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Media practitioners are being invited to attend a workshop on human rights at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Friday, February 6 from 9:00 am to noon. Sponsored by the Inter American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in collaboration with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), the event is designed to sensitize media personnel about the activities of the Commission...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is assisting to transform community radio stations into multimedia centres, thereby facilitating the development of a knowledge-based society. This was noted by Vilma Gregory, Head of the Multimedia Centre at the University of Technology (UTech), in an interview with JIS News at the multimedia exhibition, which formed part of the just...

Laureate of the 2003 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, Amira Hass, has said that the award showed international recognition and respect for her work, but accepted it with mixed feelings, because it was in stark contrast to the unease, with which her work was being read in Israel. In her acceptance speech at King's House on Friday, May 2,...

Director General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Ko

Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arrived in the island yesterday (May 1) for his first official visit to the country. Speaking to journalists on his arrival at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, the Director-General, who opened the World Press Freedom Conference today (May 2) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, noted...

Over 150 delegates from countries around the world are expected in the island for the World Press Freedom Day Conference, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston from May 2 to 3. To be conducted in English, French and Spanish, the Conference will see the participation of a number of Caribbean delegates, including officials from Jamaica, Grenada,...

Jamaica is considered to be one of the more tolerant countries in the world, in relation to freedom of the press. This observation has been made by Mogens Schmidt, Director for the Division of Freedom of Expression at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in France. "Whenever we assess the press freedom situation globally...

Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), will be making his first official visit to Jamaica on Thursday, May 1 for the opening of the International World Press Freedom Day Conference, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston from May 2 to 3. It is the first time since the observation...