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* Antibiotic halves HIV/Aids deaths *

 * Antibiotic halves HIV/Aids deaths *
A common antibiotic could nearly halve the death rate in HIV-positive children in Africa, research suggests.
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Journalists Under Fire - East & Southern Africa

Journalists Under Fire - East & Southern Africa
A campaign to call attention to the dangers journalists face in East and Southern Africa. This campaign will take place every year on May 3. The 2003 Journalists Under Fire campaign offered an information package detailing the state of free expression in each of the 11 member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Included in the package was also a report on the representation of women in the media in Southern Africa. As part of the 2003 campaign, journalists were encouraged to participate in efforts to promote media freedom and freedom of expression in this region by using these materials. To facilitate this process, texts, graphics, and illustrations were made available electronically. Each year, new advocacy elements will be added to the campaign.
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KRITI Film Club - India

KRITI Film Club - India
A club of individuals undertaking desk-based and action research, participatory training, and evaluation/assessment studies on range of development issues - health, education, environment, labour, violence, law and human rights, and gender concepts and practice. This group of development thinkers and actors uses film as one of the many mediums to make development holistic and make development theory more people-oriented, accountable, and interactive. The KRITI Film Club screens documentary and mainstream films and organises slide shows on a range of issues. It aims to provide a space for brainstorming and sharing experiences on various social issues highlighted in the films. Another key focus of the club is helping increase access of independent films to a larger audience beyond those who attend film festivals and special screenings.
Contact KRITI Film Club kritidpc@vsnl.com

Project Completion Report: Information & Education Communication Campaign For Advocacy in the Disability Sector of Uganda

Project Completion Report: Information & Education Communication Campaign For Advocacy in the Disability Sector of Uganda
Prepared by Kasim Sajjabi & Nick Ishmael-Perkins
In 2001, the National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda (NUDIPU), in conjunction with Leonard Cheshire International, Radio for Development (RfD), and Action on Disability and Development (ADD), initiated a 22-month radio-based public education campaign to increase awareness of disability issues in Uganda. In this evaluation, lessons learned are detailed at the project, sector, and development practice levels.
Contact Nick Ishmael-Perkins nishmael@rfd.org.uk

Google caves in to Chinese censorship; omits banned sites from search engine


Google caves in to Chinese censorship; omits banned sites from search engine
"Google Inc.'s recently launched news service in China doesn't display results from Web sites blocked by that country's authorities, raising prickly questions for an online search engine that has famously promised to "do no evil."
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ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Promotes Indigenous Films, Media

ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Promotes Indigenous Films, Media
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ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Promotes Indigenous Films, Media

By Agnieszka Portalewska and Gabrielle Berlinger
October 29, 2004

From October 20 to 24 the imagineNATIVE film festival drew hundreds of indigenous and non-indigenous film enthusiasts from around the globe to diverse downtown Toronto, Canada.

Celebrating its fifth year, participants noted that this was the most successful festival yet. The imagineNATIVE film festival is one of the few solely indigenous-run and programmed festivals in the arts community today.

With some of the most innovative aboriginal creators of film, video, radio, and new media in attendance, more than 90 films were screened, including shorts, documentaries, narrative feature films, children's animation, and experimentals. Material covered a wide range of topics relevant to indigenous communities, from Native legends, spiritual healing, identity, and respect for elders, to forced displacement, drug and alcohol addiction, depression, police brutality, and land rights.

"The '90s were the age of desktop publishing, but today we live in the age of desktop broadcasting," exclaimed Chris Spence of Aboriginal Voices Radio in Canada. Many festival participants stressed that media literacy is one of the most important skills younger generations have to learn.

Festival highlights included the showing of the first indigenous-made feature-length film from the islands of Fiji, Pear ta Ma 'on Maf/The Land Has Eyes by Rotuan director Vilsoni Herenik. The first Palaw'an feature-length film from the indigenous people of South Palawan, Phillipines, Basal Banar , directed by Kanadan Balintagos, was also shown. The Russian Federation submitted a feature about forcibly displaced Nomadic Chukchi hunters, titled Arctic Troy and directed by Aleksei Vakhrushev.

Several short films produced by aboriginal youth in James Bay, British Columbia, and Inukjuak, Quebec, were among the festival's other attractions. In addition, the program featured multiple films spotlighting Australian Aboriginal issues.

Free workshops and panels on fundraising, marketing, and distribution of films gave filmmakers and festival participants further artistic and professional development skills.

Indigenous culture today can be reflected through the use of state-of-the-art media technology. Indigenous-produced media fills in the gaps in mainstream media, confronts decades of negative coverage, and influences how others think about aboriginal people and their positions in society, often debunking stereotypes.

According to Native prophecies, the seventh generation is marked to revitalize traditional ways and become the voice of the people. Native artists, musicians, actors and activists are making waves in all disciplines, combining innovative technology with traditional life ways to stretch the limits of the media industry. In this manner, they have successfully become their own actors, directors, producers and promoters.

Native filmmakers, musicians, actors and artists are telling their stories by combining the framework of traditional media with the industry's resources. With consumer access to technological innovations, these indigenous communities are demonstrating how we have launched into an era of desktop production, and how greatly it can benefit future generations.

The award winners for the 2004 imagiNATIVE film festival are as follows:

The Alanis Obomsawin Best Documentary Award : Vincent Blackhawk Aamodt for The Ghost Riders

Best Dramatic Feature : Vilsoni Hereniko for Pear ta Ma 'On Maf / The Land Has Eyes

The Cynthia Lickers-Sage Award for Emerging Talent : Ariel Lighteningchild for Swallow

Best Radio : Andre Morisseau for Great Indian Bus Tour

Best New Media : Kokonda Dub for Fire This Time

Best Television : Zacharias Kunuk for Kunuk Family Reunion

Best Short Drama : Cedar Sherbert for Memory

Best Experimental : Terrance Houle for Wagon Burner

Drama Pitch Prize : Dawn Dumont for Elliot

Documentary Pitch Prize : Tasha Hubbard for Girl

Submissions for the 2005 festival are due on June 15, 2005. Visit  http://www.imagineNATIVE.org/ or call 416-585-2333 for more information and application forms.

[ImagiNATIVE Film Schedule ] 10/29/2004
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