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• 27.11.15 Empowering people in South East Europe to make use of their Press Council Democracy requires a well-informed and pluralistic public sphere. This is connected to media striving for truth, unbiased and high‐quality reporting. The level of participation and engagement of citizens in the society is shaped by the ability of the media to awaken and maintain their interest in a variety of issues. Civil society also has a large role to play in holding the media accountable. But how can civil society perform this role? One way is through being able to distinguish low-quality media outlets, and another is by lodging complaints to a media self-regulation mechanism, such a press council, when professional standards of journalism have been potentially breached.

• 27.11.15 Director-General condemns killing of Indian journalist Mithilesh Pandey in Bihar The Director-General of UNESCO today condemned the killing of online journalist Mithilesh Pandey in the Indian state of Bihar.

• 27.11.15 Director-General denounces killing of magazine editor Raghavendra Dube in India The Director-General of UNESCO today condemned the killing of Raghavendra Dube, owner and editor of a local weekly magazine in Bombay, India.

• 27.11.15 Multilingualism in Cyberspace Conference: Indigenous Languages for Empowerment The regional conference "Multilingualism in Cyberspace: Indigenous Languages for Empowerment" is being held on 26 and 27 November 2015 at the National University for Distance Education (UNED) in San José, Costa Rica, seeking to empower indigenous language speakers, particularly those from Latin America, with regards to the sustainable development agenda.

• 27.11.15 Innovative ways to preserve and share knowledge about traditional games explored in Beijing How can traditional games be safeguarded as a living heritage? How can new information and communication technologies (ICTs) be used not only to preserve traditional games but also to reproduce and adapt them to the digital age in forms that new generations can understand? These critical questions were discussed by experts, innovators and stakeholders at the 2015 Tencent Interactive Entertainment Art Summit on 26 November in Beijing.

• 26.11.15 UNESCO and the Global Alliance on Media and Gender launch a joint global survey on gender and media On the heels of International Development Cooperation Meeting on Gender and Media and the First General Assembly of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG), which will take place from 7 to 10 December in Geneva, UNESCO joins hands with GAMAG to launch a preliminary mapping of gender and media actions globally.

• 26.11.15 Promoting cross-cultural dialogue among Myanmar ethnic media groups In an effort to promote peace and cross-cultural dialogue among Myanmar ethnic media groups, the project "Online media for peace" was implemented by UNESCO and Burma News International (BNI) within the framework of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) between March 2014 and February 2015.

• 26.11.15 Director-General condemns killing of reporter Hafeez Ur Rehman in Pakistan The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today condemned the murder of Hafeez Ur Rehman, a television reporter, in Kohat, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in northwestern Pakistan.

• 24.11.15 UNESCO is seeking nominations for UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2016 UNESCO invites the governments of Member States, in consultation with their National Commissions, as well as from international and regional professional and non-governmental organizations active in the fields of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for next year's UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.

• 23.11.15 International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists commemorated in Nigeria Nigeria joined the rest of the world to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists at a high level conference organized by UNESCO in conjunction with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the Reitz Continental Hotel, Abuja, on 2 November 2015.

• 23.11.15 UNESCO organizes training on inclusive publishing and web accessibility in Kenya UNESCO, in partnership with stakeholders in the education sector in Kenya, organized a five-day training on Inclusive publishing and web accessibility from 9 to 13 November 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. The training focused on persons with disabilities, especially the visually impaired and those with hearing impairment. The main aim of the training was to prepare education stakeholders to ensure equal access to digital educational materials.

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