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Volume 10, number 1, February 2006
The Road to AMARC 9 World Conference in Amman, Jordan
AMARC 9, the 9th world Conference of AMARC, will take place in Amman, Jordan from the 11 to the 17 of November 2006. The Internet Jordanian pioneer and FM broadcaster Ammannet will host the conference in partnership with media and journalists groups from Jordan and Palestine.
Worldwide Broadcast of the Summit for the Community Radio Movement
AMARC covered the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) from the 16 to 18 November. Community Radio journalists from SIMBANI (AMARC news Agency in Africa), from PULSAR (Information Agency from AMARC LAC) from AmisNet (Europe), and community radio correspondents from Asia and North America, webstreamed and produced a precious radio archive...
Struggling for Communication Rights in the Information Society
As a member of the Civil Society Organisations of the WSIS, AMARC effectivelly contributed to ensure the participation of Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi as civil society speaker to the plenary of the WSIS insisting on communication rights as the basis of the information society.
Contradictions in the Summit: Tunisia’s Record on Freedom of Expression!
AMARC Coverage started with dramatic coverage of the Hunger strike of Tunisian journalists, some of which had already been political prisoners. From the inset, police in civilian clothes closely followed AMARC journalists, interested in covering freedom of expression issues in Tunisia. AMARC delegates were forbidden to attend the Citizen Summit...
News from the AMARC International Board
The International Board of Directors of AMARC (IBOD) held its annual face-to-face meeting in Hammamet, Tunisia from 20 to 22 November 2005. The IBOD members dedicated full attention to the strategic planning for the community radio movement.
The First AMARC Asia Pacific Regional Conference
More than a 150, Community broadcasters and media activists from 19 Asia-Pacific countries gathered in Jakarta 24-27 November 2005 at the first Asia Pacific Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters, to create the Regional Section of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) and elected a Regional Board of AMARC Asia-Pacific...
The Third Peoples’ Summit of the Americas
AMARC Latin America and Caribbean and a Quebec delegation of community radio broadcasters covered the Third People’s Summit and the Government Summit of the Americas, from November 1 to 5, in Mar del Plata, Argentina. The participants said no, to the Free Trade Zone of the Americas proposed by Washington...
AMARC at the Sixth WTO Conference
AMARC ensured media coverage of the Sixth World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, China, 13–18 December 2005. The delegation was composed of journalists from community radio stations members of AMARC from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines and the United States...
The 6th Polycentric Social Forum in Bamako and Caracas
AMARC covered the activities of the 6th edition of the World Social Forum, in the Polycentric Forum of Bamako, Mali, from 19 to 23 January and from Caracas, Venezuela from 24 to 28 January. AMARC will also cover the polycentric forum in Karachi, Pakistan in April 2006...
L’AMARC Calls for Solidarity with community Radio in Nepal
In response to the deteriorating press freedom and freedom of expression situation in Nepal, twelve international organisations, including AMARC, UN agencies, global media associations, freedom of expression advocates and media development organisations, undertook a mission...
