[WSIS CS-Plenary] Re: European Civil Society Meeting with European Commission?

[Victor van Oeyen]

ALER (Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica) is worried about
what is happening at the world summit and gladly endorses the statement on
paragraph 51

Victor van Oeyen

>The following statement was released today as a result of proposals to
reduce 
>paragraph 51 on the media to a single sentence. 
>
>Additional endorsements can be sent to <steve at commedia.org.uk>
>
>Steve Buckley
>AMARC
>
>///
>
>Statement on paragraph 51
>
>Many civil society groups notably including media and journalistic 
>organisations at this conference deeply regret that paragraph 51 of the
draft 
>declaration of WSIS has been reduced to almost nothing. 
>
>We especially regret that the thoughtful Swiss amendment on the media has
been 
>dropped. We appeal for it to be restored.
>
>
>International Federation of Journalists
>World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
>Media Institute of Southern Africa
>African Women's Development and Communications Network
>International Labor Organisation
>Article 19
>Association for Progressive Communications
>Femnet
>Glocom
>Highway Africa
>Isis International - Manila
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Victor van Oeyen
Representante a la Cumbre Mundial de la Sociedad de la Información
Número de registro: al10358bo
ALER - Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica
La Paz - BOLIVIA
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