>Subject: Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [September 19th 2005]
>Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:19:46 +0100
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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>CRIS IN TUNISIA: FULL REPORT!
>"I am of the generation that on hearing that
>someone has been on a 'mission', immediately
>thinks either of 'Mission Impossible' or of the
>many Irish missionaries that plied the world
>with Christian ideology, mostly
>well-intentioned, in the name of helping poor
>people. I am just back from a human rights
>mission to Tunisia. This is my report." (Sean O'Siochru, CRIS Campaign)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/226
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>NEWSROOM/WSIS SPECIAL PREPCOMS
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>Reinforcing Journalism in the Information Society
>September 14th, 2005 Grahamstown, South Africa
>Highway Africa is an annual conference hosted in
>South Africa, bringing together journalists and
>new media practitioners from across the African
>continent. The conference aims to put African
>media into the centre of debates about ICTs and
>the Global Information Society. The 2005
>conference, in Grahamstown 12-14 September 2005
>focused on reinforcing journalism in the
>Information Society and was attended by three hundred African journalists.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/943
>
>WSIS Prepcom 3: Updates on official and civil society events
>The World Summit 2003 website has now posted all
>updated information regarding activities around
>and during Prepcom 3 which will be held in
>Geneva from 19th September until 30th September.
>This will be the last official multi-stakeholder
>meeting before the Summit in November.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/942
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>NEWSROOM/WSIS TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS
>
>JOINT ACTION: NGOs protest deterioration of
>rights in Tunisia two months ahead of WSIS
>IFEX, TUNIS, Sept 9, 2005 - International and
>Tunisian non-governmental organisations express
>their outrage at the rapid deterioration of the
>human rights situation in Tunisia just two
>months prior to the World Summit on the
>Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunis,
>November 15-18, 2005. After prohibiting the
>founding congress of the Tunisian Journalists'
>Union (SJT) on September 7, authorities
>prevented the Tunisian League for Human Rights
>(LTDH) from holding its 6th Congress, scheduled to begin today.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/941
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>CAMPAIGN RESOURCES
>
>Towards a Sustainable Information Society Deconstructing WSIS
>Edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier
>The Information Society is one of the recurrent
>imaginaries to describe present-day structures,
>discourses and practices. Within its meaning is
>enshrined the promise of a better world,
>sometimes naively assuming a technological
>deus-ex-machina, in other cases hoping for the
>creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/945
>
>GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION
>
>Nominations wanted for best Freedom of Expression Blog
>Bloggers and other Internet users are invited to
>submit nominations for the Special Reporters
>Without Borders Award honouring the blog that
>best promotes freedom of expression and information.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/934
>
>UNESCO Seeks Nominations for World Press Freedom Prize
>UNESCO invites organisations working in the
>field of journalism and freedom of expression to
>submit nominations for the 2006 UNESCO/Guillermo
>Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/935
>
>SIGN UP TO THE CRIS CHARTER/FIRMAR LA CARTA/SIGNER LA CHARTE
>
>CRIS CHARTER
>La Carta de CRIS
>Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información
>se fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un
>medio de acrecentar los derechos humanos y
>fortalecer la vida social, económica y cultural
>de las personas y las comunidades. Para
>lograrlo, resulta fundamental que las
>organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para
>cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de
>la información basada en principios de
>transparencia, diversidad, participación,
>justicia social y económica, e inspiradas por la
>equidad de género y la perspectivas culturales y regionales.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/
>
>
>Myriam Horngren
>WACC/CRIS Network and Advocacy Coordinator
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