KATHMANDU: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged the government and media houses to ensure the rights of working journalists to employment and honor their labor by providing ‘decent’ remuneration to them in the context when they are working amid COVID-19 pandemic.
The Commission has today written to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to provide ‘decent’ remuneration to working journalists.
“People’s fundamental right to have the right information will be affected due to failure to create an environment conducive for journalists to collect the right information. The Working Journalists Act also states that there will not be any changes in perks and facilities in a way that working journalists are affected,” read a statement issued today by the Commission’s secretary Bed Prasad Bhattarai.
Comment