[ecrea] Human Rights and Globalization ? Challenges for the Media

Conference Secretariat

DW-MEDIA SERVICES GmbH
Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 3
53113 Bonn, Germany

Phone: +49.228.429-2142
Fax: +49.228.429-2140
(gmf /at/ dw-world.de)

"Human Rights and Globalization ? Challlenges for 
the Media" Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum from 
June 20 to 22, 2011 in Bonn, Germany



The world has become a global marketplace for 
goods, ideas and news. Under inhumane conditions, 
women in Asia produce cheap shirts for department 
stores in the West. Billions of people are 
without clean water and sufficient food. More and 
more people in the Southern Hemisphere want to 
migrate to the USA or Western Europe. Chinese 
investors are securing jobs in the USA. IT 
workers in India are solving software problems 
for European companies. Fishers in Bangladesh 
call for market prices via mobile phone.



The world has become more complex ? even experts 
arre finding it hard to comprehend how everything 
interacts. This is where the media has an 
important role: to explain and create 
transparency and public awareness. "Human rights 
and globalization ? challenges to the media" is 
the theme of the next Deutsche Welle Global Media 
Forum in Bonn. For its fourth

occurrence from June 20 to 22, 2011, Deutsche 
Welle once again expects more than 1,300 
participants from around the globe. In more than 
40 panels and workshops renowned experts will 
discuss the many aspects of the 2011 theme.



Issues include:
How can the media better meet the increased 
demands to deliver information, analysis and evaluation of global interaction?
How can the media help to sustainably sharpen 
awareness of the universal validity of human rights?
How can the media promote respect for and 
assertion of these rights, especially in closed societies?
How can journalists protect themselves from 
becoming victims of human rights violations?



For more information go to www.dw-gmf.de



Conference trailer: http://www.dw-gmf.de/conference_2011/5616.php

The conference is co-hosted by the Foundation for 
International Dialogue of the Savings Bank in 
Bonn and supported by the German Foreign Office, 
the European Regional Development Fund, the State 
Government of North-Rhine Westphalia, the City of Bonn and Deutsche Post DHL.   

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