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Tech This Week: Social Media Platforms Practice Digital Apartheid on Pro-Palestine Content Published May 20th, 2021 - 06:30 GMT Pro-Palestine activists, who turned to the digital space for airing the horrible erasure of Palestinians, were sadly surprised to find their posts, photos, or videos removed or their accounts blocked starting last week, Reuters reported. (Shutterstock) Highlights Its important to know that these digital rights violations also affected users around the globe who u...

While last year was a trying one for the radio industry, it also once again proved its value and agility. If there was a year to prove that radio is tenacious, agile, tactile and versatile, 2020 was it. Add elements of care, compassion, fun and understanding alongside information, entertainment and news, and you really do seem to have the perfect media ‘friend’. While the country was changing gears between lockdown levels, making sense of the new normal and telling the person on the other s...

Date Time Groups of Friends on Safety of Journalists issue a statement on Press Freedom This joint statement illustrated the importance given by a growing number of Member States to support a free, independent and pluralistic media landscape, and to uphold freedom of expression and freedom of the press as fundamental human rights. The statement notably payed tribute to the African newspapers journalists who met in Windhoek, Namibia in 1991 and produced a statement of press freedom principles, k...

Krüger); Jönköping University ( Tallert); Folke Bernadotte Academy, or FBA ( Fritzon) "...just as environmental sustainability has posed systemic questions about the way economics, markets, societies and politics are structured, sustainable journalism also poses systemic questions about how journalism as an industry within specific media ecosystems and contexts is structured." This policy brief from the Consortium to Promote Human Rights, Civic Freedoms and Media Development (CHARM) Africa ...

virtual participants from 150+ countries The Windhoek+30 Declaration takes forward the spirit of the original 1991 Windhoek Declaration, but makes reference to nowadays persistent and new challenges to media freedom such as risk of media extinction amid a “severe economic crisis” and disruption of traditional media business models; “increasing proliferation, amplification and promotion of […] disinformation and hate speech;” as well as “enduring and new threats to the safet...

© Reuters / Peter Nicholls FILE PHOTO: BBC workers place barriers near to the main entrance of the BBC headquarters and studios in Portland Place, London, Britain, July 16, 2015 UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has given the BBC World Service an £8 million funding boost to "tackle harmful disinformation." What that means is unclear, but the BBC has a history of waging infowars for the UK government. Broadcast in more than 40 languages to 350 million listeners per week, the BBC World Service ...

AFEX condemns killing of Kenyan journalist and demands investigation Journalist Betty Barasa, Visuasa News/Facebook Evidence points to the fact that the killing of editor and producer, Betty Muthekele Barasa, by assailants who invaded her home, could be linked to her work. This statement was originally published on africafex.org on 12 April 2021. The African Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is profoundly dismayed by, and strongly condemns...

Change nation of residence By telling us your country of residence we’re in a position to give you the most relevant travel insurance data. Yemeni women, who had been on the fore of the 2011 protest movement, are excluded from a proper position in UN-led national talks to end the civil warfare. He was denied access to a lawyer, and later alleged that investigators tortured him on 11 August to pressure him to signal a document by trying to suffocate him with a towel. On 22 August, Bobomurod Ab...

| April 19, 2021 “ Now more than ever, citizens need access to trusted news sources. This programme will support the important work being undertaken by media throughout East Central Africa and Southeast Asia”, said Vincent Peyrègne, WAN-IFRA CEO. “ Our Norwegian members have consistently championed WAN-IFRA’s work to promote media freedom globally, and we are gratified that we may continue to amplify this work through the support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Aff...

Liberia’s Disability Community: “New Narrative” on the Internews Model Liberia’s Disability Community: “New Narrative” on the Internews Model THE GENERALIZED PERCEPTION IN THE LIBERIAN SOCIETY Blind (Visually Impaired) Henry Kpadeh surviving on his musical talent In Liberia, when you are disabled—visually impaired (blind) or move in wheelchair or with crutches (or move on your knees because you don’t have wheelchair)—majority of the non-disabled people feel you can’t ma...