Information access under threat
A recently released UNESCO report confirms comprehensively what many of us have sensed: the rise of social media and digital communication platforms have...
21 March, 2022
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News media and disinformation in an unpredictable world
The 50th anniversary celebrations of NGO CSW/NY, which organizes the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)...
07 March, 2022
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Media ‘platforming’ and the oxygen of publicity
In 1985, following the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight by a Shi’ite Muslim group, UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher accused the...
22 February, 2022
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Tackling Digital Colonialism
Civil Society in the South needs to be empowered to prevent a new “Scramble for Africa” as tech giants seek to access and...
07 February, 2022
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‘Journalist’ or ‘Activist’?
In a recent training session for current and would be journalists, a repeated question came up – can a journalist be an activist?...
24 January, 2022
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New threat to human rights in Putin’s Russia
Russia’s supreme court has ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest human rights group. Memorial has joined a growing list of investigative...
10 January, 2022
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Chile at a Crossroads
Optimism brought about by drafting of new constitution dampened by polarizing presidential election Chile, a country known for being among the most prosperous and...
13 December, 2021
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Are we our worst enemies in an increasingly authoritarian world?
In its 2021 report on the Global State of Democracy, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) stated that “the number...
29 November, 2021
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Raising the bar in climate change communication #COP26
Thanks to the just-concluded UN climate summit COP26 (Glasgow, 31 Oct-12 November), conditions were just right to see climate change communication at its best, or...
15 November, 2021
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A wake up call to the spectre of ‘anti-woke’ news
There is widespread dismay at the spectre of former US President Donald Trump setting up his own social media app provocatively named TRUTH. A...
01 November, 2021
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A global call to defend independent journalism
The last time a working journalist won the Nobel Peace Prize, Europe – and eventually nations around the globe - were on the...
18 October, 2021
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Language diversity and the Internet
Global internet freedom has declined for the 11th consecutive year, according to the latest report from Freedom House. “Freedom on the Internet 2021” focuses...
04 October, 2021
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