{"id":1759,"date":"2019-01-16T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:31:54","slug":"iohr-the-first-human-rights-tv-channel-to-be-over-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/human-rights\/iohr-the-first-human-rights-tv-channel-to-be-over-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"IOHR; The First Human Rights TV Channel to be over the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The world\u2019s first television channel dedicated to human rights was launched in London on Tuesday with a promise to deliver hidden stories ignored by mainstream media into people\u2019s living rooms.<!--more--><\/h2>\n<h2><em><strong>Ariana News Agency-<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Observatory of Human Rights (IOHR) said its web-based channel would bring human rights issues to audiences in over 20 countries across Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many people in the world who cannot speak up, and it seems to be getting worse and worse,\u201d IOHR director Valerie Peay told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the official launch at London\u2019s Frontline Club, a gathering place for media.<br \/>\n\u201cYou have got a lot of niche channels out there, but so far not one dedicated to human rights. We want to bring this into people\u2019s homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Topics will include refugees, press freedom and the incarceration of journalists, extremism, women\u2019s rights, LGBT+ issues and the plight of the world\u2019s stateless people.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1761 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/ariananews.co\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in a world of 24-hour news cycles and often stories get lost and we see human rights being sidelined,\u201d Peay said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(This) is about joining up the dots so people hopefully engage with human rights and make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Programs in the pipeline will look at China 30 years after the crackdown on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, the positive and negative impacts of technology on women, and the human rights implications of Brexit, Britain\u2019s departure from the European Union in March.<br \/>\nYalda Hakim, a presenter and journalist with the BBC, told the launch event that the channel aimed \u201cto give a voice to the voiceless\u201d and \u201cto make human rights sexy\u201d in a world where attention spans were shrinking and soundbites ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasts can be viewed via the netgem.tv interactive platform and will shortly be available via a mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>Programming is in English, but IOHR eventually hopes to broadcast in other languages including Farsi, Turkish, Arabic and Russian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first television channel dedicated to human rights was launched in London on Tuesday with a promise to deliver hidden stories ignored by mainstream media into people\u2019s living rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_mat_hreflang_tags":[],"addvideo":"","video_duration":"","farsit":"","target":"0","top_stories":"0","top":"0"},"categories":[306],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-rights"],"acf":{"myctype":"change","target":false,"top_stories":false,"top":false,"farsit":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IOHR; 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