MONDAY NEWS ROUNDUP: 16 MARCH 2015
- By Panos Network
- NETWORK NEWS
Panos Southern Africa (PSAf) lost one of its former board member, Mr. Edward Chitsulo, a Malawian journalist that served on PSAf's board between 2004 and 2012.
"Southern Africa has lost a gallant advocate for media development and freedom of expression, a man with a great passion to giving a voice to the voiceless. Many journalists and communicators in the region have lost a great colleague and mentor. PSAf has lost a great member of the family, who remained supportive of our work even after he retired from the board", declared Lilian Kiefer, PSAf's Executive Director. Read PSAF's full statement here.
Panos Caribbean is engaging the public to take action with an original hashtag, urging jamaicans to consider biodiversity and climate change during this year's lent period. Weekly, using #CarbonFastJamaica in social medias, Panos Caribbean invites us all to include current environmental issues into ou toughts during this season toward redemption.
Panos Eastern Africa will be participating to several events for this year's World Forestry Day, 21 March. They will, among other public activities, be planting 6 hectares of trees in Kabanyolo and in Rukungiri district, Uganda.
The other Panos Institutes also have been hard at work advancing their causes. Visit Panos Europe, Panos West Africa and Panos South Asia. This last institute just joined Twitter, and you are welcomed to join them and egage them at @PanosSouthAsia.
MONDAY NEWS ROUNDUP: 23 FEBRUARY 2015
- By PANOS NETWORK
- NETWORK NEWS
Today's news roundup is an overview of the themes recently covered by the Panos Institutes around the world.
Panos Southern Africa (PSAf), on top of covering the recent elections in Zambia (20th January) and celebrating World Radio Day (13 Frebruary), called for greater involvment from the media and investigative journalism on the issues of the prevalence of unsafe abortions in Zambia and of Child Marriage in Southern Africa.
On the subject of child marriage, Mamoletsane Khati, PSAf's Regional Programme Manager for Health and Development, says that "With funding from Plan International, PSAf is supporting journalists and media houses from Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe to develop in-depth content that would generate debate and inspire action to end child marriages."
On unsafe abortions, Lilian Kieffer, PSAf Executive Director, said that “unsafe abortions always take away the dignity of a person (and) are taking a lot of lives of women especially adolescent girls in our communities, and we can all play our part in saving lives by opening dialogue to find solutions. (...) That is why as an organisation, we promote training of editors and their journalists to responsibly report health issues by providing factual but ethical information as a way of according the public with receptive information that could be beneficial to them.”
PSA MEDIA FELLOWSHIP ON MIGRANT LABOUR
- By PANOS SOUTH ASIA
- NETWORK NEWS
APPLICATION PERIOD EXTENDED UNTIL 26 FEBRUARY 2015! Panos South Asia invites application for the media fellowships on South Asian Initiative for Migrant Labour for the year 2015. The fellowships are being offered by Panos South Asia as a part of a Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC) project for encouraging dialogue and discussion on migrant labour issue among all concerned, including labourer, trade unions, and governments of labour-sending and labour-receiving countries.
Applications are invited from print, television, radio and web journalists writing/reporting on migrant labour issues from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The fellowship will support writing/reporting stories on migrant labour from the region and labour-receiving countries.
PANOS EUROPE: TOOLS FOR MIGRATION ISSUES
- By PANOS EUROPE
- NETWORK NEWS
PANOS EUROPE RELEASED TWO NEW TOOLS TODAY, TO HELP CIVIL SOCIETY OGANISATIONS DEALING WITH MIGRATION ISSUES TO ADVOCATE AND COMMUNICATE BETTER. BOTH BOOKLETS ARE IN FRENCH.
The first booklet, entitled "La communication associative", focuses especially on civil society organisations working on migration issues. It tries to answer questions such as why communication matters, what are the expectations of journalists that cover those issues, and how best to address the issues, online or offline.
The second booklet, "Le plaidoyer associatif", deals with improving the capacity to advocate the cause of migration issues, suggesting relevant activities and resources.
You can find more information on these "Cahiers Panos" (Panos Booklets) on Panos Europe's own Website.
WORLD AIDS DAY 2014: TIME TO REFLECT ON KEY POPULATIONS
- By Lilian Kiefer, PSAf
- NETWORK NEWS
During the commemoration of World AIDS Day on 1st December 2014, Panos Institute Southern Africa is calling for critical reflection on the HIV/AIDS epidemic among key populations such as sex workers, sexual minorities, adolescents, mobile populations, among others.
Critical reflection needed on sexual minorities and other key populations Critical reflection needed on sexual minorities and other key populations While a lot of progress has been made in lowering the levels of new infections in general population, the incidence rates remain high among key populations. Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) has been running a number of projects that address concerns of Key Populations.
