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[Myriam Horngren]

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CRIS IN TUNISIA: FULL REPORT!
"I am of the generation that on hearing that someone has been on a 'mission', immediately thinks either of 'Mission Impossible' or of the many Irish missionaries that plied the world with Christian ideology, mostly well-intentioned, in the name of helping poor people. I am just back from a human rights mission to Tunisia. This is my report." (Sean O'Siochru, CRIS Campaign)
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/226


NEWSROOM/WSIS SPECIAL PREPCOMS

Reinforcing Journalism in the Information Society
September 14th, 2005 Grahamstown, South Africa
Highway Africa is an annual conference hosted in South Africa, bringing together journalists and new media practitioners from across the African continent. The conference aims to put African media into the centre of debates about ICTs and the Global Information Society. The 2005 conference, in Grahamstown 12-14 September 2005 focused on reinforcing journalism in the Information Society and was attended by three hundred African journalists.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/943

WSIS Prepcom 3: Updates on official and civil society events
The World Summit 2003 website has now posted all updated information regarding activities around and during Prepcom 3 which will be held in Geneva from 19th September until 30th September. This will be the last official multi-stakeholder meeting before the Summit in November.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/942

NEWSROOM/WSIS TUNISIA AND COMMUNICATION RIGHTS

JOINT ACTION: NGOs protest deterioration of rights in Tunisia two months ahead of WSIS
IFEX, TUNIS, Sept 9, 2005 - International and Tunisian non-governmental organisations express their outrage at the rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Tunisia just two months prior to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), to be held in Tunis, November 15-18, 2005. After prohibiting the founding congress of the Tunisian Journalists' Union (SJT) on September 7, authorities prevented the Tunisian League for Human Rights (LTDH) from holding its 6th Congress, scheduled to begin today.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/941

CAMPAIGN RESOURCES

Towards a Sustainable Information Society Deconstructing WSIS
Edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus-ex-machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/945

GET INVOLVED/TAKE ACTION

Nominations wanted for best Freedom of Expression Blog
Bloggers and other Internet users are invited to submit nominations for the Special Reporters Without Borders Award honouring the blog that best promotes freedom of expression and information.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/934

UNESCO Seeks Nominations for World Press Freedom Prize
UNESCO invites organisations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to submit nominations for the 2006 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/935

SIGN UP TO THE CRIS CHARTER/FIRMAR LA CARTA/SIGNER LA CHARTE

CRIS CHARTER
La Carta de CRIS
Nuestra visión de la Sociedad de la Información se fundamenta en el Derecho a Comunicar como un medio de acrecentar los derechos humanos y fortalecer la vida social, económica y cultural de las personas y las comunidades. Para lograrlo, resulta fundamental que las organizaciones de la sociedad civil se unan para cooperar en la construcción de una sociedad de la información basada en principios de transparencia, diversidad, participación, justicia social y económica, e inspiradas por la equidad de género y la perspectivas culturales y regionales.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/97/ 

La Charte de CRIS
Notre vision de la «société de l'information» est basée sur le droit de communiquer qui est considéré comme un moyen pour étendre les droits de l'homme et améliorer la vie sociale, économique et culturelle des personnes et des communautés. Pour cela, il est essentiel que les organisations de la société civile se réunissent afin d'aider à la construction d'une société de l'information basée sur les principes de transparence, de diversité, de participation et de justice économique et sociale et inspirée par une approche équitable du rapport des sexes, de la culture et des aspects régionaux.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/95

The CRIS Charter
Our vision of the 'Information Society' is grounded in the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human rights and to strengthen the social, economic and cultural lives of people and communities. Crucial to this is that civil society organisations come together to help build an information society based on principles of transparency, diversity, participation and social and economic justice, and inspired by equitable gender, cultural and regional perspectives.
http://www.crisinfo.org/content/view/full/98


Myriam Horngren
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