10-07-2007 (Jerusalem) UNESCO encourages dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian journalists
Al-Muftah, a Hebrew-Arabic Glossary for journalists, has been published under a UNESCO project.
09-07-2007 (Paris) Director-General renews request for release of U Win Tin, imprisoned for the last 18 years
Koïchiro Matsuura has renewed his request for the release of U Win Tin.
09-07-2007 (Paris) Director–General condemns murders of three Iraqi journalists
“I condemn the murders of Sarmad Hamdi Al-Hassani, Mohammed Hilal Karji and Louaï Souleimane,” declared Mr Matsuura.
09-07-2007 (Harare) Community radio in Malawi: an IPDC success story
Three years after its establishment, the community radio in Nkhota-kota, Malawi’s central region, has become the one that everybody listens to in Ntchisi, Dowa, Salima, Kasungu and Nkhata Bay.
06-07-2007 (Kingston) School community radio goes on air
The Bequia High School Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) went on air on 3 July in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
05-07-2007 (Paris) Is every web surfer a likely suspect?
UNESCO, Interpol and ICOM team up to fight illicit traffic of cultural objects on internet.
05-07-2007 (Almaty) Bridging the information gap in Kyrgyzstan
Radiomost, the first community radio in Central Asia, will go on air next August.
04-07-2007 (Paris) UNESCO Director-General expresses relief over liberation of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston
“I am relieved and delighted that Alan Johnston has finally been freed, safe and sound.”
04-07-2007 (Paris) Signature of a Funds-in-Trust agreement on ICT capacity building in Libya
UNESCO’s Communication and Information Sector will implement a US$72 million project to use ICT to reform Libya’s higher education and scientific research systems.
04-07-2007 (Almaty) Developing national strategies on FOSS in Central Asia
A conference to promote free and open source software (FOSS) will be held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, from 6 to 7 July 2007.
03-07-2007 (Addis Ababa) Amharic-speaking giraffe puppet introduced at 5th World Summit
An Ethiopian children's TV show, sponsored by UNESCO, was presented at the 5th World Summit on Media for Children.
03-07-2007 (Paris) Director-General condemns murder of Iraqi journalist Hamed Abd Farhan
Hamed Abd Farhan was shot to death on 26 June in south Baghdad.
02-07-2007 (Rabat) First AMARC Africa - MENA conference on community radio
About one hundred broadcasters from the two regions are expected to attend the Conference in Casablanca, Morocco, from 22 to 24 October 2007.
02-07-2007 (Paris) Rwandan students trained as professional journalists
Forty-nine students at the National University of Rwanda have completed training in radio production.
29-06-2007 (Kingston) CARIMAC and UNESCO to offer online media courses
CARIMAC will for the first time offer three of its courses online through a partnership with UNESCO and the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC).
29-06-2007 (Paris) Promoting journalism training excellence in Africa
UNESCO publishes a report on Criteria and Indicators for Quality Journalism Training Institutions and Potential Centres of Excellence in Africa.
28-06-2007 (Libreville) Building capacity of Equatorial Guinea media workers
UNESCO provided training to professionals from the Equatorial Guinea News Agency to enhance their professional skills.
28-06-2007 (Almaty) ICT training helps teachers to source information on HIV/AIDS
Twenty-five education managers, teacher trainers and teachers attended a wokshop in Almaty last week.
27-06-2007 (Apia) Kiribati workshop agrees on information sharing
Representatives of Government, Parliament, civil service and media agreed to improve the sharing of public information.
26-06-2007 (Copenhagen) UNESCO mourns loss of Torben Krogh, Chairman of IPDC
Torben Krogh has suddenly passed away, only 63 years old.
26-06-2007 (Addis Ababa) UNESCO launches Ethiopian Digital Stories project
Over a hundred young Ethiopian women will be be spending the next three months working with UNESCO under a pilot project launched today.
26-06-2007 (Paris) Model Journalism Curricula for Developing Countries and Emerging Democracies launched
Journalism schools in developing countries can now use a model curriculum as a benchmark.
25-06-2007 (Paris) Building knowledge societies
UNESCO meeting examines knowledge acquisition and sharing.
22-06-2007 (Kingston) A Prison Community Radio to Aid Rehabilitation
A prison radio is developed to enhance prisoner rehabilitation and education in the Carribbean.
21-06-2007 (Paris) Director-General condemns execution of al-Sabah managing editor Filaih Wadi Mijthab
Filaih Wadi Mijthab was found dead on 15 June near a Sadr City mosque.
21-06-2007 (Geneva) New online tool charts cybersecurity standards developments
ITU has developed a common interface to keep track of crucial ICT security standards work.
20-06-2007 (Paris) New inscriptions for Memory of the World Register
Thirty-eight new items are inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
20-06-2007 (New Delhi) Facilitating TV content creation in India
Women newspaper clubs contribute to the programming of a community television in rural India.
19-06-2007 (Paris) Director-General condemns murder of Iraqi journalist Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari
Sahar Hussein Ali al-Haydari was killed by unidentified gunmen in Mosul on 7 June.
19-06-2007 (Paris) UNESCO Director-General condemns murder of Congolese journalist Serge Maheshe
Serge Maheshe was killed in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 13 June.
