BIRTH OF PANOS GLOBAL SOUTH NETWORK
- By Panos Network
- NETWORK NEWS
Panos is pleased to announce the birth of the Global South Panos Network, a grouping of autonomous institutes working to ensure that information is effectively used to foster public debate, pluralism and democracy. Grounded in six regions of the global South, this Network seeks amplify the voices, aspirations and initiatives of citizens, communities and countries in global debates and policy processes.
With an enduring commitment to freedom of expression, it advocates the need for media development at global level to contribute to local empowerment. Its member institutes share a common vision of a world where communities build open, democratic and sustainable societies aimed at social justice, with free and diversified information and communication flows, including an independent and plural media.
PANOS WELCOMES NEWEST MEMBER
- By Panos Network
- NETWORK NEWS
PANOS INSTITUTE GREAT LAKES (IPGL/PIGL), founded in 2014, becomes the newest member of the Panos Network. Headquartered in Bujumbura, Panos Great Lakes serves the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda and Burundi region.
Its mission includes promoting media plurality and the access to an independent, diverse and responsible press in the Great Lakes area. Among its stategies, PIGL works actively at building a legal framework that protects the freedom of the press.
PIGL also works on themes such as public health/HIV, media pluralism, governance, as well as peace & conflicts.
PSA INTRODUCES FACT-CHECKING TOOL
- By Panos Network
- NETWORK NEWS
Panos South Asia launched their new fact-checking initiative, South Asia Check. It went "live" this last Monday, and was almost immediatey sollicited for real-time fact-checking when a violent clash between police and protesters broke out in Tikapur, Western Nepal.
A fact-check of a photo of a burning man was used by a Nepali blog, giving the impression that it is from Tikapur. Fact-checking helped identify the picture really being a 2012 photo from Florida.
Panos South Asia says that positive "feedbacks are pouring in", and hopes the initiative, currently limited to Nepal, will be extended to the whole South Asia region as soon as possible. Fact-checking will focus mostly on regional politics, government and media.
You can also follow South Asia Check on Twitter, @SouthAsiaCheck.
BURUNDI: INFORMATION LOCKDOWN (IN FRENCH)
- By PANOS EUROPE
- NETWORK NEWS
Après l’annonce de la candidature du président Pierre Nkurunziza à un troisième mandat le samedi 25 avril, de violents heurts ont éclaté dimanche et lundi à Bujumbura, capitale du Burundi, faisant au moins deux morts. Les médias burundais ont été particulièrement visés au cours de ces 48 heures : émissions suspendues, Maison de la Presse fermée, radios empêchées d’émettre et journalistes harcelés…
Le gouvernement verrouille l’information pour éviter la contestation. Les responsables des principaux médias et des organisations professionnelles des médias sont unanimes : les libertés d’informer et de s’exprimer sont gravement mises à mal au Burundi depuis le samedi 25 avril 2015, date du Congrès extraordinaire du parti au pouvoir, le CNDD-FDD.
Au nom des médias burundais et de la liberté d’expression, Reporters Sans Frontières, la Fédération Internationale des Journalistes, le Comité pour la Protection des Journalistes, l’Institut Panos Europe, l’Institut Panos Grands Lacs, le groupe éditorial VITA et Radio Netherlands Worlwide appellent la communauté internationale à réagir rapidement et avec sévérité à ces atteintes liberticides à l’information.
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MONDAY NEWS ROUNDUP: 30 MARCH 2015
- By PANOS NETWORK
- NETWORK NEWS
PANOS SOUTH ASIA HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS. NINE JOURNALISTS FROM NEPAL, INDIA, PAKISTAN, BANGLADESH AND SRI LANKA WERE BROUGHT TO KATHMANDU (NEPAL), BETWEEN 18 AND 20 MARCH, TO DISCUSS AND UNDERSTAND MIGRATION LABOUR AND ASSOCIATED ISSUES, AS A PART OF A FELLOWSHIP HELD IN COOPERATION WITH SWISS DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION (SDC). MORE HERE. PANOS SOUTH ASIA ALSO REDESIGNED AND UPDATED ITS WEBSITE, AND RECENTLY JOINED TWITTER.
ELSEWHERE, PANOS EASTERN AFRICA CELEBRATED WORLD FOREST DAY, 21 MARCH, WITH SEVERAL TREE PLANTING ACTIVITIES IN UGANDA. PANOS EASTERN AFRICA ALSO WORKS HARD PROVIDING ADVICE AND TIPS FOR GOOD AND ETHICAL JOURNALISM PRACTICES.
