Source: UN Development Programme, Government of Lebanon, European Union
Country: Lebanon
The “Journalists’ Pact for strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon” was signed by 34 media institutions in 2013 and was drawn up based the media outlets’ input with the support of the UNDP “Peace Building in Lebanon” project. It reaffirms the Lebanese media’s leading role in rejecting discrimination and promoting civil peace and covers media ethics, duties of journalists and media institutions, media professionalism and a total of 16 articles ranging from respecting the rule of law to the rejection of racial discrimination, social responsibility, the respect for people's dignity, treating information with accuracy and others.