The Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA), recently launched Profiles in Media Development Funding, a new online resource for media development funding. With support from the Open Society Foundations, CIMA has begun surveying organizations and producing brief profiles on them in order to better understand the donors facilitating media development work around the world. …
Representatives from governments, academia, civil society and international organizations will gather at the annual Open Government Partnership Global Summit 2016 which will take place in Paris, France on December 7-9. The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a multilateral initiative, which currently brings together 69 member states, non-governmental organizations, and representatives from civil society in a…
In Gambia, the Principles and Guidelines on Human and Peoples’ Rights. While Countering Terrorism in Africa were adopted at the African Commission’s 58th session. The Principles and Guidelines were developed on the basis of Article 45(1)(b) of the African Charter On Human and Peoples’ Rights, which mandates the African Commission to formulate standards and rules…
The World Movement For Democracy (WMD) is pleased to be celebrating the release of an Azeri investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, and prominent Bahraini activist, Zainab Al-Khawaja. Ismayilova served as head of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Azerbaijan service and published extremely detailed accounts of rampant corruption by President Aliyev and his family, making her a target…