[WSIS CS-Plenary] Crisinfo.org - news ENG ESP PT FR [August 8th 2005]

[Myriam Horngren]

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The CRIS Campaign needs you! The team has set up an online survey and we are looking forward to your input about the work of CRIS so far. La campaña CRIS necesita sus comentarios. El equipo ha instalado una encuesta en línea y esperamos con mucho gusto su participación y opiniones sobre el trabajo de CRIS en los últimos años.
English: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=276541251574
Español: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=162671256993


NEWSROOM

The Chavez TV Debate/ El Debate Chavez TV

After the publication and distribution of an article by the Guardian on the newly launched Telesur, http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1535981,00.html
CRIS members have been sharing hopes and fears around this new project. We include here the discussion between Antonio Pasquali and Bruce Girard, both based in Latin America and long time campaigners for communication rights (available in English and Spanish).

Despues de la publicacion de un articulo del Guardian (Reino Unido) sobre el nuevo canal de television latino Telesur ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1535981,00.html) los mimebros de CRIS han estado debatiendo sobre las oportunidades y los riesgos que presenta esta nueva iniciativa. Aqui tenemos en Ingles y Español una discusion entre Bruce Girard y Antonio Pasquali, ambos defensores de los derechos a la comunicacion.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/918

Are UNESCO and WIPO connected on the Development Agenda?
Whilst for some the current draft text of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity (see: www.mediatrademonitor.org) is a positive step forward in North-South negociations, it seems that the progress under the WIPO banners and the development agenda has stalled. What will it mean for developing countries? What actions should they take to ensure that a more balanced agreement be struck, as has been the case with the UNESCO process so far?
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/917

Media suppression in Belarus
A message on the crisinfo list caught our eye. It said: " The situation in Belarus is not one we hear much about. I am posting this as a sample of the ongoing suppression of media by the government. It is a realtively low level process of attrition - arrests on trumped up charges, making life difficult in lots of little ways. I have been there recently and have seen how hard they are struggling just to keep up their work." (Sean O'Siochru, crisinfo, 5th August 2005)
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/916


NEWSROOM/WSIS

Women, Gender and Media
Jac SM Kee
When I was a trainer at a media and gender workshop in 2002, the only male participant there confessed, "Our organisation is not prioritising gender actually. We are more concerned about other issues - issues which are political". This statement reveals much about the stand that most media institutions take on gender.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/919

GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION

Campaña de Solidaridad con Nepal
27 de julio de 2005
La Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias (AMARC) ha inicidado una campaña de solidaridad para apoyar la libertad de expresión y el derecho a la comunicación de las radios FM y comunitarias de Nepal. 
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/915

Solidarity Campaign with Nepal
AMARC July 27, 2005
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) is launching a solidarity campaign in favour of freedom of expression and the right to communicate of the FM and community radios in Nepal.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/914

EDRI launches petition against data retention
European Digital Rights, together with the Dutch ISPs XS4ALL and Bit, launched an international petition today against mandatory data retention.
The petition is aimed at the European Commission and the members of the European Parliament.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/913


SIGN UP TO THE CRIS CHARTER/FIRMAR LA CARTA/SIGNER LA CHARTE

CRIS CHARTER
La Carta de CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida social, económica y cultural de las personas y las comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la información basada en principios de transparencia, diversidad, participación, justicia social y económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y la perspectivas culturales y regionales.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/ 

La Charte de CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l'information» est basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l'homme et améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est essentiel que les organisations de la société civile se réunissent afin d'aider à la construction d'une société de l'information basée sur les principes de transparence, de diversité, de participation et de justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture et des aspects régionaux.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95

The CRIS Charter
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human rights and to strengthen the social, economic and cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to this is that civil society organisations come together to help build an information society based on principles of transparency, diversity, participation and social and economic justice, and inspired by equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98

Myriam Horngren
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