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Herald Deputy Features Editor Roselyn Sachiti was last week conferred with the International Christian Organisation media award for reporting on women’s issues. Sachiti was presented the award during the ICOM Congress 2013 held in Panama City, Panama. ICOM is an organisation of secular and religious media.
The International Award for Women Issues honoured Sachiti for her efforts in favour of making citizens and communities conscious of women’s issues.
Her winning stories were on gender-based violence in Zimbabwe and beyond.
Runners-up in her category were Sanga Boureima from Burkina Faso and Pakistan’s Aftab Alexander Mughal. Sachiti was the only Zimbabwean journalist among the 25 winners chosen from more than 2 000 entries in eight categories.
According to ICOM secretary general Mr Joseph Calstas Chittilappilly, the award aims at bringing to light the plight of women in different parts of the world, exposing the violation of women rights, which are the fundamental rights of all human beings.
The award has been instituted to recognise exemplary and unique contributions in this field.
“We emphasise very much on face-to face meetings and encounters, exposures to events and places as an important pre-requisite for professionalism and competence.
“Our members and friends believe that such real touch and contacts are very important for all professional cooperation in our modern world where virtual tends to dominate or even replace the real,” he said.
The triennial awards honour outstanding media professionals, publications and institutions worldwide, and recognise their exemplary contributions irrespective of all differences.
Sachiti, a multiple award winning journalist was also awarded the 2013 National Journalistic and Media Awards in the Gender-based Violence Journalist of the Year and runner-up in the Features Documentary Journalist of the Year.
She has also won another international award for Reporting on Refugee Issues in 2009, among several local achievements.
The ICOM World Congress was organised under the auspices and with the collaboration of the National Council of Journalism, National College of Journalists, Union of Panamanian Journalists and other national and Central American entities.
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