1. Communication Rights Luciano Sathler www.waccglobal.org www.wacc-al.net

2. Rwanda 1994, hate media, 800,000 deaths http://www.idrc.ca/rwandagenocidehttp://www.idrc.ca/rwandagenocide/

3. Serbia 1996, hate media, ethnic cleansing http://www.yihr.org/publications.php

4. Colombia 2008, 3 millions displaced people http://www.mediosparalapaz.org/www.mediosparalapaz.org

5. Communication is a moral action Communication is an action of personal interaction Communication is a political action Communication is an action which is socially constructed

6. Communication Rights go beyond The Right to Freedom of Expression and Opinion Article 19 Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

7. Communication Rights include areas such as democratic governance of the media, personal participation in one’s own culture, linguistic rights, access to the fruits of human creativity, privacy, right to peaceful assembly, autonomous determination. These are issues related to inclusion, quality of life and accessibility, issues related to human dignity.

8. New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO - 1980) MacBride Roundtables (1989 – 1999) Communication Rights In the Information Society Campaign (CRIS - 2001) UNESCO FROM INTERGOVERNMENTAL TO MULTISTAKEHOLDER World Summit on the Informatino society 2003 World Summit on the Informatino society 2005 BRIEF HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION RIGHTS www.centreforcommunicationrights.org

9. EVENTS THAT ADVANCE THE COMMUNICATION RIGHTS DISCUSSION Development of independent community media Internet: possibility of not-for profit initiatives, disperse control of the production of and access to information, social networks of interaction, instantaneous individual communication, VOIP, etc. Multibroadcast

10. The Right to Communicate points to legal recognition as a road for its implementation as a basic human right Communication Rights Recognises that there already exist a series of rights recognised internationally which are ignored and need to be put into action

11. To give and receive ideas To generate ideas & opinions To express oneself and speak To be listened to (to listen) To be understood (to understand) To learn, improve and create To respond & to participate THE SOCIAL CYCLE OF COMMUNICATION Freedom of Expression & Opinion Communication Rights

12. COMMUNICATION RIGHTS SPEAK TO THE FAIR & PLURALISTIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE POWER TO COMMUNICATE

13. Public Sphere Economic Activity Creation of knowledge Dissemination Distribution Access Usage Competency Social Learnings Use & Interation Cultural Identity Diversity SOCIAL PROCESS OF COMMUNICATION

14. Communiction for Development 1.To develop more and better access to information, especially those who are affected by information. 2.Support for freedom of the press, community media, sustainability of independent media, policies for the media, social control of the media, pro-poor and pro-development content 3.To generate public debate, guarantee the participation of voices of the marginalised and vulnerable 4.Community participation in Communication for Social Change Global Civil Society 2007 / 2008 Communicative Power and Democracy http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/yearbook07-8.htm

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