Stories about Announcements from June, 2007
WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub wins One World Media award
Yesterday evening (June 14), the WITNESS/Global Voices Human Rights Video Hub pilot took the award for best New Media project at the One World Media Awards in London. As former Video Hub editor Sameer Padania writes in an e-mail this morning: "I know people say this all the time, but the award really does belong to the brave, committed, talented people on the ground - bloggers, human rights advocates, journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, citizens - who fought to bring these stories to light, and without whom we genuinely would have had nothing to say or show." (Visit this page to see the full list of winners).
Debating Darfur: Bloggers question Sudanese ambassador to U.N.
“What does Sudan want?” “Who do you think are arming the rebels?” These deceptively simple questions were posed to the Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations by members of the...
Add your citizen media event to the Global Voices calendar!
One of the best kept secrets of this website is a calendar of local and world events, bloggers meetings and conferences. This month is busy with meetings in South Africa,...