Fwd: [WSIS CS-Plenary] Invitation to the World Forum on Communciation Rights,Geneva, 11.12.2003

[Meryem Marzouki <marzouki@ras.eu.org>]

the caucus is a co-organizer of this forum. Meryem

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>                   WORLD FORUM ON  COMMUNICATION RIGHTS
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>                               11.12.2003 x  9.30 am - 6 pm
>                    Salle Mont-Blanc - PALEXPO Geneva, Switzerland
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>    Information and registration available: www.communicationrights.org
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> PROGRAMME
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> 9:30  Opening Session
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> 10:00-11:15 am	Session 1
> Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Communication and Poverty
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> Convenor: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
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> Speakers:
> Palanguni Sainath (Journalist, India) (keynote),
> Denis Smith (Centro Evangélico de Estudios Pastorales en América
> Central Guatemala/USA),
> Cheri Honkala (Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign,  USA),
> Kate Azuka Omenugha (Women, Media, Poverty, Nigeria)
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> 11:30 am - 12.45 pm 	Session 2
> Communications, Copyright, and Trade:
> (Resisting) the Enclosure of the Global Knowledge Commons
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> Convenor: Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Germany
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> Speakers:
> Robin Gross ( ip-justice, USA) (keynote),
> Denise Nicholson (Copyright Services Librarian, University of
> Witswaterstrand, SA),
> Dinesh Lakhanpal (Director, Producer, Screenplay writer, India),
> Bildad Kagai (Free and Open Source Foundation for Africa, Kenya)
> Christiane Asschenfeldt (International Creative Commons
> Coordinator,Germany/USA)
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> 2:00 -3:15 pm	Session 3:
> Communication at War, Communication For Peace
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> Convenor: Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
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> Speakers:
> Elvira Claßen (Media Scientist, Research Group Information Society and
> Security Policy, Germany),
> Danny Schechter (author of 'Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception,
> mediachannel.org, USA),
> Luis Fernando Baron Porras (CINEP, Colombia),
> Olga Gutierrez (Planeta Paz, Colombia),
> Mercy Wambui (APC Women Networking Support Programme, Kenya),
> Denise Odhiambo (ICT Telecenters for Reconciliation, Education, and
> Development
> in Rwanda),
> Clemencia Rodriguez (Associate Professor, Department of Communication,
> University of Oklahoma, USA).
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> 3:30 - 4:45 pm	Session 4:
> Communication and Human Rights: "No Development Without Democracy, No
> Democracy Without Development"
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> Convenor: WSIS Civil Society Human Rights Caucus
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> Speakers:
> Aminata Traoré (Writer, Former Minister of Culture in Mali, Founder of
> the Forum For Another Mali, Keynote),
> Sharon Hom (Human Rights in China, USA),
> Souhayr Belhassen (Tunisian Human Rights League, Tunisia), Art McGee
> (Media Alliance, USA),
>  Amy West (Article 19, South Africa and UK),
> Stefano Rodota (Chairman of the European Data Protection Commissionners
> Working Group, Italy, to be confirmed)
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> 5:00 - 6:00 pm	Converging Agendas & Closing