Jagaran Media Center (JMC)

About us

Jagaran Media Center (JMC) is a non-governmental organization established in 2000 by journalists from the Dalit community in Nepal. The Organization advocates eliminating caste-based discrimination, promoting a more equitable, inclusive and accountable democracy, promoting environmental justice and sustainable disaster risk reduction through media mobilization.

Vision: Building an equitable society

Mission: To work for ending all forms of discrimination and for building an equitable society through mass media.

Development Objective/Goal (Impact): Building an inclusive, just and fully human rights compliant society.

Directive Principles:
• Campaign for human rights: JMC will respect all rights-based movements and be actively involved in ensuring Dalit rights.
• Collaborative work culture: JMC will promote a collaborative work culture while respecting ethinic, religious and cultural diversity
• Freedom of expression: JMC will respect and promote the Rights to Information, Right to commnication and Media freedoms
• Scientific culture: JMC will engage in ending entrenched traditions and superstitions and work towards developing a facts based scientific culture
• Gender Equality: JMC will internalize and promote gender equality and inclusion
• Democratic values and principles: JMc will internalize and promote democratic values, accountability and transparency.

Programs:
• Dalit Research Center: The JMC is proud to host one of the leading centers for Dalit information in Nepal. The Dalit Research and Resource Center hosts many of the books, articles and research studies linked to the Dalit movement. As JMC documents and follows cases of Dalit rights violations around the country, the Research and Resource Center as collection of this information has enabled the media to make these cases public.
• Dalit Human Rights: With the motive of ensuring protection of Dalit human rights, JMC advocates and lobbies through its Human Rights Department. This department documents violation of Dalit human rights, disperses the news through mainstream and local media, conducts field visits to monitor the cases, organizes meetings with Dalit-rights based organizations and creates pressure to ensure justice to the victim and prosecute the perpetrators through proper legal channels.
• Peace, Democracy and Good Governance (PDG): JMC has been regularly organizing face-to-face interactions and public hearings with policy makers, members of civil society, and community level leaders in establishing the department known as PDG.
• Climate Change Adaptation (CCA), Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Right To Food (RTF): In order to make aware the community level people on environmental issues and to advocate with policy makers to include Dalit voices on environmental policies. A radio Magazine VOLIKA LAGI AJAI has been produced and broadcasted through eight different radio stations of the country,
• JMC Journalism Training: JMC offers basic to advanced level journalism training to Dalit and non-Dalit journalists in order to increase the quantity and quality of media coverage on Dalit issues.

Rem Bahadur is the Chairperson of the Jagaran Media Center (JMC).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.