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UNESCO Communication and Information Weekly Newsletter

• 27.01.17 UNESCO is seeking nominations for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2017 UNESCO invites the governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as international and regional professional non-governmental organizations, active in the field of press freedom, to nominate candidates for next year's UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

• 27.01.17 UNESCO Assistant Director-General Frank La Rue calls for balanced and objective media coverage to address hate speech against migrants and refugees Brussels, 26 January 2017. UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, Frank La Rue, visited Brussels, Belgium to speak at the symposium #SpreadNoHate co-organized by the European Union External Action Service and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations, and met with senior representatives of EU institutions.

• 26.01.17 Call for proposals: Academic Research Conference on Safety of Journalists 2017 UNESCO, in collaboration with the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), is pleased to invite contributions from the international community of scholars to the 2017 Academic Research Conference on Safety of Journalists. The academic conference, from 3 to 4 May 2017, is a special academic session which will be held alongside UNESCO's main celebration of World Press Freedom Day 2017 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

• 25.01.17 Consultation meeting with IPDC Council members to take place today The International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) will hold an informal meeting of its Council members and donor countries on 25 January 2017 at UNESCO's Headquarters in Paris, France. This consultation will allow for further discussion on new initiatives launched by the programme as well as on IPDC governance issues and the upcoming evaluation of the Programme.

• 24.01.17 Bolivia lanza informe sobre su panorama mediático para el ejercicio del derecho a la libertad de opinión y expresión

• 20.01.17 Director General condemns killing of TV journalist Igor Padilla in Honduras

• 19.01.17 UNESCO calls for proposals: Defining Internet Universality Indicators UNESCO launches a call for proposals to develop and finalize an elaborated set of Internet Universality Indicators through a global multi-stakeholder consultation online and offline within a one-year time frame from April 2017 to April 2018. The Organization therefore invites interested researchers, institutions, research consortiums, entities and organizations to submit their proposals, according to the General Terms of Reference by email to internetstudy@unesco.org. The deadline for submitting is 28 February 2017, before noon (CET). For further enquiries, you may contact Ms Xianhong Hu and Mr Josselyn Guillarmou.

• 17.01.17 Director-General condemns deadly attack on the parliament of Afghanistan

• 17.01.17 Director-General urges investigation into the murder of journalist Muhammad Jan in Pakistan

• 17.01.17 Get ready for World Radio Day 2017

• 16.01.17 Journalist killed every four days in 2016 According to UNESCO, 101 journalists were killed in the pursuit of a story in 2016, which on average constitutes one casualty every four days. This represents an increase when compared to the average annual trend over the previous decade (2006-2015), set forth in the latest UNESCO Director-General's Report on the Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity published in November 2016, where every five days a media worker paid the ultimate toll for his or her work.

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