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WACC Member Awarded Chavkin Prize 
The North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) in New York announced the selection of Jane Regan and Daniel Morel as the 2004 co-recipients of the Samuel Chavkin Prize for Integrity in Latin American Journalism. The award focuses on journalists whose work reflects a commitment to social justice in the region. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1571

Maori Television Boosts Kiwi Culture and Language 
by Althea Campbell, Christian World Service, New Zealand 
In colonial times in Aotearoa New Zealand, the emphasis was on assimilation of the Maori people into English culture.  Children were not allowed to speak Maori at school and many parents encouraged this so they would “do well” in the white man’s world.  Add to this the large-scale urbanization of Maori, away from their rural heartland where the language was still spoken, after World War II and the Maori  language, and therefore Maori culture, was almost lost altogether. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1569

'Bollywood Stole Our Folk Song' 
Piracy, the patenting of Basmati rice, traditional folk songs and open source software were among the issues debated by cultural rights activists, bio-diversity campaigners, academics, lawyers, communicators and students at the latest workshop on intellectual property rights (IPR) supported by WACC. Held in Bangalore, India in April, and organised by VOICES, Madhyam and the Alternative Law Forum (ALF), the workshop mapped out links between IPR and the media. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1568

Faith Can be a Risk Factor for HIV in Africa 
Uganda’s success in significantly reducing HIV/Aids prevalence and new infection rates in the last ten years is a sign of hope in turning the tide of Aids in Africa. Uganda is often seen as an example for other African countries.  Christian communicators from around Africa gathered in Kampala in March 2004 to take part in a meeting sponsored by the Africa Region of WACC on “Aids in Africa: Communicating Behaviour Change.”  The two-day seminar was hosted by the Uganda Media Women’s Association who are a WACC member organisation based in Kampala. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1567

Migrants and Their Right to Communicate 
A workshop on migrants and their right to communicate was run by WACC-Latin America and supported by the Global Studies Programme of WACC this March. The event was held at Tecún Umán, Guatemala close to the Mexican border on a route used heavily by migrants, many of them without legal documentation, travelling from Latin America into the USA. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1566


WACC signs up to European Manifesto for Minority Media 
The World Association for Christian Communication has endorsed the European Manifesto for Minority Community Media, coordinated by Online/More Colour in the Media. The Manifesto calls for the recognition of the role minority community media play in Europe. It has been drafted by a transnational network of national platforms of minority community media, and approved by national, regional and local groups across Europe. The signatures will be presented during the European elections in 2004 to the President of the European Parliament. To find out more go to: 
http://www.multicultural.net/manifesto/index.htm 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1565

The Agenda, Feminist Media Project 
empowering women for gender equity 
A combination of love, commitment and gender vision has been the driving force during Agenda's existence as a feminist media project, that set out in 1987 to give women a forum and a voice to articulate their needs towards transforming unequal gender relations in South Africa.  They felt that there was a need to extend the debates that had already begun around gender issues, bring gender/women‚s liberation into the big debates of the day and into the centre for the movements for liberation and transformation.  This need, for them, was realised through the publication of the first issue of the journal Agenda. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1564

Communiqué - Seminar on AIDS in Africa: Communicating for Behavioural Change 
March 16 – 17, 2004, Kampala, Uganda 
“Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although He existed in the form of God not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant and being in the likeness of men” (Philippians 2:5-7) 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1563

They Shoot Journalists, Don’t They? 
By Norman Solomon 
To encourage restraint in war coverage, governments don’t need to shoot journalists -- though sometimes that’s helpful. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1562

WSIS Skirts Three Key Issues 
World Intellectual Property Rights Day 26th April 2004  The recent World Summit on the Information Society adopted a declaration  and action plan aimed at Œa people-oriented information society where  everyone can create, access and share information and knowledge‚. However,  due to basic disagreements, decisions were postponed on two key issues  (global Internet governance and creating a Digital Solidarity Fund) while  another key issue (intellectual property) was hardly addressed. 
http://www.wacc.org.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1556








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