* 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.
Full story:

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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.

http://www.comminit.com/africa/experiences/pds32003/experiences-2350.html

Contact Luckson Chipare director@misa.org

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.

http://www.comminit.com/experiences/pds92004/experiences-2071.html

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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.

http://www.comminit.com/africa/evaluations/evaluations/sld-2632.html

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

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

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"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

http://www.imaginenative.org/schedule.html

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REVIEW: Passport to World Band Radio 2005

Passport to World Band Radio 2005

Passport to World Band Radio is a deservedly popular publication. The 2005 edition, published in October 2004, marks its 21st anniversary. Its content and format have not changed much in the 21 years it has been published, but then why should they? PWBR is a labour of love for those who produce it, and it's aimed squarely at those who listen to shortwave for information and entertainment. This differentiates it from the World Radio TV Handbook, which is also a "trade directory" for the world's broadcasting industry.

Read our review at

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/media/productreviews/booklist/passport.html

US government plans to smuggle radios into N Korea

US government plans to smuggle radios into N Korea

The US government has now officially decided in principle to smuggle small radios into North Korea as part of its to $2 million annual plan to boost radio broadcasts toward North Korea. The idea is not new - and has been attempted on a small scale by unofficial groups, to the irritation of South Korea. In March 2003, police in the South blocked a Korean-American pastor, Douglas E. Shin, as he and colleagues prepared to send 700 radios across the border slung from 22 helium-filled balloons. However, using balloons is apparently not an option being taken seriously in Washington. "I don't see radios in balloons as particularly tenable," said an aide on Capitol Hill involved in the planning of the North Korea project.

Another plan that worked in Cuba has also been ruled out. In 2001 and 2002, American diplomats in Havana delivered more than 1,000 shortwave radios so Cubans could tune in to Radio Marti. The radios were taken to Havana in diplomatic pouches, but that's not possible in North Korea because the two countries don't have diplomatic relations.

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Hate broadcasts continue in Ivory Coast or UN says Ivory Coast hate broadcasts have ended

Blog: Media Network Weblog Friday, November 19, 2004

Post: Hate broadcasts continues in Ivory Coast

Link:  http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/2004_11_14_medianetwork_archive.html#110086247593984872

Hate broadcasts continues in Ivory Coast

Despite efforts by the UN Security Council to bring and end to the Hate broadcasts in the Ivory Coast, hate material continues to be aired. The government of the Ivory Coast defends them. According to President Laurent Gbago, they are justified because the country is in a state of war. Ivorian Radio Television, RTI, has been urging supporters of the President onto the streets where mobs have ransacked foreign-owned businesses and homes and, according to some reports, raped European women. RTI has been broadcasting patriotic songs, pictures of bloodied demonstrators allegedly killed by French troops, and appeals by politicians, preachers and Gbagbo loyalists to defend the nation against "settlers" and "imperialists."

According to RTI's Director General, Jean Paul Dahily, "It is not the journalists who are saying these things, it is the people." He said that "Radio and television are a weapon of the state at a time of war." Dahily took control of RTI after Government soldiers occupied RTI's headquarters and locked out the station's previous director, who had been appointed by a rebel communications minister in a power-sharing Cabinet formed under the truce accord. The FM relay stations of the BBC, VOA and Radio France International have been taken off the air, so people in the capital cannot hear the other side of the story.
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UN says Ivory Coast hate broadcasts have ended

Link: http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/2004_11_14_medianetwork_archive.html#110071385353003489

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The United Nations says it has intervened to stop Ivory Coast radio and television stations from broadcasting hate messages aimed at French nationals and other foreigners(see EJC media news 17/11/04). "Hate messages have given way to calls for return to work and the exercise of

restraint," UN chief spokesman Fred Eckhard said. "National radio and television have been airing peace messages significantly different in tone and content to the ones we have been hearing of late," Mr Eckhard told reporters. A UN expert on the prevention of genocide had called on the Ivory Coast authorities on Monday to condemn hate speech and put an immediate end to the messages broadcast on government-run stations, which were reminiscent of the virulent hate broadcasts that helped drive Rwanda's 1994 genocide of 800,000 people.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

 RSF says media in Ivory Coast broadcasting hate messages

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International press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says that the state media in Ivory Coast have become the exclusive mouthpiece of the government and its allies, and are being used to promote street demonstrations. RSF says that with few exceptions, the reports carried on Radio Côte d'Ivoire (RCI) and RadioTélévision Ivoirienne (RTI) have strayed completely from journalism into propaganda. Interspersed with nationalistic songs, phone-in contributions and interviews, RCI presenters flatter the "patriotism" of their listeners.

RSF also notes that a significant part of the press was silenced after the ransacking of several opposition newspapers by pro-government militia, the sabotaging of the FM transmitters that relay the programming of Radio France Internationale (RFI), the BBC World Service and Africa N°1, and the abrupt removal of RTI's director-general and his replacement by a government supporter, Jean-Paul Dahily.

Full RSF report:

Abidjan state media mix propaganda, disinformation and incitement to riot

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=11824
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RESURRECT LOCAL RADIO

RESURRECT LOCAL RADIO

[Commentary] Since the 1996 deregulation law unleashed an unparalleled wave of monopolization, the radio service many of us grew up with has vanished. Local newscasts are a memory. Homegrown musicians might as well play on the sidewalk for quarters. Emergency authorities sometimes can't get bulletins aired in small towns, whose stations are mere relays for robotic

music-feeds from half a continent away. A potential savior is low power radio (LPFM), tiny, nonprofit radio stations with limited (~3.5 miles) reach and low start-up costs (~$6,000). LPFM has enormous potential: To beam to underserved localities, to provide a forum for voices that existing broadcasters ignore, to rededicate a sliver of the spectrum to community service, to validate local realities and plans, to remind us all that the cornerstone of U.S. broadcasting has for 75 years been something called localism, the geographic counterpart to the federalism that is praised as rapturously as it is ignored. LPFM could become a reality for many more communities across the country, but Congress needs to act to make it happen. [SOURCE: Knight Ridder Newspapers, AUTHOR: Edward Wasserman, Washington and Lee University]

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BURKINA FASO: JOURNALIST HELD WITHOUT CHARGE
After nearly a week since his arrest, N'Do Mathieu, chief editor of
the weekly San Finna, is still being held in solitary confinement at
the police barracks of the 'Compagnie Republicaine de Securitie
(CRS)' in Ouagadougou, the capital. N'Do was picked up by security
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IVORY COAST: JOURNALIST KILLED DURING CLASHES WITH FRENCH TROOPS
Antoine Massé, a local correspondent for "Le Courrier d'Abidjan", a
privately-owned daily that supports President Laurent Gbagbo, was
killed on the morning of 7 November 2004 during clashes between the
Ivorian army, demonstrators and members of the French peacekeeping
force (Force Licorne), Reporters sans frontières (RSF), has
confirmed. "Le Courrier d'Abidjan" reported that Massé, who was also
a literature professor, was fatally shot as he covered a
demonstration aimed at blocking the eastward advance of French troops
from Man towards Abidjan.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=25653

MOZAMBIQUE: RENAMO BANS TELEVISION FROM FILMING ELECTION CAMPAIGNS
On November 6 2004, local officials of Mozambique's former rebel
movement Resistencia Nacional de Mozambique (Renamo), banned a film
crew of the public television, TVM, from filming the Renamo election
campaign in two northern towns, Mozambique Island and Nacala, despite
the movement's consistent complaints that TVM does not give it
sufficient coverage. Both towns are regarded as Renamo strongholds.
Further details: http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=25652

NIGERIA: PHOTOJOURNALIST ASSAULTED BY SECURITY AGENTS
On 11 November 2004, a photojournalist with the Lagos-based daily
"Vanguard", Diran Oshe, was assaulted by security agents who also
smashed his camera as he attempted to take photographs of Major Hamza
Al-Mustapha, the former chief security officer to the late Nigerian
head of state, General Sani Abacha. The incident took place at the
premises of the High Court in Ikeja, Lagos, where Major Al-Mustapha
is standing trial along with four others for his alleged involved in
the attempted murder of Alex Ibru, publisher of the privately-owned
national daily "The Guardian".
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RWANDA: EDITOR OF INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TRIED ON CRIMINAL CHARGES
The editor of Umuseso, a Rwandan language independent weekly, was
tried today on criminal charges of defamation and "divisionism" in
connection with an article that accused parliamentary Vice President
Denis Polisi of plotting to seize power. The Committee to Protect
Journalists condemned the trial, saying journalists should not be
criminally prosecuted for reporting critically about government
officials.
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Human Rights & Development - D B Click - November 18 2004

 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 13:21:10 -0800

 Subject: Human Rights & Development - DB Click - November 18 2004

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DB Click: Human Rights

November 2004

For people seeking to address human rights and development issues and opportunities.

DB CLICK: Human Rights updates you on recent human rights and development initiatives including programme activities, awards, training, evaluation and research results, networks, books, other materials, planning ideas, change theories and other information recently placed on The Communication Initiative web site.

DB CLICK: Human Rights complements The Drum Beat through a specific focus on human rights and development.

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1.      World Congress on Family Law & Children's Rights - Mar 20-23 2005 - Cape Town, South Africa

Organised by Children's Rights International, this conference will aim to evaluate the progress and achievements relating to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCROC) on its 15th anniversary, and will explore the challenges ahead in securing rights to children in the 21st century. The Congress intends to reflect on whether the UNCROC addresses the right issues, in the light of 21st century concerns with nationalism, identity and globalisation, or whether new approaches to protecting children's rights are needed...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-2852.html

2.      Mainstreaming Disability in Development - May 16-27 2005 - Norwich, United Kingdom

Organised by the Overseas Development Group in the United Kingdom, this two-week course will aim to explore all aspects of mainstreaming disability - what it is, why it is important and how to do it. It will also focus on the concepts of disability and equality as well as explore policy development, practical tools and guidelines...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-2869.html

3.      Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism

Established by the European Commission in 1992, this prize is awarded annually to journalists from the print and online press for outstanding reporting on human rights and democracy in the developing world as vital elements of the economic and social development in these countries. In 2004, the European Commission intends to award a prize in each of the following five regions: Europe (EU Members States, states of central and eastern Europe, and Mediterranean states); Africa; the Arab world, Iran and Israel; Asia and the Pacific; and Latin America and the Caribbean. Deadline was Oct 31 2004...

http://www.comminit.com/awards2004/awards2004/awards-903.html

4.      Summer Course on Refugee Issues - Jun 11-19 2005 - Toronto, Canada

Administered by the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University, Toronto, this eight-day course aims to provide postgraduate training in refugee issues for practitioners inside and outside government who work on some aspect of refugee protection or assistance. The course includes panel discussions, case studies, a simulation exercise, and lectures from experts in the field, both local and international. Topics covered in the course include: root causes and consequences of forced displacement, ethics of forced migration, the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), cultural psychology of refugees, statelessness, internally displaced persons, public health responses, international trafficking, and refugees and human rights...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2005-events/events-2882.html

5.      The European Forum on Communication Rights - Oct 14-17 2004 - London, United Kingdom

Organised by The Media Culture and Communications Rights Network, The European Forum on Communication Rights (EFCR) sought to address the question of how to bring together those working at different levels on communication rights, including grassroots activists working on practical projects and street-level campaigns, those engaged in lobbying and advocacy, and researchers and academics...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2004-events/events-2887.html

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Development institutions rely on gender stereotypes rather than foster resistance to them.

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6.      Front Line Award

Front Line, a Dublin, Ireland-based organisation, has launched a new prize to honour the work of a "Human Rights Defender" who, through his or her non-violent work, has made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of human rights in the face of considerable personal risk. Deadline was Oct 31 2004...

http://www.comminit.com/awards2004/awards2004/awards-984.html

7.      Disability, Poverty & the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - Nov 2-4 2004 - Lilongwe, Malawi

This first roundtable in a series of three intended to look at the links between poverty and development, and mainstreaming disability in development. It was organised by the Federation of Disability Organisations of Malawi (FEDOMA) and Healthlink Worldwide (UK) as part of the Disability Knowledge and Research Programme. The aim of the Malawi roundtable was to make explicit the links between disability and poverty, and to highlight the role that disability plays in working towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2004-events/events-2888.html

8.      International Day of Peace 2004 - Sep 21 2004 - Global

The International Day of Peace, as decided by the United Nation's fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly, is observed on 21 September each year. The establishment of the United Nations in 1945, at the end of the most devastating war in human history, was an embodiment of this universal desire. Keeping peace and developing friendly relations among nations are among the main objectives of the United Nations. To commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace, the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 proclaimed the opening day of its regular session as the International Day of Peace...

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2004-events/events-2858.html

9.      Appreciative Inquiry: Positive Change in Human Services & Community Development - Oct 4 - Dec 5 2004 - Online Course

"Incorporating all of the voices in the community or organization, Appreciative Inquiry (AI) leverages the most positive possibilities in communities and organizations. Unlike the traditional problem-based tools and models which focus on what is not working well, AI focuses on what is working well (appreciative) by engaging people in asking questions and telling stories (inquiry)..."

http://www.comminit.com/events_calendar/2004-events/events-2879.html

10.     Livelihoods: Perspectives & Approaches - Feb 22-24 2005 - Norwich, United Kingdom

Organised by the Overseas Development Group in the United Kingdom, this three-day training course intends to explore what a livelihoods perspective brings to strategies for poverty reduction, food security and social protection. The course will also aim to take into consideration the broad policy context within which livelihoods are built and sustained. The course seeks to have participants "acquire analytical skills for looking at specific rural development issues such as land rights, technical change, privatized services and the delivery of specific assets such as credit. Participants will also be able to use their understanding to evaluate different ways of addressing these issues bearing in mind both individual and household livelihood building strategies..."

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JOBs(2) Project Managers "Media & Communication for Sustainable Development"

"Media & Communication for Sustainable Development"

Job Announcement

Job title: Project Managers Number of vacancies: 2
Location: Based in Kabul, with many trips all over Afghanistan
Duration: Minimum 6 months (starting in January 2005)

Sayara Media & Communication http://www.sayara-media.org/ is an Afghanistan based company. Sayara works in the field of Media development and Communication in Kabul and in the provinces. We are currently looking for 2 Project Managers.

The Project Managers will:
Manage and coordinate the implementation of media and communication related projects all over Afghanistan;
Be responsible of the financial administration of their projects;
Report to the clients / donors;
Build a strong relationship with the local partners and beneficiaries;

Candidates must demonstrate the following qualification and experience:
At least one practical experience in project management;
An experience in Media and/ or communication;
Strong leadership and communication skills;
A previous experience in Afghanistan or in a post-conflict environment is a strong plus;
Good command of English language;

Command of Dari and/ or Pashto language is a plus.
Applications for this job (resume and cover letter) should be sent to: Amaury Coste,
amaurycoste@sayara-media.org ;
closing date: December 15 2004.

Job Reference code: PM 1104

 

Amaury Coste
Email: : amaurycoste@sayara-media.org
Tel: 0093 (0) 702 76 671
Tel: 0093 (0) 792 30 933

Gabriel Dvoskin
Email: gabrieldvoskin@sayara-media.org
Email: gadvoskin@hotmail.com
Tel: 0093 (0) 702 91 740

Mirwais Masood
Email: mirwaismasood@sayara-media.org
Tel: 0093 (0) 702 78 068

Sebastien Turbot
Email: sebastienturbot@sayara-media.org

Tel: 0093 (0) 702 89 269

Sayara Web Master : Lima Ahmed Email: limaahmed@sayara-media.org
Email: lima_ahmed2003@yahoo.com
Tel: 0093 (0) 790 26 094

Address: First Street left of Butcher Street Shar-e-Naw, Kabul, Afghanistan

JOB: GLOBAL AIDS PROGRAM INFORMATION OFFICER - Washington, DC or White River Junction, VT

The Global Health Council

GLOBAL AIDS PROGRAM INFORMATION OFFICER - Washington, DC or White River Junction, VT, United States

The incumbent researches, collects, and distributes information to the Council and its members about timely issues and developments in the care and prevention of HIV/AIDS in international communities. S/he is responsible for the writing and editing of the organisation's bimonthly publication, AIDSLink.

http://www.comminit.com/vacancy2046.html

Contact please see individual post page for details

JOB: PUBLICATIONS ASSOCIATE - Washington, DC

International Foundation for Election Systems

PUBLICATIONS ASSOCIATE - Washington, DC, United States

The incumbent will provide administrative and programmatic support for the production, promotion and distribution of IFES publications. S/he will conduct research and provide logistical and administrative support to the magazine's editor and marketing specialists.

http://www.comminit.com/vacancy2062.html

Contact jobs@ifes.org

JOB: COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER - Washington, DC

Council on Foreign Relations

COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER - Washington, DC, United States

The incumbent will manage and organise transcriptions of DC on-the-record events, serve as communications point person in the task force rollout process, and support the VP of Communications on DC-based Special Projects, among other duties.

http://www.comminit.com/vacancy2082.html

Contact humanresources@cfr.org

JOB - Radio producer - Coquitlam (English & Korean language skills)

Radio producer - Coquitlam - British Columbia

   ( http://www.jobbank.gc.ca/ShowJob_en.asp?Source=JobPosting&OrderNum=1076244 )

Job Advertisement

Advertisement number: 1076244

Title: Radio producer ( NOC :  5131)

Terms of Employment: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: $4,700.00 Monthly for 40 hours per week

Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible

Location: Coquitlam, British Columbia (1 vacancy)

Skill Requirements:

Education: Completion of university

Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.): Not applicable

Experience: 6 - 9 years

Languages: Speak English, Read English, Write English

Specialized Production: Musical or variety concert

Type of Media: Radio

Specific Skills: Organize and co-ordinate production

Additional Skills: Supervise staff or team

Essential Skills: Reading text, Writing, Oral communication, Working with others, Problem solving, Decision making, Job task planning and organizing

Other Information: Candidate(s) must be able to speak English as well as Korean language skills are an asset. Occasional travel to Korea is required. Also able to bring Korean musician(s) or singer(s) from Korea.

Employer: SK MEDIA LTD.

How to Apply:

By Fax: (604) 941-5062

By E-mail: info@radioseoulvan.com

Business Profile: SK Media Ltd. is a radio station which broadcasts for Korean community in B.C. The contents are Canadian and Korean News, Korea Music, information of Korean community and etc.

Web Site: http://www.fusionwired.com/radio/index.php

Advertised until: 2004/11/29

JOB: COMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA SPECIALIST - Azerbaijan

Meridian Group International, Inc.

COMMUNICATIONS/MEDIA SPECIALIST - Azerbaijan

The post holder will manage all communication activities related to a USAID Family Planning and Reproductive Health project in Azerbaijan. S/he must have state-of-the-art knowledge and practices in the area of IEC, BCC, media, marketing, promotions, advertising and public relations.

http://www.comminit.com/vacancy2051.html

Contact D.Darbeau@meridian-group.com

JOB: GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) COORDINATOR - Guinea

American Refugee Committee International

GENDER BASED VIOLENCE (GBV) COORDINATOR - Guinea

The incumbent will develop, implement, and evaluate the impact of the community safety initiative program on the refugee population in the Kissidougou and N'Zerekore area camps. Must be fluent in English and French.

http://www.comminit.com/vacancy2080.html

Contact please see individual post page for details

World Radio Forum

"When you do TV, you think about how  you look
and when you do radio you think about what you want to say."

                      (African youth at UN Special Session on Children, 2002) 

World Radio Forum ... http://www.worldradioforum.org/  an international group of national, community, and internet radio  producers and broadcasters who make radio for, with, and by children and youth. WRF members work in broadcasting, education, entertainment, development, and  social change.

We focus on the best interests of  young people. And we believe:

The young must be enabled to actively participate in radio production

Radio broadcasters and producers are duty bearers for children's rights

Rights and responsibilities: Check out the Rules for Radiomakers (Kids & Adults)

http://www.worldradioforum.org/rules.shtml

> > JOIN US! <<

http://www.worldradioforum.org/mission.shtml#join