| INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
youth involvement in crime and violence and TIP, will be to recognize the unique role of the media within the context of Caribbean societies. Media reports can generate meaningful real time data about the multiple potential effects of crime and violence on any particular vulnerable group. Furthermore, social media has strong potential to mobilize people, particularly young people, to reflect on issues, build consensus and to take collective action. Media outlets can bring critical attention to the issues of human trafficking and youth involvement in crime, by reporting on specific cases, trends, and the broader societal impact, the media can educate the public on issues, the legal frameworks in place to combat these issues, and the ways in which individuals and communities can get help and help to prevent the issues. Regular media coverage of how authorities are handling cases of human trafficking and youth involvement in crime serves as a public form of accountability. It ensures that law enforcement, government bodies, and NGOs remain vigilant in their efforts to combat these issues, via its groundbreaking reports based on research, evidence and facts, the media is foundational. One of the key challenges faced in the Caribbean is that often the model of journalism reflects existing policy responses to the problems of crime and violence and other citizen security-related issues based on press releases, partial information, stereotypes, quick fixes. Any effort to shift course in this field requires engaging the journalism industry at the levels of media ownership, editorial boards and individual journalists. The project therefore will encourage the countries news outlets and journalists to cover issues related to youth involvement in crime and violence and TIP from a sensitive and human rights-based perspective and build their capacity to do so in an informed, balanced, objctive and insightful manner. It will also highlight the important role played by both mainstream and social media in raising awareness of issues related to crime and violence and challenge social media practitioners to design innovative techniques for social mobilization to enhance citizen security. Countries for Media Review are: 1. Antigua and Barbuda
2. Barbados 3. Grenada 4. St. Lucia 5. St. Vincent & the Grenadines 6. Trinidad and Tobago
4 A Media Analysis of the Coverage of Youth Involvement in Crime and Violence and Trafficking in Persons (June 2021 to June 2023) in the Eastern Caribbean
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