Tuesday 24 November 2009

Re: [creative-radio] APFEJ announces appointment of new chair and team for next 3 years

 

Please give my hearty cheers to the newly elected Board members. I wish them a very successful tenure. And remember to include Benin Republic in your program for the current dispensation.

Vincent NNANNA,

http://vinfish.blogspot.com

Tel: +(229)97444619 & 93478254

--- On Sat, 21/11/09, Dharman Wickremaratne <afejchairman@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Dharman Wickremaratne <afejchairman@yahoo.com>
Subject: [creative-radio] APFEJ announces appointment of new chair and team for next 3 years
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 21 November, 2009, 14:53

 

Dear APFEJ supporters and friends,

Greetings to you from the APFEJ secretariat on Colombo- Sri Lanka.

Svetlana Dylevskaya, an experienced Central Asian senior environment journalist and
Network Editor of the Green Women Environmental Media Agency, Kazakhstan and
Central Asian Network for Ecological Journalists( CANEJ) has taken up the role of
chair of the Asia Pacific forum of Environmental Journalists( APFEJ).She is also the first women
president of APFEJ as well as the first person to become APFEJ president from Central Asia.
The APFEJ new secretariat based in Colombo- Sri Lanka will be open on November 19, 2009.

Following on from its 18th APFEJ World Congress of Environmental Journalists- Colombo- Sri Lanka,
October 19- 22, 2009, APFEJ, announced the newly elected 19-member Administrative Council
who will serve for the term 3 year term APFEJ can be rightly proud of the
active participation of the attendees, more than 103 Environmental Journalists, opinion makers from
34 countries.A new APFEJ administrative Council is in place and ready to forward the APFEJ 's directives.
At the meeting, a new structure for APFEJ was proposed this includes appointing 45 country coordinators
from Asia Pacific countries.As per the constitution of APFEJ, the administrative Council is
elected through its full,associate and individual membership categories.
Of the 19 APFEJ administrative Council members there are 8 women representatives.

The Asia-Pacific Forum of Environmental Journalists( APFEJ) is a network and regional association
founded in 1988,dedicated to promoting education understanding and awareness of the
environment through the honest and accurate reporting of local,regional and international
environmental and development issues.It acted as the head of national environmental journalist
forums or media organizations of 42 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.The APFEJ
ad hoc committee was formed in 1985 at a regional conference on media and environment in Delhi
organized by UN-ESCAP in collaboration with the UNEP.Today, APFEJ,is the oldest and
largest organization of professional environmental journalists, contacts over 12,000 members
around the world. The mission of APFEJ to build into a strong,independent and committed
to promote excellence in environmental journalism worldwide by supporting environmental journalists
specially Asia pacific through Professionalism, Freedom of expression, Social responsibility,
environmental justice, Networking and training.

The roles of APFEJ administrative Council members has been streamlined and the
administrative Council itself consists only of an administrative body, which co-opts or appoints
other members as needed.This is quite a different formation of the APFEJ administrative Council
and means that members can feel free to come aboard the Council for short project specific periods.
The General assembly approved some amendments in the APFEJ constitution.

Members of the APFEJ administrative Council are follows;
01).President - Ms.Svetlana Dylevskaya, Kazakhstan
(Network Editor of the Green Women Environmental Media Agency*
and Central Asian Network for Ecological Journalists - CANEJ)

02).Deputy President - Mr.Tika Ram Rai, Nepal
(Convener of the Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists -NEFEJ)*

Regional Directors(5)
03).Central Asia Director- Ms.Jamila Sujud, Tajikistan
(Coordinator of the Central Asian Journalistic Network on Environment and Health)**

04).North East Asia Director - Mr.Yasuyoshi Tanaka, Japan
(President of the Japanese Forum of Environmental Journalists -JFEJ)*

05).South Asian Director - Mr.Aftab Zahoor, Pakistan
(Head of the Pakistan Forum for Environmental Journalists -PFEJ)*

06).South East Asia Director: Mr.Quoc Dzung, Vietnam
(Executive Vice President of the Vietnam Forum of Environmental Journalists- VFEJ)*

07).South Pacific Director - Ms.Nina Ratulele, Fiji
(News correspondent of the Islands Business Magazine and Media consultant) ***

08).Secretary /Chief Executive - Mr.Dharman Wickremaratne, Sri Lanka
(Editor of the Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum-SLEJF) *

09).Deputy secretary General - Mr. Yang Ming-sen, China
(Secretary General of the China Forum of Environmental Journalists -CFEJ) *

Executive Members (8)

10).Ms.Souparno Banerjee, India
(Coordinator of the Media Resource Centre, - Centre for Science and Environment -CSE, Mumbai - India)*

11).Mr.Matai Akauola, Fiji
(Manager & Training Coordinator of the Pacific Island News Association -PINA)*

12).Mr.Owais Aslam Ali, Pakistan
(Secretary General of the Pakistan Press Foundation -PPF)*

13).Ms.Elizabeth Roxas, Philippines
(Executive Director of the Environmental Broadcast Circle, EBC)*

14).Mr. lya Gridneff, Australia***
(Papua New Guinea Correspondent of Australian Associated Press- APP)

15).Mr.Joseph Joh, South Korea***
(Managing Editor - The Seoul Times, South Korea)

16).Mr.Eurico Pereira, East Timor ***
(Senior producer of Radio Rakambia- East Timor)

17).Ms.Ellaha Sadat, Afghanistan* *
(Media Monitor/ Environmental Analyst of IFES/ ASA)

Auditors (2)
18).Mr.EK Visarakhun, Cambodia
(President of the Cambodia Media Forum on Environment, (CMFE)*

19).Ms.Silafaga Lalua, Tuvalu
(Publication Coordinator of the Tuvalu Media Department)* *

* Full Member organisation Representatives - 12 (Minimum 10)
** Associate member organisation Representatives -03 (Maximum 05)
*** Individual member Representatives - 04 (Maximum 04)

****APFEJ Past President's - Year 1985 to 2009
01).Forum of Environmental Journalists of India - FEJI
(February 1985 to January 1988)
Representative: Chanchal Sakar, India - South Asia
Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee

02). Nepal Forum of Environmental Journalists -NEFEJ
(January 1988 to October 1990)
Representative: Aditya Man Shrestha, Nepal - South Asia

03).Philippines Environmental Journalists Inc - PEJI
(October 1990 to August 08, 1991)
Representative: Adlai J Amor, Philippines - South East Asia

04) Malaysian forum of Environmental Journalists( MFEJ)- South East Asia
Chairman of the Steering Group
Representative: Philip Mathews, Malaysia
(August 09, 1991 to April, 1992)

05).Malaysian forum of Environmental Journalists - MFEJ
(April 1992 to November 1993)
Representative: Philip Mathews, Malaysia - South East Asia

06).Philippines Environmental Journalists Inc - PEJI
(November 1993 to November 1995)
Representative: Manuel Satorre Jr, Philippines - South East Asia

07).Singapore forum of Environmental Journalists - ECO
Representative: Ivan Lim Sin Chin, Singapore - South East Asia
(November 1995 to February 1998)

08)China Forum of Environmental Journalists -CFEJ, North East Asia
Chairman of the Steering Group
Representative: Yang Mao, China
(February 06, 1998 to October 17, 1998)

09).Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum - SLEJF
(October 18, 1998 to October 26, 2002)
Representative: Dharman Wickremaratne, Sri Lanka - South Asia

10).Bangladesh Forum of Environmental Journalists (FEJB)
(October 27, 2002 to May 05, 2009)
Representative: Quamrul Islam Chowdhury, Bangladesh - South Asia

11)Sri Lanka Environmental Journalists Forum(SLEJF) - South Asia
Chairman of the Steering Group
Representative: Dharman Wickremaratne, Sri Lanka.
(May 06, 2009 to October 18, 2009)

12).Green Women Environmental Media Agency, Kazakhstan
Representative: Svetlana Dylevskaya, Kazakhstan - Central Asia
(October 19, 2009 to present)

For further information please visit:
http://www.environm entaljournalists .org
or contact,
Dharman Wickremaratne
Secretary /Chief Executive
Asia Pacific forum of Environmental Journalists( APFEJ) Secretariat
PO Box 26
434/3 Sri Jayawardenapura
Sri Lanka.
Skype: ejournalists
E-mail: <ejournalists@ sltnet.lk>,<ejournalists@ gmail.com>
http://www.environm entaljournalists .org
http://www.flickr. com/photos/ ejournalists

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[creative-radio] Ups and Downs for Canadian Campus Radio funding

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From: Kevin Matthews <kevin@ncra.ca>
Date: 2009/11/24
Subject: [ncralist] Ups and Downs for Campus Radio funding
To: NCRA Members , NCRA general list


-- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --
*apologies for x-posting*
pdf version available at
http://ncra.ca/news/ups-and-downs-for-campus-radio-funding

Ups and Downs for Campus Radio funding

Effects of the recession only one factor in the challenge of sustaining
community-based radio

Ottawa, 20 November, 2009 -- Campus radio stations offer many benefits to
their student body, and campus and community radio is as relevant and vital
as ever. But communicating that value to students is a big job.

The results are mixed: On the downside, SoundFM (CKMS 100.3 FM U of
Waterloo) recently lost a student referendum to restore their student levy
to just $2.50/term, after losing their student funding the previous year in
a contentious referendum. That was a blow that amounted to more than 75%
reduction in their operating budget.

Steve Krysak is President of SoundFM and his team are working on their
options. Says Krysak: "Without financial support from our campus we have
been forced to make severe cutbacks and drastic changes to our operations.
This latest blow has made it much harder to keep producing quality
programming for our community."

All the while, every station is facing the rising costs of training,
personnel, equipment, services, and every aspect of running a radio station.

On the upside, most campus stations can still rely on steady support from
their student body. For instance, Simon Fraser University students voted
last year to increase their annual levy for CJSF (90.1 FM SFU, Burnaby).
CJSW (90.9 FM U of Calgary) is also thriving -- after years of planning and
saving up, they have just completed building their new studios. (See details
at http://www.cjsw.com/). In other demonstrations of local support, CJAM
(99.1 FM U of Windsor) and CKCU (93.1 FM Carleton U, Ottawa) both recently
surpassed their goals for community donations in their on-air pledge drives.

The reasons to support campus radio are many, and the value of community
stations goes far deeper than what is heard on the air. Programming content,
to be sure, is valuable -- and costly to create, even using volunteers.
Beyond this, campus radio stations give skills training to community
members, promotional opportunities to local artists and community groups,
support for emerging artists and new ideas, local news and information, and
a vital role in local community development. Campus and community
broadcasters are also the only broadcasters mandated to provide public
access to the airwaves.

Currently, the CRTC is reviewing their Community and Campus radio policies.
The NCRA and partners are working to build up a national funding mechanism
for campus and community radio. All this while seeking regulatory changes to
support stations' work.

Even once we're successful in these avenues, the role of local listeners is
still going to be the primary one for funding community-based radio.

Charlotte Bourne, NCRA President explains: "We do need to develop more
diverse funding opportunities for campus and community stations, because
our mission gets more and more expensive and we need to be strong and stable
as a sector. But listener support is still a core value, and we will always
have to rely on community donors -- the people who know first-hand what
we're providing to communities."

On campuses, that means students: Campus stations work best when supported
by a reasonable levy on student fees (preferably indexed to inflation), in
recognition of the training and opportunities they provide to students, as
well as local cultural support and programming, and their role in enriching
campus life.

Community-owned and operated, not-for-profit, listener-supported radio is
surviving in the face of many challenges, but it is vulnerable in many
places. In light of changes and cutbacks in the private broadcasting sector
and CBC/Radio-Canada, its mandate is more important than ever.


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National Campus and Community Radio Association
l'Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires
www.ncra.ca . 1 866 859 8086 . 613 321 1440

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[creative-radio] Violence Against Women Radio Programs available for download in the AMARC website

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From: Suman Basnet <suman_basnet@asiapacific.amarc.org>
Date: 2009/11/24
Subject: [Asiapacific-general] Programs available for doenload in the AMARC
website on Violence Against Women
To: AMARC_AP_General_List <asiapacific-general@lists.amarc.org>

Dear All

The 16 days activism on Violence Against Women begins from tomorrow the 25
November with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against
Women. I urge you all to visit the AMARC website at:
http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=16_Days_Against_Violence_on_Women_2009_audios
to listen to the programmes from all over the world and download for
re-broadcasting from your station.

I wish to draw your attention to the programmes from Asia Pacific that have
been uploaded on the website so far. They are:


1. Title of the program: The Danger of HIV-AIDS

Name of organization: One World South Asia

Country: India

Type of program: Magazine
Length: 17 minutes 26 seconds
Language of the program: Hindi

Summary: India is among the countries with the highest number of persons
living with HIV/AIDS in the world today, although the overall prevalence
remains low. Some states experience a generalized epidemic with the virus
transmitted from high-risk groups into the general population. This radio
programme brings information to the listeners about this disease.

2. Title of the program: International Women's Day

Name of organisation: One World South Asia

Country: India

Type of program: Radio Spot
Length: 2 minutes 51 seconds
Language of the program: Sinhala

Summary: International Women's day is celebrated on 8th March every year.
Women did not have the freedom to celebrate a women's day in the past. Women
who gathered to celebrate women's day were beaten by the police and was tear
gassed in 1983. But today women have the freedom to celebrate Women's day.
This programme is produced by 'The Women and Media Collective' in Sri Lanka
as part of the 'Kadathurawen Eha' programme series.

3. Title of the program: Women's rights are human rights
Name of organisation: One World South Asia

Country: India

Type of program: Radio Spot
Length: 2 minutes 31 seconds
Language of the program: Sinhala
Summary: Many conventional attitudes and traditions have created an unequal
situation for women. Because of this most women and young girls face
different forms of violence and sexual harassment. Should we not think of
constructing a just and equal society that is free from violence and
discrimination? That is the question posed by this radio programme produced
by 'The Women and Media Collective' in Sri Lanka as part of the
'Kadathurawen Eha' programme series.

4. Title of the program: Empowerment of Women
Name of person/organisation: One World South Asia

Country: India

Type of program: Magazine

Length: 20 minutes 4 seconds
Language of the program: Hindi
Summary: Women's empowerment is a process through which women gain greater
share or control over resources - material, human and intellectual like
knowledge, information, ideas and financial resources like money. It also
implies enhanced participation in decision-making in home, community,
society and nation. According to the Country Report of Government of India,
"Empowerment' means moving from a position of enforced powerlessness to one
of power".

5. Title of the program: Safety of children in schools
Name of organization: One World South Asia

Country: India

Type of program: Magazine

Length: 4 minutes 16 seconds
Language of the program: Hindi

Summary: Children face a threat to their safety and security in various
places including schools. The problem is multiplied in case of the girl
child. This radio programme produced by 'Jagori' stresses on the urgent need
to address these issues and bring about awareness and subsequent changes in
this situation.

6. Title of the program: The rapist was brought to the martial court
Name of organisation: VHR (Voice of Human Rights) Media / VHRmedia.com

Country: Indonesia

Type of program: Storytelling

Length: 16 minutes

Language of the program: English

When was the program broadcasted: September 2005
Summary: Indun, a teacher in Lampung, Sumatra, Indonesia, worked for
community to combat illiteracy. Her job was a program of Gerwani -a woman
association affiliated to Communist Party. As a member of the association,
Indun actively taught in a school at a remote place. Unfortunately, a
tragedy in 1965 changed everything. And this is Indun's story that she told
in 2001.
This storytelling is produced by Voice of Human Rights Radio Program.
Wirayanti works as producer. The script is written by Landung Simatupang.
Interview by Yayan W. The story is narrated by Landung Simatupang. Endah
Widyastuty-Rei Project as music director. Sound editing and mixing done by
Anie Ismawati.

7. Title of the program: HIV AIDs Programme

Name of organisation: Environment Cycle Radio (ECR FM 104.2
MHz)
Country: Nepal

Subject of the program: Informative feature

Length: 1 hour 25 seconds

Language of the program: Nepali

Summary: The programme has been made for World AIDs Day with the aim of
creating awareness and gives information about HIV AIDs and other sexually
transmitted diseases. The programme shares gender disaggregated data about
persons living with AIDs and the different groups (drug users, family,
children, drug users, LGBT, etc) that are affected by the disease in Nepal.

8. Title of the program: Mahila Birudhra Himsa (Violence Against Women)
Name of organisation: Environment Cycle Radio (ECR FM 104.2 MHz)
Country: Nepal

Type of program: Studio based discussion programme
Length: 1 hour 44 seconds
Language of the program: Nepali
Summary: The programme has been prepared especially for the 25 November
"International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women" by the
AMARC WIN member – women division of ECR FM. The programme talks about
domestic violence and shares light on the different forms of it. It also
enlightens the listeners on the law which has made domestic violence illegal
in Nepal.

9. Title of the program: Mahila Adhikar (Women's Rights)

Name of organization: Environment Cycle Radio (ECR FM 104.2 MHz)

Country: Nepal

Type of programme: Feature programme

Length: 58 minutes 58 seconds

Language of the programme: Nepali

Summary: The programme has been prepared especially for the 29 November
"International Women's Human Rights Defenders Day" by the AMARC WIN member –
women division of ECR FM. The programme creates awareness about women's
rights, demands the right to be translated into action and states that for
the country to develop women's right should be upheld. It throws light on
the status of women in Nepal where women constitute 51% percent of the total
population.

10. Title of the program: Stop Violence Against Women

Name of organization: Radio Swara Tamborolangi'

Country: Indonesia

Type of program: Public Service Announcement

Length: 1 minute 2 seconds

Language of the program: English

Summary: This public service message calls for end of violence against
women. The scenario created here is the domestic violence which results from
gambling habit of the husband.

This is an opportunity for you to raise awareness on the issue and stop
violence against women. We will keep you updated on further uploads.

I thank all of you for your support to the AMARC radio campaign and wish a
successful campaign ahead.

Thanking you and with warmest regards, Suman

____________________
Suman Basnet
Regional Coordinator
AMARC Asia Pacific
Kathmandu, Nepal
Phone: +977 1 5554811
Fax: +977 1 5521714
http://www.asiapacific.amarc.org


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[creative-radio] Muanda Bas Congo: le responsable de la radio communautaire interpellé par la mairie

 

Lundi 23 Novembre 2009 à 12:31:58

http://www.radiookapi.net/index.php?i=53&a=25574

La radio communautaire de Muanda, située à 210 kilomètres à l'ouest de
Matadi, se dit victime de menaces de la part des autorités politico
administratives, notamment la marie de Boma. Selon Jean Ndombasi,
responsable de cette radio, la mairie de Boma reproche à la radio
d'attiser le feu entre les communautés locales de base et les entreprises
pétrolières installées dans ce territoire et de faire la publicité de
certains produits aphrodisiaques, rapporte radiookapi.net

« En ce qui concerne les entreprises pétrolières, vous savez qu'il y a un
comité de concertation habilité à canaliser les besoins de la communauté
locale aux seins de ces entreprises. Et si quelque part ce comité de
concertation ne s'assume pas et qu'il y a des foyers de tension partout,
la radio communautaire de Muanda doit faire parler les uns et les autres.
Et si le contexte exige que pour parle,r il faut une autorisation des USA,
en quoi la radio communautaire de Muanda est-elle coupable ? Pour les
produits aphrodisiaques. C'est quel produit ? C'est quel distributeur,
c'est quelle maison ? C'est quelle émission et quel animateur ? Je pense
que monsieur le maire a des preuves, car la presse est régie par des
textes. Les villageois barricadent la route, prennent en otage les
expatriés d'une manière impartial. C'est notre travail , la radio ne doit
pas se taire pour ces faits lui reprochés. » , a indiqué Jean Ndombasi de
la radio communautaire de Muanda.

Du côté de la mairie, cette correspondance est une interpellation,
question de demander à cette radio de considérer son véritable rôle. José
Niongo Nsuami , maire de la ville de Boma précise : « Une radio
communautaire a pour rôle d'informer, former et accompagner la population.
Mais quand une radio quitte cette mission là pour être un outil de
médiatisation des conflits au lieu que ça soit le canal par lequel les
conflits doivent se régler, elle devient une poudrière pour la population.
Voilà pourquoi nous avons mis en garde par écrit et nous voulons que la
radio communautaire de Muanda puisse nous aider à asseoir la paix. »

Copyright Radio Okapi

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[creative-radio] Honduras: Radio Progreso raid shows how military censor news media

 

Radio Progreso raid shows how military censor news media

http://www.rsf.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=35075

With just six days to go to controversial general elections, Reporters
Without Borders is today posting a video of a raid on Radio Progreso, a
radio station based in the northern town of El Progreso that was one of
the first victims of last June's coup d'état.

Just hours after the democratically-elected president, Manuel Zelaya, was
deposed and deported on 28 June, 25 soldiers raided Radio Progreso to
prevent it broadcasting any information about the coup.>

The general elections that the de facto authorities are planning to hold
on 29 November have been fiercely criticised both within Honduras and by a
segment of the internal community and the opposition media are expected to
have problems during the last week of the election campaign.

Esdras Amado López, the head of Canal 36 television, reported on 20
November that his station has been closed by the authorities again. It was
already closed for a while in September and has often been censored.
Pro-coup media are meanwhile exposed to the possibility of street
violence, as an attack on the Tegucigalpa-based station HRN on 4 November
already showed.

Founded by Jesuits 60 years ago and nowadays run by Father Ismael Moreno
(also known as "Padre Melo"), Radio Progreso employs around 10 - mainly
young - reporters while involving its listeners in the preparation of many
of its news, educational and musical programmes. It is fiercely
independent and often criticised President Zelaya before the coup.

The footage shown in the video was filmed by the staff of Radio Progreso,
which Reporters Without Borders and six other international press freedom
organisations met during a joint visit to Honduras from 1 to 7 November
(see 13 November release).

The other organisations that took part in this international press freedom
mission to Honduras were the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC), Freevoice, International Media Support (IMS), the
World Association of Newspapers WAN), the International Federation of
Journalists (IFJ) and Article 19.

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgfbWwLHjI0

En la ciudad de El Progreso (norte del pais), cuatro horas después del
golpe del 28 de junio de 2009, las instalaciones de Radio Progreso, una
emisora educativa fundada y animada por la comunidad jesuita, están
sitiadas por militares. Las autoridades obligan a la redacción a cerrar en
el acto todas las operaciones.

El director, Ismael Moreno, informó en un comunicado que personas del
pueblo se interponieron, evitando así violencias más graves. En noviembre
de 2009, Reporteros sin Fronteras encontró al equipo de Radio Progreso.

Reporters Without Borders: Radio Progreso

Four hours after the coup detat on 28 june 2009, in the city of El
Progreso (in the north of the country), the offices of Radio Progresso, an
educational radio station founded and run by the Jesuit community, were
taken over by the army. The authorities forced the staff to immediately
stop all activity.

The director, Ismael Moreno, highlighted in a press release that the
villagers intervened, thereby avoiding more serious violence. In November
2009, Reporters Without Borders met with the Radio Progreso team.

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