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Community Radio has Given Voice to Neglected Communities: Al-Amin
The need for community radio in the world is more relevant today than it was 10 years ago. Community radio is more close to the local citizens and their content is focused on the issues faced by communities that it seeks...
Read MoreKhanabadhoshon Ki Duniya – A World of Migrants Disrupting the Singular Narrative
PRESS RELEASE Khanabadhoshon Ki Duniya – A World of Migrants Disrupting the Singular Narrative New Delhi, 25 April 2017. On the occasion of International Labour Day, UNESCO is launching an awareness campaign to highlight...
Read MoreUNESCO Paris meet: In quest of a way forward for CR in South Asia
“Free community radio from the risks of NGO-ization and advocate the need to go beyond the development paradigm towards a communication rights perspective” was one among the several recommendations proposed towards addressing...
Read MoreToolkit: “Internal Migration – A Manual for Community Radio Stations”
The UNESCO Training Manual titled “Internal Migration – A Manual for Community Radio Stations (2015)” by N. Ramakrishnan and Venu Arora of Ideosync Media Combine can be found on the ‘Manuals and...
Read MoreTowards COP21: Broadcasting the voices of the communities – An international radio series produced by AMARC
In December 2015, Paris will host the 21st Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework convention on Climate Change (COP21). There, the countries will negotiate a new universal climate agreement. The...
Read MoreOpening Remarks, Conference on Community Media Sustainability, September 2015
OPENING REMARKS Conference on Community Media Sustainability: Strengthening Policies and Funding 14-15 September, UNESCO Paris Guy Berger, Director, Division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Communication and...
Read MoreWorld Radio Day 2015 puts spotlight on role of CR in social inclusion
In commemoration of the World Radio Day 2015 (February 13), UNESCO New Delhi partnered with the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA) to organize a national event on the theme ‘Community Radio and Social...
Read MoreBroadcasting for youth and by youth
World Radio Day seeks to raise awareness about the importance of radio as Marshall McLuhan’s ‘hot’ medium or the ‘tribal drum’ with a tremendous amount of untapped potential, both as an entertainment apparatus and as a tool for...
Read MoreTuning into Development: International Comparative Survey of Community Broadcasting Regulation
UNESCO has recently published a valuable resource, an international review of about 30 countries on community broadcasting regulation. Written by Toby Mendel, Executive Director of the Centre for Law and Democracy, Halifax,...
Read MoreCommitment to Global Alliance on Media and Gender made at historic Bangkok meet
FIRST GLOBAL FORUM ON MEDIA AND GENDER (GFMG) Bangkok, Thailand 2nd-4th December, 2013 FINAL STATEMENT We, the delegates to the First Global Forum on Media and Gender, held in Bangkok, Thailand from 2nd-4th December, 2013,...
Read MorePress Freedom in South Asia Report 2012-13
Building Resistance, Organizing for Change: the Press Freedom in South Asia Report 2012-13, published jointly by UNESCO and IFJ was released on May 3, 2013 in New Delhi. Please see a brief section on community radio in...
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