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24.05.2007 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a workshop on river pollution and cleaning on June 14-15, 2007 in New Delhi, India

24.05.2007 Indian NGO, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a two-day media briefing workshop for journalists and media professionals on river pollution and cleaning strategies at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India on June 14-15, 2007. The workshop will focus on Yamuna, a severely polluted river that cuts across the city.

18.05.2007 OneWorld South Asia and CIVICUS are jointly holding a workshop on Accountability of the Media on May 24 at the CIVICUS World Assembly being held at Glasgow from May 23-28.

17.05.2007 The Creative Commons Australia and the Open Channel Screen Resource Centre present the Open Channel Video Slam, a collaborative film project CCau took part in over last weekend (May 13-14).

11.05.2007 Indian NGO Center for Environment Education (CEE) is working to promote awareness and understanding of environmental issues in the country. It has recently introduced a website for children - www.kidsrgreen.org – that allows children to explore and discover environment-related issues.

09.05.2007 WASHINGTON, May 9 (IPS) - In the run-up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon planned to create a 'Rapid Reaction Media Team' (RRMT) designed to ensure control over major Iraqi media while providing an Iraqi 'face' for its efforts, according to a 'White Paper' obtained by the independent National Security Archive (NSA) which released it Tuesday.

07.05.2007 With a humane and empathetic farmer-sensitive approach, eighty Kisan Call Centres (KCC) across the country are addressing issues raised by farmers from fungus on brinjals to kisan credit cards and prices of insecticides. Neeta Lal from the Women's Feature Service, reports on the working of these centres, their problems and potential.

07.05.2007 Ranjith Thankappan, Lecturer at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India, cites cases such as those of Jessica Lal to problematise the socially responsible face of the media, and to expose media/judicial activisms with respect to 'upper' caste/class India and the lack of it with respect to Dalit/Subaltern India.