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29.12.2004 A small number of experts in Croatia believes that the actions of the environmentalists are needed. Moreover, they find them essential. The majority of scientists a priori dismisses their pressure and mass campaigns and the increasingly more frequent challenging of the media, holding the position that the environmentalist civic initiatives don’t understand the issues in a given field at all.

24.12.2004 Serija javnih tribina u organizaciji DIZALICE (Inicijativa za rekonstukciju kulture i društva) nastavljena je u ponedeljak, 20. decembra u prostoru galerije Kulturnog centra Novog Sada

24.12.2004 Nacrt Zakona o oglašavanju (reklamiranju), čije se usvajanje očekuje u Skupštini Srbije privukao je pažnju brojnih marketinških agencija i medija i izazvao oprečna mišljenja. Glavne zamerke su da je nacrt rigidan i veoma štetan za jačanje i osposobljavanje srpske privrede za otvorenu tržišnu utakmicu

23.12.2004 Zloćudnost i prljavština javnog govora u Srbiji vraća se na vreme pred zločinačke ratove na našem prostoru, koji su unesrećili pripadnike svih naroda, među kojima i srpski. Na žalost, na pisanje revolveraških listova, koji žive od najnižih strasti svojih čitalaca i zadovoljavaju slične potrebe svojih vlasnika, ne reaguju organi koji su po zakonu dužni da suzbijaju izazivanje rasne i nacionalne mržnje, navodi se u saopštenju Beogradskog centra za ljudska prava

23.12.2004 U medijima u Srbiji nije prisutno suočavanje sa prošlošću već rehabilitacija zločina, ocenila je Sonja Biserko, predsednica Helsinškog odbora za ljudska prava u Srbiji na predstavljanju rezultata analize štampanih medija i studije "Mediji u Srbiji kao deo antievropskog fronta - štampa: nepromenjena matrica"

23.12.2004 “Site nie sme lugje od krv i meso i ne moze da barame, nitu politicarite, nitu novinarite da bidat setacki proekti na zamislen covek. Nasa zadaca e da se trudime da bideme pokvalitetni kako novinari i da gi pocituvame etickite standardi vo nasata profesija.” veli Ivan Zvonimir Chicak, sloboden novinar i opozicioner po vokacija od Hrvatska, vo intervjuto dadeno za Utrinski vesnik.

23.12.2004 Nevladina organizacija Vojvodjanka –Regionalna ženska incijativa u saradnji sa partnerskim organizacijama iz Novog Sada i Beograda, i uz podršku Skupštine i Izvrsnog veca AP Vojvodine i Pokrajinskog ombudsmana za ljudska prava organizovala je prvi Festival o ljudskim pravima – VIVISECTfest, od 13. do 19. decembra 2004. godine u Novom Sadu

23.12.2004 The Serbian Helsinki Committee for Human Rights protests the increased use of personal disqualifications based on the nationality of an individual. The latest such example was published in an article in the "International" daily of December 20, under the title "Branka Prpa Absolves the NATO Murederers."

22.12.2004 Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava zahteva od medija da obustave negativnu kampanju kojom se stvara atmosfera straha i nesigurnosti na jugu Srbije (Preševo, Bujanovac i Medveđa) i pogoršavaju ionako loši međunacionalni odnosi u ovoj sredini. Inicijativa mladih za ljudska prava poziva Tužilaštvo i druge institucije da ispitaju navode medija o informacijama o novim nemirima i etničkom nasilju i da protiv svih onih koji šire lažne vesti pokrenu odgovarajuće postupke u skladu sa pozitivnim zakonskim propisima

22.12.2004 The Challenge: Using Flash (a poplular website movie-maker), show us a global problem that you care about and give us your global solution. Get ready to be impressed, entertained, and enlightened by responses to issues from climate change to AIDS and child soldier recruitment.

21.12.2004 The 4th NGO Fair, which took place on 3rd – 5th of December 2004, was the main purpose for the NGO Info-center’s another engagement on media monitoring. The objective of the Monitoring was the insight of the media coverage on the events that occurred at the NGO Fair, concerning the fact that there was present great number of civil organizations who were promoting their activities. Target group of this media monitoring were the public service, the national TV broadcasters and the daily newspapers in Macedonian language.

21.12.2004 The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is deeply concerned about restrictions on the free movement of journalists in the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

21.12.2004 The organization Kids with Cameras uses photography and documentary filmmaking as a way to empower children in conflict zones and situations of extreme poverty around the world. A new film tells the story of the group's birth.

20.12.2004 A major U.S. human rights organization has accused the Iranian judiciary of using coerced confessions and threats of lengthy prison sentences to cover up arbitrary detentions and torture of internet journalists and dissidents.

17.12.2004 The Millennium Campaign global website is inviting the planet's 6 billion people to use their voice to speak up and demand their governments to live up to their commitments.

17.12.2004 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched India's first free direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast service - DD Direct Plus - hailing it as a "landmark event" in the broadcasting and communication history of the country.

17.12.2004 Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched India's first free direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast service - DD Direct Plus - hailing it as a "landmark event" in the broadcasting and communication history of the country.

17.12.2004 With its population over a billion, India is considered one of the next global "hot spots" for the AIDS epidemic. Journalists in the city of Chennai have been learning how to reach young people with key messages about the disease.

16.12.2004 Recently, journalists reporting from the BiH Parliamentary Assembly (PA) gathered and established an association called the Press Gallery of the BiH PA. Although there are already a few journalists’ associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, these are still completely disorganized. This is why we decided to use the support of the OSCE Parliamentary Support Programme to establish the Parliamentary Press Gallery as a focal point around which political journalists from our country could gather.

16.12.2004 Nedavno su se novinari koji izvještavaju iz Parlamentarne skupštine BiH (PS BiH), organizirali i oformili udruženje pod nazivom Press galerija PSBiH. Iako u Bosni i Hercegovini postoji više novinarskih udruženja, vlada potpuna neorganiziranost. Zbog toga smo odlučili iskoristiti podršku koju nam je ponudio OSCE-ov Ured za podršku Parlamentu i formirali Press galeriju kao jezgro, oko kojeg će se okupljati politički novinari iz naše zemlje i okruženja.