[ecrea] Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum 2011

> 2011 Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
> from June 20 - 22 in Bonn/Germany
>
> Globalization offers great opportunities to generate more universal
> observance of human rights, but it also poses serious dangers to the
> fundamental rights of the individual. This is where the media has an
> important part to play: to fulfill its watchdog role and create
> transparency and public awareness in human rights worldwide.
>
> Some of the topics and partners include:
>
>
> * True security and human rights in a globalizing world (Global
> Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict)
>
> * Food vs. fuel - The role of the media in securing the right to food
> (Development and Peace Foundation)
>
> * Human rights in a post-Western world (European Council on Foreign
> Relations)
>
> * Human rights and good governance (German Development Institute)
>
> * Pride and prejudice in reporting on rights violations - Will South and
> North ever meet? (GLOBAL COOPERATION COUNCIL (Nord-Süd-Forum) e.V.)
>
> * How to do human rights reporting without infringing the rights of those
> reported on (DART Europe)
>
> * Labor migration and hidden issues - A role for the international media
> (Asian Media Information and Communication Centre)
>
> * Freedom of religion and belief in the age of fundamentalism (Deutsche
> Welle)
>
>
>
>
> To download the documentation from the 2010 conference "The Heat is on -
> Climate Change and the Media" please click here
> http://www.dw-gmf.de/download/GMF_Documentation_2010.pdf

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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