{"id":7394,"date":"2012-02-22T10:45:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2012-02-22T10:45:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T10:45:51","slug":"kaliati-hits-at-action-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/22\/kaliati-hits-at-action-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"KALIATI HITS AT \u2018ACTION GIRL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/entertainment-action-girl1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/entertainment-action-girl1-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"entertainment-action-girl1\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7396\" \/><\/a>Minister of Information and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati, has condemned the Weekend Times for publishing \u2018Action Girl,\u2019 popularly known as \u2018Page 8.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Kaliati said such publication is demeaning to women and that it makes young girls and women even more vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>She said this at the official launch of the Malawi Child Protection and Gender Media Network which was held at Cresta Hotel with support from Plan Malawi on February 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy pay a girl child to pose in the nude? What a shame? How would you feel to see your daughter or sister exposed like that?\u201d asked an irate Kaliati, holding a copy of the publication.<\/p>\n<p>The minister asked the journalists in attendance to fight and push for the removal of \u2018Action Girl\u2019 which she said encourages abusive tendencies in society.<\/p>\n<p>Kaliati also hailed journalists for the initiative which goes a long way to expose abusive practices and act as a call for action on such matters. She also assured journalists of government\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>She also expressed her gratitude to Plan Malawi for their support in different government development endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Enock Chibwana, chairman for the network applauded Plan Malawi for the gesture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appeal to government not to leave us alone. And Plan Malawi don\u2019t leave us on the way.\u201d Said Chibwana.<\/p>\n<p>Regional Communications and Media Relations Manager  for Plan, Regis Nyamakanga said his organisation believes in the power of the media and asked journalists to create non-exploitive content and bring various issues of abuse to policy maker\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the event, Kara Stevenson, a Canadian journalist working with Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) said she feels the launch is a big step for Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance was the chairman for the Media Council of Malawi, Patrick Semphere, and Nsanje North Parliamentarian, honourable Viyazi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Information and Civic Education, Patricia Kaliati, has condemned the Weekend Times for publishing \u2018Action Girl,\u2019 popularly known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1616,408,340,1617,868],"class_list":["post-7394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-child-rights","tag-gender","tag-lilongwe","tag-lilongwe-child-protection","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}