[WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation to the World Forum on Communciation Rights,Geneva, 11.12.2003

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                  WORLD FORUM ON  COMMUNICATION RIGHTS

                              11.12.2003 x  9.30 am - 6 pm
                   Salle Mont-Blanc - PALEXPO Geneva, Switzerland
        
   Information and registration available: www.communicationrights.org

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PROGRAMME

9:30  Opening Session

10:00-11:15 am	Session 1 
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Communication and Poverty

Convenor: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)

Speakers: 
Palanguni Sainath (Journalist, India) (keynote), 
Denis Smith (Centro Evangélico de Estudios Pastorales en América
Central Guatemala/USA),
Cheri Honkala (Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign,  USA),
Kate Azuka Omenugha (Women, Media, Poverty, Nigeria)

11:30 am - 12.45 pm 	Session 2 
Communications, Copyright, and Trade: 
(Resisting) the Enclosure of the Global Knowledge Commons 

Convenor: Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Germany

Speakers: 
Robin Gross ( ip-justice, USA) (keynote), 
Denise Nicholson (Copyright Services Librarian, University of
Witswaterstrand, SA),  
Dinesh Lakhanpal (Director, Producer, Screenplay writer, India),  
Bildad Kagai (Free and Open Source Foundation for Africa, Kenya)
Christiane Asschenfeldt (International Creative Commons
Coordinator,Germany/USA)


2:00 -3:15 pm	Session 3:
Communication at War, Communication For Peace

Convenor: Association for Progressive Communication (APC)

Speakers: 
Elvira Claßen (Media Scientist, Research Group Information Society and
Security Policy, Germany), 
Danny Schechter (author of 'Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception,
mediachannel.org, USA), 
Luis Fernando Baron Porras (CINEP, Colombia), 
Olga Gutierrez (Planeta Paz, Colombia), 
Mercy Wambui (APC Women Networking Support Programme, Kenya), 
Denise Odhiambo (ICT Telecenters for Reconciliation, Education, and
Development
in Rwanda),  
Clemencia Rodriguez (Associate Professor, Department of Communication,
University of Oklahoma, USA). 

3:30 - 4:45 pm	Session 4: 
Communication and Human Rights: "No Development Without Democracy, No
Democracy Without Development"

Convenor: WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus

Speakers: 
Aminata Traoré (Writer, Former Minister of Culture in Mali, Founder of
the Forum For Another Mali, Keynote), 
Sharon Hom (Human Rights in China, USA), 
Souhayr Belhassen (Tunisian Human Rights League, Tunisia), Art McGee
(Media Alliance, USA),
 Amy West (Article 19, South Africa and UK), 
Stefano Rodota (Chairman of the European Data Protection Commissionners
Working Group, Italy, to be confirmed)

5:00 - 6:00 pm	Converging Agendas & Closing 


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