The theme of the Deutsche Well Global Media Forum 2015 is "Media and foreign policy in the digital age". It will explore how the culture of politics is changing, and the opportunities and risks facing foreign policy.
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Indigenous peoples are being heard in New York during a week of activism on climate change, native people’s rights and indigenous philanthropy.
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Faith groups are playing a significant role in communicating the need for action on climate change in the run-up to a massive planned demonstration, interfaith conference and U.N. meeting in New York.
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The quarterly journal Media Development in its new issue highlights social, economic and communications challenges affecting the populations of thousands of islands in the South Pacific.
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Open Society Foundations publishes new report investigating the forces affecting digital media and journalism in 56 countries worldwide....
September 13 marks seven years since the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
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A new “truly human-centered” approach to development should include “freedom of expression and media development,” according to UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.
...A recent study of Palestinian media shows that women are vastly under-represented on both sides of the news report, as journalists and in the content.
...The Toronto-based IFEX network notes in a website story that the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) has been lobbying the U.N. to include access to information in the official Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
...Supporters of WACC are seeing the results of its global work advancing communication rights in the 2013 annual report
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