Navigating SRHRJ in Asia Pacific: A Practical Guide to Ethical Reporting & Content Creation for Media Practitioners

This guide responds to the growing threats posed by anti-rights actors who weaponise misinformation and target gender justice, reproductive autonomy, and LGBTQIA+ rights. With disinformation campaigns intensifying and restrictive policies resurging across the region, media professionals are urged to act as educators, monitors, mediators, and advocates. The guide outlines strategies rooted in human rights principles, prioritising safety, consent, equity, and inclusive representation. 

A SRHRJ media lens demands more than just reporting facts; it requires centering lived experiences and dismantling power structures that perpetuate gender inequality. Journalists are encouraged to avoid sensationalism and moral judgment, instead adopting survivor-centred, rights-based, and thematic approaches to coverage. Topics such as safe abortion, comprehensive sexuality education, and the criminalisation of sex work must be framed not only as public health issues but also as matters of bodily autonomy and social justice. 

The guide also provides practitioners with tools to counter disinformation and navigate the complexities of cultural, legal, and political sensitivities without compromising integrity. It calls for a decolonised narrative approach, one that recognises historical injustices and amplifies local and community-led innovations in SRHRJ. 

As we witness global democratic backsliding and rising hostility toward gender justice movements, this guide offers a path forward: one grounded in ethical storytelling, intersectional awareness, and feminist solidarity. Media has the power to inform, disrupt, and transform. This source equips journalists and content creators to challenge harmful norms, hold power to account, and contribute to a more just and inclusive society for all.