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A series of seminars on promoting press freedom and the Indonesian Press Law of 1999 specifically targeted to law enforcement authorities (i.e. judges, prosecutors, lawyers, police, organized by the UNESCO Office in Jakarta in collaboration with Indonesia?s Press Council.
The seminars that were held in 11 major cities across Indonesia since late 2002 gathered nearly 600 participants gaining awareness and understanding on the importance of press freedom and on the implications of Indonesia?s Press Law.
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The "UNESCO Position Statement on Internet Governance" was prepared in February 2004 as a contribution to the international discussions on Internet Governance. The Statement stresses that Internet governance mechanisms should be based on the principle of ?openness?, encompassing interoperability, freedom of expression and measures to resist any attempt to censor content.
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The IFLA/UNESCO Internet Manifesto Guidelines will be based on the
principles stated in the IFLA Internet Manifesto . The intention of
these guidelines is to support libraries worldwide in formulating clear
Internet policy defining objectives, priorities and services in relation
to national and local community needs.
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UNESCO promotes freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right, through sensitization and monitoring activities and fosters media independence and pluralism as prerequisites and major factors of democratization by providing advisory services on media legislation and sensitizing governments, parliamentarians and other decision-makers.
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In September 2004 UNESCO will publish the first report on "Politics of the Information Society: The Bordering and Restraining of Global Data Flows". The report is particularly aiming at informing media professionals about the developments in these complex fields.
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In preparation for the second WSIS Summit, Tunis 16-18 November 2005, UNESCO is organising a thematic meeting on freedom of expression in Cyberspace at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, from 3 to 4 February 2005, prior to PrepCom-2 in Geneva. The purpose of the conference is to discuss the challenges and opportunities this fundamental right encounters in the global network.
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The three-day UNESCO-supported conference was organized by the Moroccan Ministry of Information on the initiative of the International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication (ORBICOM) and the Swiss Federal Office of Communication as a follow-up meeting to the 1st phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). More than 270 representatives of international and regional media professional and non-governmental organizations as well as media experts from the academic world and the media industry participated in this event.
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ECNETNEWS, a project of UNESCO?s International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC), is a website linking Eastern Caribbean island newspapers into an on-line, up-to-the-minute forum for accurate exchange of news and debates on issues of primary concern to development and the region. ECNETNEWS is intended to complement the existing weekly publication of newspapers in the Eastern Caribbean and reduce the gap in public information and awareness on Caribbean integration and development issues for regional users, the Caribbean Diaspora and the world at large.
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