Full Coverage: Media

20.04.2006 Press analysts Andrea Stefani, Mustafa Nano, and the MJAFT! Movement, reacted on Monday 17 April, in a joint press conference, organized MJAFT! offices, on the strong conflict between Prime Minister Berisha and Attorney General Theodhori Sollaku playing out in the media.

19.04.2006 A coalition of press freedom groups, including the World Association of
Newspapers (WAN), has asked the King of Nepal to end the violent crackdown on journalists and others in the recent protest demonstrations that have
jolted the Himalayan nation.

18.04.2006 The Union of Women Associations of Macedonia (SOZM) held a workshop under its Women Can Do It in the Media Project. The workshop, held yesterday, concluded that the medi play a key and decisive role in the creation of opinions and information in the field of gender equality, but they first need to increase their internal gender sensitivity.

17.04.2006 The debate over the limits of freedom speech and religious dictums has re-ignited among a new demographic--viewers of the irreverent comedy South Park.

17.04.2006 Through this analysis of 200 advertisements, Sharada J.Schaffter shows that sexism and gender stereotyping are still prevalent in the advertising industry.

17.04.2006 More than 500 publishers and journalists were arrested and jailed for practicing journalism in 2005 and such journalists number several thousand over the past decade. Dozens of them remain in prison today, serving sentences as long as 20 years. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) is organising the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, 2006 to highlight the plight of journalists facing abuse.

12.04.2006 The African Union has been urged to send a mediator to Banjul to assess whether the July AU summit there should be postponed because of the Gambian government's illegal detention of two newspaper executives.
* CPJ calls on Pakistani and US authorities to reveal all information about missing journalist

10.04.2006 Four daily papers in Kosovo and four in Serbia, have been monitored, by the member NGO’s of the Kosovo Initiative Program (KIP), which is supported by the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), on the manner of reporting on return field, Kosovo’s status and Kai Eide’s report. Project has been led by the nongovernmental organization "Initiative for Peace" in cooperation with NGO “Sfida" in Kosovo, and "Fractal" as well as SDF from Belgrade. The project was supported by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network- BIRN offices in Prishtina and London.

04.04.2006 The Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) is giving filmmakers a lesson on gender and sexuality. Expanding the boundaries of the frame to include issues that most mainstream television usually leave out of their picture, PSBT is holding a two-day "Gender Sexuality'' workshop that began here on Monday.