teaching Cambodian journalists how to report news relevant to food security and nutrition.

Xinhua news agency reports the Khmer and English guidebook highlights the general concept of food security and nutrition in simple language for journalists and policy makers to understand.

"The handbook will serve as an essential tool to help guide and enhance the journalists' knowledge for accurate reporting and advocating issues such as child mortality, children and women's health, nutrition and food security," said Cambodia UNESCO director Anne Lemaistre at the book's launching.

"It will allow policy makers to access a wide variety of resources and information to guide them on key issues and to lead them to important information sources," Lemaistre said.

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said the handbook will contribute towards helping Cambodia achieve the Millennium Development Goals in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and improving maternal health.

--BERNAMA

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