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Communication Rights in the Information Society - CRIS
CRIS is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the upcoming World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties is a non-profit civil liberties organisation based in the UK. Its main purpose is to promote free speech and privacy on the Internet and raise public awareness of these important issues.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy.
Human Rights Report
Independent IT specialists and professional journalists aiming at conceiving and promoting independent journalistic projects on the Internet.
ICT for Peace
An initiative to promote the use -and explore the potential- of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in humanitarian and peace operations. The ICT4Peace website is a community platform, giving you the opportunity to connect with groups and people interested in ICTs in humanitarian and peace operations.
International Federation of Journalists - IFJ
The IFJ promotes international action to defend press freedom and social justice through strong, free and independent trade unions of journalists.
International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX)
IFEX was born in 1992 when many of the world's leading freedom of expression organizations came together in Montreal to discuss how best to further their collective goals. IFEX keeps a Clearing House managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. The IFEX Action Alert Service provides daily updates of free expression violations world wide.
Internet Free Expression Alliance
The Internet Free Expression Alliance works to ensure the continuation of the Internet as a forum for open, diverse and unimpeded expression and to maintain the vital role the Internet plays in providing an efficient and democratic means of distributing information around the world.
Media Democracy Day
They work with proposals and calls to action for media democracy.
Nexus Research
Nexus Research is a not-for-profit research co-operative based in Dublin. Founded in 1990 by a group of social scientists and consultants, Nexus has developed extensive expertise in supporting local and community development through new information and communication technologies.
Real world radio
Real World Radio (RWR) is a multilingual radio on the web, functioning in the auspices of the communication area of the environmentalist group Friends of the Earth International (FoEI).
Reclaim the Media
Independent journalists, media activists and community organizers, promoting press freedom and community media access as prerequisites for a functioning democracy.
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
AMARC serves the community radio movement, with almost 3.000 members and associates in 106 countries. Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio.
World Press Freedom Committee
The World Press Freedom Committee is an international umbrella organization that includes 45 journalistic groups united in the defense and promotion of press freedom in all media.
 
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In 2005, a group of scholars and activists, mostly from the global South, created the Copy/South Research Group to analyse, criticise, and confront the oppressive nature of current global copyright regimes, such as those defended by the World Intellectual Property Organisation, and similar ones around the globe.
A network of over 150 civil society organizations in Nigeria comprising of civil rights, grassroots, and community-based Non-Governmental Organizations campaigning for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill and eventual implementation when it becomes law in Nigeria.
Founded in Dakar (Senegal) in 2000 as a follow-up to a regional conference in preparation for the World Summit on Information Society ( WSIS) FAMEDEV aims to promote the development of the African Continent through information, communication and new technologies conscientising people especially women, on main development issues.
It promotes, supports, encourages and undertakes social science, statistical and scientific research pertaining to the print, electronic, film and other media with a view to enhancing and strengthening their freedom and independence. India.
Created by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, the Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. In addition to the site's own news, it is a portal with links to dozens of other independent sources around the world.

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Selected news
World Peace and Security /Media - Thu Aug 14 2008
Media criticise Gaza death ruling
Reuters news agency says the Israeli army has made reporting in Gaza "almost impossible" after it cleared a tank crew that killed one of its cameramen.
Source: BBC News

Human Rights /Gender /Media - Wed Aug 13 2008
Ransacking of longtime women's news agency
The devastation and disorder of a burglary and violent vandalism at the women’s news agency CIMAC (Women’s Communication & Information) offices in Mexico City last weekend suggest that it was more than a common break-in.
Source: AWID

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