Child's Right to privacy, the Best Interest of the Child and the Media

Stevanović, Ivana (2018) Child's Right to privacy, the Best Interest of the Child and the Media. Journal of Eastern-European Criminal Law (1). pp. 108-122. ISSN 2360-4964

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Abstract

In this paper, the author analyses the media normative framework in the Republic of Serbia relevant for the protection of child's privacy and dignity in the context of child’s right to privacy in the media space. The author insists on the standpoint that the interest of the child to be protected, including child's right to privacy, is above all other interests and takes precedence over the public interest to receive information that includes personally identifiable information about a child and his/her family, which could damage his/her dignity and psychological integrity. The paper is also focused on presenting some relevant data from the study: “Media Reporting on Child Labour in the Republic of Serbia“. The selection of keywords and categories for the quantitative and qualitative content analysis of media reports covers the period from 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016. It was carried out in cooperation with Kliping, a media monitoring and analysis agency in Belgrade. In the analysed period, the mentioned agency's archive contained 703,438 articles from the print media, 223,408 from Internet portals and 146,996 television reports.

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