La Radio Local en América Latina: Políticas y Legislación
Seminario Internacional
http://www.freewebs.com/radiolocal/index.htm

Carta de La Paz - POR UNA COMUNICACIÓN INCLUSIVA DESDE LAS RADIOS LOCALES

Reunidos en la ciudad de La Paz, Bolivia, del 19 al 21 de noviembre de 2008, los participantes del Seminario Internacional sobre la “Radio Local en América Latina: Políticas y Legislación”, suscribimos el presente documento.

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Catalan Government announces support for community media
[Gobierno Catalan anuncia apoyo a medios comunitarios]

Núria Reguero in Barcelona for www.communitymedia.eu

The General Director for the Media and Audiovisual Distribution Services of the Regional Government of Catalonia, Spain, has committed to recognise the not-for-profit media before the end of the current legislature at the roundtable “Third Sector Media in Catalonia: experiences and policies”, held on 27 November 2008 at the ECREA conference in Barcelona.

On Wednesday December 10, 2008, a prominent voice against sexual violence in Eastern Congo, Dr. Denis Mukwege, received The United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights for his work as director at Panzi hospital.

Action Mondiale pour Le Congo http://www.congoglobalaction.org/index.html

December 10th 2008 was the 60th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. It is the foundation of international human rights law, the first universal statement on the basic principles of inalienable human rights, and a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations writes Giles Lane from Proboscis UK.

The Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) is a practitioner-led process designed to be long term and open to the community involved in media development around the world. The GFMD 2008 "Quality Information for All" builds on the achievements made since the first global conference of media aid organizations in Amman, Jordan in October 2005, in which more than 400 participants attended and agreed to a set of principles that form the basis of the work of the GFMD.

¿Por qué el Foro de Gobernanza de Internet (FGI) no habla español? se pregunta Morelis Gonzalo desde Venezuela a propósito del Foro de Gobernanza de Internet en Hyderabad, India del 3-6 de Diciembre, 2008. English document here

La Conferencia Mundial AMARC 10 se realizará en Argentina en 2010
Montreal, 21 de Noviembre de 2008.

El Consejo de Administración Internacional de AMARC se complace en anunciar que Argentina será el país huesped de la décima Conferencia Mundial de radios Comunitarias a realizarse en la segunda mitad de 2010.

The stories you missed on primetime: Community newsmakers tell it like it is
By Hemangini Gupta
source: InfoChange India

There's a community video revolution happening in rural India, and it’s no longer tokenism. Video newsmagazines are made, distributed and screened regularly and professionally. They’re even streaming online at a website called Channel 19
Community newsmakers

Mario Murillo reports:

MSF launches international multimedia campaign on conflict in Congo

Hundreds of thousands of people are on the run, fleeing a war that rages in eastern Congo, in the provinces of North and South Kivu. They are frightened. Many are sick or wounded. Others have been harassed or raped, or have had everything they own stolen. The people of the Kivus are in a critical condition. The destiny of everyone in this region is shaped by the war. The story of their struggle to survive needs to be told.