Full Coverage: Information & media

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

26.05.2004 Members of an Islamist vigilante group in Bangladesh have issued death threats to journalists reporting on their activities, ratifying a just-released report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that includes this country among the "World's Worst Places to be a Journalist."

25.05.2004 Zimbabwe police on Friday arrested Bornwell Chakaodza, editor of the independent weekly Standard newspaper, and one of his reporters, for the second time in three days, his staff said.

24.05.2004 Children are no longer just recipients of development projects but participants. Plan International UK has been involving children in the development process and promoting their rights since the mid 1990s. Learn more about the programmes they have set up.

14.05.2004 The World Forum on Community Networking (WFCN) invites you to read the 4th issue of Mosaic. On the eve of the first meeting of the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunisia in June, this issue presents assessments of the first phase, the preparation for the second phase and numerous questions that remained unanswered from civil society's perspective regarding the relevance of its participation to the Summit.

12.05.2004 OneWorld South Asia Radio’s website lists events from around the world which will interest listeners and users of the radio.

11.05.2004 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has promised to bring out a consultation paper on community radio and consult communities and non-governmental organizations on allowing community radio stations in the country.

04.05.2004 Alternatives est en phase de recrutement pour les stages 2004-2005. La date limite pour soumettre votre candidature est le 25 juin 2004. Alternatives et l'Agence canadienne de développement internationale (ACDI) offrent des stage de six mois en milieu communautaire dans différents pays du Sud. Des finissants en journalisme et communications auront la chance de travailler en journalisme, édition ou recherche, auprès d'organisations communautaires, de journalistes, de coopératives de médias situés en Afrique.

04.05.2004 The Zimbabwean government says it will shut down another independent newspaper under draconian press laws on the same day the world marked the United Nations's International Press Freedom Day.

03.05.2004 Reporters Without Borders said Monday that journalists in Africa faced worsening working conditions in 2003 and warned that the continent's independent media were in the process of disappearing in several countries.

03.05.2004 The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has again this year be released its annual publication, "So This Is Democracy?: State of media freedom in Southern Africa" in commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on May 3. This is the tenth consecutive year in which MISA has issued this publication, which records incidents of media freedom violations monitored by MISA in the previous year. The current edition therefore details media freedom violations in 2003.

03.05.2004 The The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is marking World Press Freedom Day, Monday, May 3, by naming the World's Worst Places to Be a Journalist. The list of 10 places represents the full range of current threats to press freedom. Zimbabwe is amongst these.