Global Impact Workshops
2010
- Migration I Migration and development, Mexico 8-16Nov
- Human rights XII 9th UPR session, Geneva (1-6Nov)
- Food and Climate II Livelihood crisis of farmers, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), 12-23 July
- Human rights XI 8th UPR session, Geneva (3-14 May)
- Health V Global health: from crisis to sound governance, Geneva (19-22 Apr.)
- Food and Climate I How will Africa feed her children, Nairobi (5-16 Apr.)
- Human rights X 7th UPR session, Geneva (8-17 Feb.)
2009
- Health IV Cuba(16-17 Nov)
- Water II Baltic Sea (14-20 Sept)
- Climate IV Geneva (31 Aug - 12 Sept)
- Peacebuilding II (17-29 May)
- Human rights IV Geneva (4-8 May)
- Water Forum Istanbul (16-22 Mar.)
- Access to food Rome (18-19 Feb.)
- Human rights III Geneva(2-6 Feb.)
- Human rights Bern (29 Jan)
2008
- Human Rights II Geneva Dec 2008
- Health III Research for Health, Bamako 17-19 Nov
- Human Rights I Geneva Sept 2008
- Aid effectivness , Accra, Sept 2008
- Climate III Real Impacts and Solutions Geneva June 2008
- Health II Access to Health, Geneva May 2008
- Human Rights Encounter II , Geneva May 2008 Can Multinational companies improve human rights
- Peacebuilding I Beyond Wars, Building Peace, Geneva March 2008
2007
- Climate II Understanding Solutions Geneva Nov 2007
- Human Rights Encounter I , Geneva, Sept 2007 Health: a human right or a commodity?
- Climate I Tracking Climate Change, Geneva Jun 2007
Global Impact
- 900 journalist network members
- 26 workshops completed
- 14 field trips, 3 field trainings
- 426 programme participants from:
- 500 articles/broadcasts produced and published worldwide
- 500 participating global players: UN, NGO, business, diplomats, military, media, academia, researchers
- 130 operational multistakeholders
202 Print
47 News agency
46 Radio
46 TV
4 Film
72 Online&Networks
9 Photo
Testimonies
“This mixing with journalists from other parts of the world provides new ideas. We feel stimulated: the problems we have at home are similar to what happens elsewhere, we are not alone”
- Shubhra Choudarhy
Freelance journalist (Delhi)
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“I am in awe of what’s available here in Geneva in the manner of information resources. We come into contact with people we would never have access to back home."
- Abbas Al Lawati
Reporter, Gulf News (UAE)
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"Media21's workshops serve as an unparalleled information and contact resource. This experience really helps put the issues on the media map."
- William Dowell
Time Magazine bureau chief (former)
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“I have got much inspiration and the chance to meet real people talking about real issues. One has the chance to understand what these people from 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)
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Journalists Making A Difference Ruth Villarama, Executive Producer, Voyage Film Media (Manilla, Philippines), attended the Climate II workshop (Nov. 07) and produced a film distributed by national TV: The minister of the environment implemented measures to clean the rivers by involving locals in their rubbish management. The National Association of Universities signed an agreement to develop education on climate change. Philipines Phasing Out Incandescent Bulbs to Cut Greenhouse Emissions
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Two radio shows devoted to HUMAN RIGHTS have been launched in Africa, following a Media21 workshop held September 2007 in Geneva, by Judith Estelle Assogba, from Burkina Faso National Radio, and by Jean-Bosco Nzosaba, from CCI-FM+, a private Burundian radio station.
Mahtab Haider, Senior Assistant Editor, New Age , Dhaka, attended the Climate 1 workshop (June 07) and decided to organise a similar program in Bangladesh. At the request of CARE International (an NGO associated with Oxfam), Mahtab contacted Media21 and organised a workshop in Bengali for the province’s journalists on flood prevention. .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... |
Katarina Toll-Velazquez, head of the