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The Media21 Global Journalism Network is a program of the Swiss-based media network, InfoSud.
It is designed to enhance public awareness of global issues
through better worldwide coverage, and more effective interaction
between the media and information resources such as donor
governments, United Nations agencies, NGOs, the private sector, academics, and other specialists.
Find out more
“I have got much inspiration and the chance to meet real people talking
about real issues. One has the chance to understand what ... the ICRC, UNHCR, etc are trying to do, not just in Afghanistan. I
would never have thought about these issues on the ground.” Sayed Mohammed Haroon, Editor, Aatash Newspaper (Kabul), Peacebuilding1.
Media 21 Impact...
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Workshops 2008:
PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS
25th May to 6th June: Access to Health, Geneva + fieldtrips.
22nd June to 4th July: Climate Change III, Geneva + fieldtrips
FUTURE WORKSHOPS
24th November to 7th December: Migration I, Andorra, Geneva + fieldtrips
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Why climate change is a human rights issue |
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By Naftali MUNGAI (Climate3 Participant)
July 16, 2008
Nairobi, Kenya (Africa Science News Service)
Climate change is unequivocal and only the die-hard skeptics still believe that it is a myth. This is the scientific consensus globally.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared last year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former American VP Al Gore, “the year 2100 will be warmer than today by between 1.8 and 4.0 degrees C."
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At climate change's 'Ground Zero' |
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By Lina Sagaral REYES (Climate3 Participant)
July 22, 2008
Mindanao Gold Star Dail, Philippines
COUTONOU, BENIN – Women are most vulnerable but also a resource for survival
Here at the fringes of climate change's "Ground Zero", no mourning bell tolls for the women who are most vulnerable to climate change's impacts. Justly so, since they can be a most valuable resource for survival even in a more inhospitable, warming globe, asserts a university-based researcher here.
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At the fringes of climate change's 'Ground Zero' |
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By Lina Sagaral REYES (Climate3 Participant)
July 22, 2008
Philippine Daily Inquirer, Mindanao Bureau
COTONOU, BENIN – 'Zemijahns': Beninese commuter motorcyclists hit the global rocky highway
As jeepneys are to Manila so are 'zemijahns' or 'moto-taxis' to Cotonou.
Zemijahns are two-wheeled Asian-made (mostly Chinese but some are Korean, Japanese and Indian) motorcycles which serve as the common people's conveyances in this tiny West African country, slightly bigger than Luzon island.
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Foreign debt starving and destabilising Haiti |
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By Rupa CHINAI (Health1 Participant)
July15, 2008
India
With blue-green waters lapping its white pebbled shores, the beautiful island nation of Haiti is described as the ‘pearl of the Caribbean’. It has a moving history of courage and independence, having in 1804 become the first Black nation, inhabited by slaves, to achieve independence from French colonial rule without foreign help.
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Haiti's health care system in critical condition |
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By Rupa CHINAI (Health1 Participant)
July 15, 2008
India
If conditions of health are anything to go by in judging the progress of a people, Haiti sits at the bottom of the barrel. It represents one of the most tragic case studies within the developing world of how nations lose the right to determine their sovereignty and ensure access to health when they lose their right to local food self-sufficiency.
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Developing world health system in crisis |
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By Ochieng OGODO (Health1 Participant)
July 7, 2008
Kenya (The Standard)
Global warming will increase the health burden in Africa due to an increased pathogen load resulting from heavy rainfall in areas without good water supply and sanitation.
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South Asia's health worker shortage to figure at G8 meet |
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By Patralekha CHATTERJEE (Health1 Participant)
July 6, 2008
Geneva, Switzerland (Indo Asian News Service, IANS)
South Asia - including India - needs an additional 2.8 million health workers. The shortage there and in Africa is now so acute that it will figure on the agenda of the G8 summit of the world's wealthiest nations in Japan July 7-9.
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By Imelda V. ABAÑO (Health1 Participant)
June 24, 2008
Philippines (Business Mirror)
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