Tuesday, 11 August 2009

[creative-radio] MENA South Africa: A Reluctant Heroine - Living With Aids

 

South Africa: A Reluctant Heroine - Living With Aids
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[creative-radio] South Africa: A Reluctant Heroine - Living With Aids

 

South Africa: A Reluctant Heroine - Living With Aids
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[creative-radio] MENA Zimbabwe: 'Open the airwaves and grant operating licences to community radio stations'

 

Zimbabwe: 'Unity Govt Success Tied to Media Reform'

7 August 2009

AllAfrica.com

[excerpts]

The following is an address by Swedish Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Sten
Rylander, at the National Journalistic and Media Awards last Friday.

I would like to use this opportunity to look at the progress of the
inclusive government and the role of the media.

I will share my views from an international perspective and as a friend of
the Zimbabwean people. I believe an international perspective is crucial
because free media and freedom of expression know no borders.

Media should and can never be constrained by narrow national perceptions
or sovereignty.

Sweden has an admired tradition of press freedom, which dates back as far
as 1766 when the Freedom of the Press Act was passed. Sweden's current
work with media is ultimately founded on the rights of the individual: the
right to freedom of expression, the right to knowledge, the right to
transform knowledge into action and the right to freedom from poverty.

[...]

The opening up of the media environment is one of the key issues that we
will be observing. As part of the agenda we also endeavour to achieve a
successful dialogue (under Article 8 of the EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement) with
the Zimbabwean government aimed at normalised relations.

In this regard, an open and vibrant media will be important in order to
highlight and communicate the progress of the inclusive government as the
country moves towards re-engagement.

Press freedom is not an alien concept. One of the best and most
comprehensive sets of media guidelines was produced in Namibia in the
early 1990s.

[...]

Over the last years the state repression of the media has intensified
through the use of legislation like Aippa, Posa and the Broadcasting
Services Act.

These laws have seen the crackdown on the media resulting in forced
closure of private newspapers and radio stations, the arrest and
intimidation of journalists and the restructuring of the state media into
a deplorable and highly politicised monopoly.

The international community and indeed Zimbabweans are closely monitoring
the media environment expecting an end to the repression as an indicator
of the success of the inclusive government.

[...]

The GPA notes that while the provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act
permit the issuance of licences, to date no licences other than to the
public broadcaster have been issued.

It is very important for the government to urgently open up the airwaves
to allow for the operation of "as many media houses as possible" to
directly quote from the GPA. A first step would be to open the airwaves
for community radio stations.

As Sweden we join so many others in believing that the absence of
community-based radios hinders development and slows down poverty
reduction efforts. Community radio stations could be playing a crucial
role in terms of informing the ordinary people, especially in rural and
marginal areas, on the progress of the inclusive government and other key
issues like national healing and the constitution-making process.

We call upon the government to open the airwaves and grant operating
licences to community radio stations and other broadcasters.

[...]

Full story
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[creative-radio] Zimbabwe: 'Open the airwaves and grant operating licences to community radio stations'

 

Zimbabwe: 'Unity Govt Success Tied to Media Reform'

7 August 2009

AllAfrica.com

[excerpts]

The following is an address by Swedish Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Sten
Rylander, at the National Journalistic and Media Awards last Friday.

I would like to use this opportunity to look at the progress of the
inclusive government and the role of the media.

I will share my views from an international perspective and as a friend of
the Zimbabwean people. I believe an international perspective is crucial
because free media and freedom of expression know no borders.

Media should and can never be constrained by narrow national perceptions
or sovereignty.

Sweden has an admired tradition of press freedom, which dates back as far
as 1766 when the Freedom of the Press Act was passed. Sweden's current
work with media is ultimately founded on the rights of the individual: the
right to freedom of expression, the right to knowledge, the right to
transform knowledge into action and the right to freedom from poverty.

[...]

The opening up of the media environment is one of the key issues that we
will be observing. As part of the agenda we also endeavour to achieve a
successful dialogue (under Article 8 of the EU-ACP Cotonou Agreement) with
the Zimbabwean government aimed at normalised relations.

In this regard, an open and vibrant media will be important in order to
highlight and communicate the progress of the inclusive government as the
country moves towards re-engagement.

Press freedom is not an alien concept. One of the best and most
comprehensive sets of media guidelines was produced in Namibia in the
early 1990s.

[...]

Over the last years the state repression of the media has intensified
through the use of legislation like Aippa, Posa and the Broadcasting
Services Act.

These laws have seen the crackdown on the media resulting in forced
closure of private newspapers and radio stations, the arrest and
intimidation of journalists and the restructuring of the state media into
a deplorable and highly politicised monopoly.

The international community and indeed Zimbabweans are closely monitoring
the media environment expecting an end to the repression as an indicator
of the success of the inclusive government.

[...]

The GPA notes that while the provisions of the Broadcasting Services Act
permit the issuance of licences, to date no licences other than to the
public broadcaster have been issued.

It is very important for the government to urgently open up the airwaves
to allow for the operation of "as many media houses as possible" to
directly quote from the GPA. A first step would be to open the airwaves
for community radio stations.

As Sweden we join so many others in believing that the absence of
community-based radios hinders development and slows down poverty
reduction efforts. Community radio stations could be playing a crucial
role in terms of informing the ordinary people, especially in rural and
marginal areas, on the progress of the inclusive government and other key
issues like national healing and the constitution-making process.

We call upon the government to open the airwaves and grant operating
licences to community radio stations and other broadcasters.

[...]

Full story
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200908071037.html>

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[creative-radio] CKUT radio: Torture Canada | live broadcast today!

 


* CKUT radio: Torture Canada
special broadcast on Canada's contemporary relationship to torture
featuring Abousfian Abdelrazik

-------------------------------
TUESDAY AUGUST 11th 17h00 - 18h00
live broadcast on CKUT Radio, 90.3fm
tune-in globally via live stream at www.ckut.ca
-------------------------------

A special edition of CKUT radio's community news program Off the Hour,
examining Canada's contemporary ties to torture. Torture has occupied an
important place in Canada's political relationship to the world since 9/11.

From the battlefields in Afghanistan, to the multiple Canadians tortured abroad
with complicity from successive Canadian governments, a real national
discussion on Canada's position on torture is necessary. As a signatory to the
UN Convention against Torture, actions undertaken by successive Canadian
governments contradict the anti-torture convention.

A focus for the special broadcast will be Abousfian Abdelrazik's ongoing
struggle, Abdelrazik is a Canadian who can speak directly to Canada's
relationship to torture and will speak live in CKUT radio studios, the first
live radio interview given since Abdelrazik returned to Canada from Sudan last
month after a major cross-Canada campaign organized by Project Fly Home.

Today, Abdelrazik is now struggling for a full restoration of his citizenship
rights in Canada. Abdelrazik remains on the United Nations' terrorist
watch-list, prohibiting him from holding a bank account or accepting any kind
of financial assistance, including employment wages in Canada.

featuring live interviews:

* Abousfian Abdelrazik

Abousfian Abdelrazik is a Sudanese-born Canadian dual citizen who is now at the
epicenter of a grassroots campaign that recently pressed the government to
repatriate Abdelrazik from Sudan, a citizenship right denied by successive
Canadian governments. In June, after six years in exile, Abdelrazik returned to
Montreal after a key ruling from a federal court judge forced the government to
respect Abdelrazik's right of return to Canada. Abousfian Abdelrazik is a
Canadian who can speak directly to Canada.s take on torture.

* Paul Koring

Paul Koring is a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail newspaper
currently posted in Washington D.C. as the paper's foreign affairs and
international security correspondent. Koring's groundbreaking reporting on
Abousfian Abdelrazik played an important role in educating people across Canada
on Abdelrazik's imprisonment and torture in Sudan and campaign for Abdelrazik
to return to Canada.

* Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith is a foreign correspondent for The Globe and Mail, Canada's
national newspaper. Smith was stationed in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2009 and
previously was based in Moscow. Smith's reporting from Afghanistan that sparked
a national discussion on Canada's role in torture in Afghanistan and detailed
experiences of torture by multiple Afghan prisoners captured by the Canadian
military and transferred to Afghan authorities. Graeme Smith has been awarded
three National Newspaper Awards, Canada's highest prize for print journalism.

for information on Project Fly Home and Abdelrazik visit:
http://www.peoplescommission.org

---

CKUT Radio: Community News Department
email: news(at)ckut.ca
phone: 514-448-4041 x. 6788
web: http://www.ckut.ca

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