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Training on Enhancing Press Freedom and media capacity in rural Bangladesh, a small project under International Program of Development Communication – IPDC. UNESCO – India, is being implemented by Mass-line Media Centre (MMC). This training program gives emphasis on gender sensitive & children rights based reporting at local levels. Grassroots and local journalists are the main participants of this training. Participants produced 5 (five) field based group reports as training activities. All the reports are gender and children rights related.

A training of IPDC conducted at Barisal on 24-26 February 2007. Five field based group reports of IPDC training of Barisal as issue;

1)	Children rntertainment at classroom
2)	Women’s rights to vote
3)	Women’s fertility and health services
4)	Women’s labor and discrimination
5)	Risky child labor

A training of IPDC conducted at Feni on 11-13 March 2007. Five field based group reports of IPDC training of Feni as issue;

1)	Child education,
2)	Women’s Education,
3)	Women’s Leadership,
4)	Health of Sweeper Children,
5)	Women’s Labor

A training of IPDC conducted at Noakhali on 15-17 March 2007. Five field based group reports of IPDC training of Noakhali as issue;

1)	Decision making process of women at Charmajid,
2)	Women’s at agriculture,
3)	Birth registration: peoples participation,
4)	Working children and seasonal labor,
5)	Women’s market at char area

A training of IPDC conducted at Patuakhali on 22-24 April 2007. Five field based group reports of IPDC training of Patuakhali as issue;

1)	Education stipend: changed scenario of rural women,
2)	Increasing risky child labor,
3)	Mental health care,
4)	Successful primary education program at Dumki Upozila,
5)	Present situation of Potuakhali brothel

The reports produced by the trainee’s of IPDC training held on May 2007 at Bagerhat district

1)	Women deprived from health-service at Bagerhat railway slum,
2)	Women Education and Employment,
3)	Multiple problem of the children of Bagerhat brotheld,
4)	Health of Bagerhat Railway Slum Children threatened,
5)	Women Labor and Discrimination

A training of IPDC conducted at Pirojpur on 08-10 May 2007. Five field based group reports of IPDC training of Pirojpur as issue;

1)	Child Harassment
2)	Liberty of Women's voting rights
3)	Deprived rights of education of Vandaria Char
4)	Risks of Jele child
5)	Domestic women hazardous