>Subject: Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [October 26th 2005]
>Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:26:28 +0100
>From: "Myriam Horngren" <mh@wacc.org.uk>
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>NEWSROOM
>
>Digital Dangers: Information and Communication
>Technologies and Trafficking in Women
>PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- It seems unlikely that
>whoever coined the term 'information
>superhighway' anticipated that the traffic on
>the internet would be in people, as well as
>information. How, and how much, the internet and
>other ICTs are implicated in trafficking is the
>subject of this issue paper by The Association
>for Progressive Communications Women's
>Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) produced
>in cooperation with The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/976
>
>Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2005
>North Korea, Eritrea and Turkmenistan are the
>world's "black holes" for news. Western
>democracies slip back, with the US falling more than 20 places. (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/972
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>NEWSROOM/UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY
>
>UNESCO: Convention sur la diversité culturelle: Communiqué CRIS
>La campagne Communication Rights in the
>Information Society ( CRIS:www.crisinfo.org )
>accueille favorablement l'approbation quasi
>unanime de la Convention sur la protection de la
>diversité des contenus culturels et des
>expressions artistiques. Cette Convention
>démontre clairement que les gouvernements
>reconnaissent que la culture ne peut être
>réduite à une simple marchandise. En endossant
>la Convention, les gouvernements ont démonté
>qu'ils sont préparés à prendre des initiatives
>positives afin de supporter la diversité
>culturelle à une époque où les industries culturelles sont globales.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/987
>
>UNESCO Adopts Convention to Protect Diversity
>Julio Godoy
>PARIS, Oct 20 (IPS) - The United Nations
>cultural body adopted an international treaty
>Thursday to protect cultural diversity, marking
>what experts say is a first but important moral
>victory in the long-running fight to preserve the world's cultural richness.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/985
>
>La Unesco avala el proteccionismo cultural con
>la frontal oposición de Estados Unidos
>La Vanguardia
>LLUÍS URÍA - 20/10/2005
>Corresponsal. PARÍS
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/984
>
>Hollywood the loser as global culture plan backed
>Independent (London)
>21 October 2005
>Not for the first time, the United States has
>found itself in almost total isolation in an
>international body, as the rest of the world
>adopts a convention which supporters say could
>help stop the "steamroller" of Hollywood globalisation.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/983
>
>US stands alone over cultural diversity treaty
>(...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/982
>
>AND MORE ON UNESCO COVERAGE ON:
>www.mediatradmonitor.org and
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/978/(offset)/4
>
>
>NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]
>
>Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) Tunis
>November 16-18, 2005 First announcement and call
>for support CSIS Press release - October 24, 2005
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/988
>
>Cumbre Ciudadana sobre la Sociedad de la Información
>Túnez, 16 al 18 de noviembre de 2005
>Primer anuncio y convocatoria a adhesiones
>Nota de prensa de la CCSI - 24 de octubre de 2005
>En Túnez, del 16 al 18 de noviembre de 2005,
>tendrá lugar una Cumbre Ciudadana sobre la
>Sociedad de la Información (CCSI), coincidiendo
>con la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la Información (CMSI). (...)
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/989
>
>Un expert de l'ONU invite la Tunisie à libérer
>les personnes emprisonnées pour avoir exercé la liberté d'expression
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/974
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>UN rights expert urges unconditional release of
>Tunisians imprisoned for exercising freedom of expression
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/975
>
>
>GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION
>
>The Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 is open for entries
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/977
>
>Nominations for Communication and Social Change Award
>Due 1 November 2005
>The Communication and Social Change (CSC) Award
>is an annual award given to an individual or
>organisation for contributions to the theory
>and/or practice of communication for social
>change. Major theoretical contributions, and
>applied communication practices that are
>illustrative of frontline change and long-term
>sustainable development will be considered for this award.
>http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/973
>
>
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>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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