Full Coverage: Information & media

30.08.2005 Faites pression. Analysez. Critiquez. Protestez. Mobilisez. Proposez. Plaidez. Participez.

La session plénière de haut niveau de l'Assemblée générale, " Le Sommet du Millénaire +5 ", New York, 14-16 septembre 2005


La 6ème Conférence ministérielle de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce, Hong Kong, du 13 au 18 décembre, 2005

Le Forum social mondial (FSM)

30.08.2005 RSF exprime son indignation après la mort à Bagdad d'un preneur de son de l'agence Reuters, Waleed Khaled, tué par des tirs de soldats américains lors d'un incident au cours duquel le cameraman qui travaillait avec lui, Haider Kadhem, a été blessé puis arrêté.

30.08.2005 The biggest thetha SANGONeT information communication technology (ICT) discussion forum with Civil Society Organisations of South Africa have started in Cape Town with an opportunity for the general public to learn about the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS).

26.08.2005 OneWorld South Asia and Panos International are organising a one-day dialogue bringing together key national level communications policymakers and other influential actors with senior editors and journalists, to dialogue and build the media’s interest, increase their stake in building an inclusive information society. The seminar is on September 2 at Chennai.

26.08.2005 Transparency International Croatia greeted and commended the decision of the Administrative Court which accepted the arguments of the private lawsuit started by Jelena Berkovic, a journalist, against Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, on charges of violation of the right to access to information.

25.08.2005 Indian grassroots filmmakers and non governmental organisations (NGOs) plan to form a Grassroots Broadcasters Network to spread awareness on developmental and social issues confronting rural India using videos and films.

24.08.2005 United Nations special envoy Anna Tibaijuka’s report on Zimbabwe's Operation Murambatsvina has continued to attract heavy media attention. But while the private media in the country have carried fairly investigative and balanced reports on the topic, the government-controlled media’s coverage is rigid, characterised by shrill defence of government’s implementation of Murambatsvina while simultaneously parading the clampdown’s mop-up successor, Operation Garikai, as a worthy programme.

23.08.2005 Mobile telephony has completed ten eventful years in India, during which mobile connections overtook landline connections. These ten years have seen prices tumble down, addition of new features and increasing competition between cell phone makers as well as telephony providers.

22.08.2005 Quand, dès l'âge de la maternelle, des enfants s’assoient pour la première fois devant un ordinateur équipé d’un logiciel en kiché, leur langue maternelle maya, les leçons dépassent de loin la maîtrise de connaissances élémentaires en informatique. Les élèves apprennent que leur langue et leur culture autochtones occupent une place essentielle dans leur société.

22.08.2005 Le contrôle qu'exerce le gouvernement russe sur la télévision nationale et son recours à une réglementation répressive, au harcèlement et à des attaques contre les journalistes qui couvrent le conflit en Tchétchénie privent le public russe d'informations sur les atrocités qui y sont commises, selon les constatations du Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ), au terme d'une enquête qui aura duré un an.

22.08.2005 Le plus grand syndicat du Canada accorde son appui aux travailleurs de la SRC en lock-out dans leur lutte contre le recours accru aux sous-traitants et demande à la direction de la SRC de revenir à la table pour négocier de bonne foi.

19.08.2005 Indian telecom expert Sam Pitroda feels that technology can build bridges between the masses and knowledge systems. Broadband, Internet portals, satellites, and so on could help revamp education and thereby allow India to be truly a part of the globalisation sweepstake that is sweeping the world.

18.08.2005 The Indian apex court has issued notices to the government of India, the Press Council of India (PCI), news agencies and major newspapers on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking classification of newspapers on the basis of their content to denote whether these were fit to be read universally or by adults only.

18.08.2005 India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore, has been chosen as the India headquarters for the United Nations “Global e-school and Communities Initiative” (Gesci), a special campaign to promote the use of technology in education.

17.08.2005 Residents of south Delhi can now make themselves heard as they the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) is about to begin its own community radio channel within the next two weeks. The Jamia Milia University was the first to set up such a project in Delhi two months ago.

16.08.2005 Akbar Ganji, le journaliste iranien emprisonné en janvier 2001 parce qu'il aurait offensé les dirigeants religieux du pays et des fonctionnaires du gouvernement pourrait être à l'article de la mort, la grève de la faim qu’il a entreprise pour protester contre des conditions de détention dépasse maintenant les 60 jours.

Le 22 avril 2000, Akbar Ganji, journaliste aux quotidiens réformateurs Sobh-é-Emrouz, Neshat et Asr-é-Azadegan, et rédacteur en chef de l'hebdomadaire Rah-é-No, est arrêté à son retour de Berlin pour avoir participé à une conférence jugée "anti-islamique" et "antirévolutionnaire" par les autorités iraniennes.

16.08.2005 An inflationary environment and political pressure is making Zimbabwean newspapers financially vulnerable, according to media sources.

15.08.2005 Ugandan authorities have shut down a prominent independent radio station after it aired a talk show about the July helicopter crash that killed southern Sudanese leader John Garang, according to local sources. The suspension came a day after President Yoweri Museveni threatened to shut down any news outlet that "plays around with regional security."

14.08.2005 When John Le Carre set out to write the Constant Gardener--a thriller novel-turned-major motion picture about a feisty humanitarian activist murdered in Northern Kenya--he found inspiration for his character from Yvette Pierpaoli, a passionate activist for refugees and children who worked for Refugees International before her sudden death in 1999.

10.08.2005 While Tanzanian journalists enjoy a relatively vibrant and free press, those who live in Zanzibar - a semi-autonomous island off the mainland coast - are not so fortunate, reports RAP21 (the African Press Network for the 21st Century). Most newspapers are state-owned and steer clear of criticising the government. Those that do, pay a high price.