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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Communication, Civil Society’s Standing Debt

By Mario Lubetkin
Civil society has a pending debt: an in-depth debate about communication, agree specialists in the sector participating in the World Social Forum, underway in this southern Brazilian city.

CULTURE-JAPAN: Row Rages over Film Showing Youth Violence

By Suvendrini Kakuchi
A movie showing gory violence by teenagers is drawing in crowds, but worried social experts and politicians say it is not a welcome film amid rising youth violence in Japan.

MEDIA-MOROCCO: Press Circumvents Censorship through Internet

By Tito Drago
The independent press in Morocco has had to turn to the Internet to get around closures by the government, carried out despite the democratisation process launched last year when King Mohamed VI was crowned after the death of his father, Hassan II.

COMMUNICATION-LATAM: New Website Helps Deaf, Blind Navigate Cyberspace

By IPS Correspondents
An Internet site designed by two Costa Rican library scientists for their graduate thesis has turned into a new tool for Latin Americans who are blind or deaf to access the global information network.

MEDIA/POLITICS-VENEZUELA: Cartoonist Vexes the President

By IPS Correspondents
Pedro León Zapata has published a cartoon every day for more than 40 years in a top Venezuelan newspaper. The artist had always thought they were inoffensive, but a clash with President Hugo Chávez has shown him otherwise.

MEDIA-ISRAEL: One Opinion … And The Other Opinion

By IPS Correspondents
On the fourth floor of a gloomy office building, an editor is bent over a table wading through stacks of tape. He casts an occasional glance at the three clocks above his head marked Local, GMT and Qatar.

ANDEAN COMMUNITY: Journalism a Powerful Anti-Corruption Weapon

By IPS Correspondents
The communications media play a vital role in the war on corruption, say experts of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), and have a strong impact on the social and political spheres.

COMMUNICATION: Internet Has No Room for ‘.health’ Specialisation

By Gustavo Capdevila
The World Health Organisation (WHO) expressed displeasure Friday with the rejection of its bid to create an Internet domain known as ".health," the United Nations agency's attempt to ensure the quality of medical information on the web.

\CORRECTED REPEAT\MEDIA-NIGERIA: Harmonising Laws Governing Media Practice.

By IPS Correspondents
Professional media groups in Nigeria are seeking the harmonisation of all laws governing the practice to remove duplication, contradictions and other inconsistencies.

MEDIA-NIGERIA: Harmonising Laws Governing Media Practice.

By IPS Correspondents
Professional media groups in Nigeria are seeking the harmonisation of all laws governing the practice to remove duplication, contradictions and other inconsistencies.

COMMUNICATIONS-BRAZIL: Judge Censors Soap Opera

By Mario Osava
Brazil's leading TV network publicly protested restrictions slapped by a judge on a soap opera that has stirred heated debate over the controversial issues it deals with, the numerous scenes of violence, and the fact that it is aired at prime-time.

COMMUNICATIONS-COSTA RICA: Advertisers Boycott Violent TV Shows

By IPS Correspondents
María Jesús Garro is an active Costa Rican seven-year-old who loves to watch cartoons on television, but she would never guess that she is seeing a violent act committed every two minutes.

COMMUNICATION: Africa Demands Rights to ‘.Africa’ Internet Suffix

By IPS Correspondents
African Internet professionals and users alike are loudly decrying attempts by a multinational corporation to obtain rights to the Internet top-level domain name (TLD) '.africa'.

COMMUNICATIONS-CUBA: Cybercafe for Intellectuals, Artists

By Dalia Acosta
Some 200 writers and editors will benefit from the opening of "El Aleph", the first cybercafe in Cuba, where the state maintains strict control over access to the Internet.

COMMUNICATION-SYRIA: Slowly, People Gaining Access to Internet

By IPS Correspondents
Only sixth months ago, the e-mail address on a well-known Syrian economist's business card had the domain name cyberia.net.lb. 'Lb' is for Lebanon, because Internet access through that neighbouring country was the only link between Syrians and the World Wide Web.

POLITICS-YUGOSLAVIA: Media in Serbia Face Transition Too

By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
Serbia's state media are in for a rough time ahead, as they try to throw off the legacy of communism and the tyrannical rule of former President Slobodan Milosevic, say analysts.

/CORRECTED REPEAT/COMMUNICATION-SYRIA: Slowly, People Gaining Access to Internet

By IPS Correspondents
Only six months ago, the e-mail address on a well-known Syrian economist's business card had the domain name cyberia.net.lb.

CULTURE-SINGAPORE: Controversial Play Tests Artistic Freedom

By IPS Correspondents
Singapore's newfound commitment to artistic freedom is being tested in a battle between a Singaporean playwright and the government over the staging of a play on Muslim women and divorce.

MEDIA-INDONESIA: Cleaning up Corruption a Tricky Task

By IPS Correspondents
Some Indonesian journalists are trying hard to wipe out the practice of "envelope journalism" or receiving cash or gifts from news sources -- and finding out that it will be a slow, difficult journey.

MEDIA/RIGHTS-MEXICO: Fox Pledges Easy Access to Public Info

By IPS Correspondents
Media and citizen access to public information in Mexico, long limited by government secrecy and a thick tangle of red tape, has received a boost from a new website set up by a local print media group and pledges of future transparency and open access by President-elect Vicente Fox and lawmakers.

RIGHTS-COMMUNICATIONS: Basque Reporter Wins Internat’l Award

By Tito Drago
Spanish journalist Carmen Gurruchaga received the annual award of the international organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF - Journalists Without Borders) at a Friday ceremony for her ongoing fight to defend press freedoms in Spain's Basque Country.
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