HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

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13 February is World Radio Day — a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information and freedom of expression over the airwaves, UNESCO underlines.

UNESCO

As radio continues to evolve in the digital age, it remains the medium that reaches the widest audience worldwide, adds the UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

“This multi-purpose medium can help people, including youth, to engage in discussions on topics that affect them. It can save lives during natural or human-made disasters; and it provides journalists with a platform to report facts and tell their stories.”

Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)**, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 130 countries.

The main global impact of AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the establishment of a worldwide community radio sector that has democratized the media sector.

AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity, networking and cooperation.

Posted on 13/02/2013 at 08:59 in Africa, Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East, Others-USA-Europe-etc., The Peoples   |  RSS feed |   Reply   |   Trackback URL