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[Laina Raveendran Greene]

Thanks Myriam for sharing this news with us. 

I am glad to see that APC has highlighted the issue of human trafficking. I
understand that every year 800,000 people are trafficked and put into
slavery every year..the main victims of these being women and girls. The US
now has new programs on TV to create awareness of this, since part of the
issue is to hopefuly try to reduce the demand driving this trend. The US is
apparently the largest market for this type of trafficking, which is
horrifying. Violence against women in this form, is only being made more
efficient using ICT and we need to be more aware of this, so we can better
deal with this.

Laina

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NEWSROOM

Digital Dangers: Information and Communication Technologies and Trafficking
in Women PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- It seems unlikely that whoever coined the
term 'information superhighway' anticipated that the traffic on the internet
would be in people, as well as information. How, and how much, the internet
and other ICTs are implicated in trafficking is the subject of this issue
paper by The Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking
Support Programme (APC WNSP) produced in cooperation with The Association
for Women's Rights in Development (AWID).
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/976

Annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index - 2005 North Korea, Eritrea and
Turkmenistan are the world's "black holes" for news. Western democracies
slip back, with the US falling more than 20 places.
North Korea once again comes bottom of the Reporters Without Borders fourth
annual World Press Freedom Index, released today. It is closely followed in
the 167-country list by Eritrea (166th) and Turkmenistan (165th), which are
other "black holes" for news where the privately-owned media is not allowed
and freedom of expression does not exist.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/972


NEWSROOM/UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY


UNESCO: Convention sur la diversité culturelle: Communiqué CRIS La campagne
Communication Rights in the Information Society (CRIS:
www.crisinfo.org) accueille favorablement l'approbation quasi unanime de la
Convention sur la protection de la diversité des contenus culturels et des
expressions artistiques. Cette Convention démontre clairement que les
gouvernements reconnaissent que la culture ne peut être réduite à une simple
marchandise. En endossant la Convention, les gouvernements ont démonté
qu'ils sont préparés à prendre des initiatives positives afin de supporter
la diversité culturelle à une époque où les industries culturelles sont
globales.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/987

UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity: CRIS Statement The campaign for
Communication Rights in the Information Society welcomes UNESCO's
near-unanimous approval of the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of
Cultural Contents and Artistic Expressions. The Convention is a clear
demonstration that governments recognize that culture cannot be reduced to a
mere commodity. By endorsing the Convention, governments have shown that
they are prepared to take positive steps to support cultural diversity in
the age of global cultural industries.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/986 

UNESCO Adopts Convention to Protect Diversity Julio Godoy PARIS, Oct 20
(IPS) - The United Nations cultural body adopted an international treaty
Thursday to protect cultural diversity, marking what experts say is a first
but important moral victory in the long-running fight to preserve the
world's cultural richness.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/985 

La Unesco avala el proteccionismo cultural con la frontal oposición de
Estados Unidos La Vanguardia LLUÍS URÍA - 20/10/2005 Corresponsal. PARÍS La
Unesco aprobará hoy un convenio internacional que pretende sustraer los
bienes culturales a la liberalización comercial El nuevo tratado, promovido
por Francia y Canadá, pretende ser un arma jurídica para resistir la
hegemonía de EE.UU.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/984

Hollywood the loser as global culture plan backed Independent (London)
21 October 2005
Not for the first time, the United States has found itself in almost total
isolation in an international body, as the rest of the world adopts a
convention which supporters say could help stop the "steamroller" of
Hollywood globalisation.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/983

US stands alone over cultural diversity treaty By Frances Williams in Geneva
Financial Times
Published: October 20 2005 03:00
A United Nations treaty to protect and promote cultural diversity is likely
to be overwhelmingly approved today in the face of lonely opposition from
the US, which fears the impact on exports of US films and television
programmes.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/982

AND MORE ON UNESCO COVERAGE ON: www.mediatradmonitor.org and
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/978/(offset)/4 


NEWSROOM/WSIS [TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS]


Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) Tunis November 16-18,
2005 First announcement and call for support CSIS Press release - October
24, 2005 A Citizens' Summit on the Information Society (CSIS) will be held
in Tunis, on November 16-18, 2005, coinciding with the World Summit on the
Information Society (WSIS).
The CSIS will be another milestone in the long tradition of UN conferences
and Summits being complemented with events organized by citizen groups.
Previous such events met with great success, for example during the Cairo
Conference on Population and Development (1994), the Beijing Conference on
Women (1995) or the Monterrey Summit on Financing for Development (2002).
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/988

Cumbre Ciudadana sobre la Sociedad de la Información Túnez, 16 al 18 de
noviembre de 2005 Primer anuncio y convocatoria a adhesiones Nota de prensa
de la CCSI - 24 de octubre de 2005 En Túnez, del 16 al 18 de noviembre de
2005, tendrá lugar una Cumbre Ciudadana sobre la Sociedad de la Información
(CCSI), coincidiendo con la Cumbre Mundial sobre la Sociedad de la
Información (CMSI).
La CCSI será un nuevo mojón en la larga tradición de conferencias y Cumbres
de Naciones Unidas complementadas con eventos organizados por grupos
ciudadanos. Eventos anteriores de este tipo han alcanzado gran éxito durante
conferencias tales como la Conferencia sobre Población y Desarrollo de El
Cairo (1994), la Conferencia sobre la Mujer en Beijing (1995) y la Cumbre
sobre Financiamiento para el Desarrollo en Monterrey (2002).
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/989 


Un expert de l'ONU invite la Tunisie à libérer les personnes emprisonnées
pour avoir exercé la liberté d'expression Le Rapporteur spécial sur la
promotion et la protection du droit à la liberté d'opinion et d'expression
de la Commission des droits de l'homme, M. Ambeyi Ligabo, a fait 14 octobre
2005 une déclaration concernant la situation en Tunisie, ou se tiendra, du
16 au 18 novembre prochains, la phase finale du Sommet mondial sur la
société de l'information.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/974

UN rights expert urges unconditional release of Tunisians imprisoned for
exercising freedom of expression Just a few weeks before the World Summit on
the Information Society takes place in Tunis, the Special Rapporteur on the
promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Ambeyi Ligabo, issued the
following statement (14 October 2005).
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/975


GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION


The Stockholm Challenge Award 2006 is open for entries The Stockholm
Challenge Award 2006 invites excellent ICT projects from all over the world
to compete for the prestigious Challenge trophies.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/977

Nominations for Communication and Social Change Award Due 1 November 2005
The Communication and Social Change (CSC) Award is an annual award given to
an individual or organisation for contributions to the theory and/or
practice of communication for social change. Major theoretical
contributions, and applied communication practices that are illustrative of
frontline change and long-term sustainable development will be considered
for this award.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/973


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
WACC/CRIS Network and Advocacy Coordinator
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London SE11 5QY
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