| |
| Children |
| http://www.nordicom.gu.se/unesco/declarations.html |
| International
and regional declarations and resolutions
– children and media |
| |
| Development |
| Foreign
aid and planning programs |
For
journalists covering foreign aid, international
family planning and
population |
| |
| www.comminit.com |
| Providing
specific support to journalists addressing
development issues |
| |
| www.dawn.org.fj/ |
| Development
Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN),
an autonomous inter-regional organisation
of the South which advocates alternative development
processes that emphasise the basic survival
needs of the world's people, particularly
Third World women and their children. |
| |
| www.indiatogether.org |
| Information
for the civil society |
| |
| www.karmayog.com |
| A
free website launched in June 2004 to link
Mumbai-based non-profit organisations and
volunteers |
| |
| Environment |
| www.ens-news.com |
| Environmental
New Service. Original environmental news.
AmeriScan section offers local focus. Headlines
available by daily e-mail. |
| |
| www.enn.com/news/index.asp |
| Environmental
News Network. Original and aggregated news,
including audio. Also distributes environmental
press releases. |
| |
| www.eenews.net/Greenwire.htm |
| Greenwire
covers environmental and energy politics and
policy. |
| |
| www.eenews.net/EEDaily.htm |
| Energy
and Environment Daily focuses on environmental
and energy matters in Congress, with strong
regulatory / political focus. |
| |
| www.eenews.net/landletter.htm |
| Land
Letter offers in-depth coverage of natural
resources regulation and litigation. |
| |
| www.alternet.org/issues/index.html?IssueAreaID=18 |
| Alternet.org's
Envirohealth News published by the Independent
Media Institute. Offers news, commentary,
some press releases -- written by freelancers,
activists, and others generally outside the
mainstream news establishment. |
| |
| www.tidepool.org |
| Tidepool
offers web news and analysis, plus three e-mail
newsletters. |
| |
| www.headwatersnews.org/index.phtml |
| Headwaters
|
| |
| www.hcn.org |
| High
Country News offers text and audio news, commentary. |
| |
| www.chesapeakebay.net/news.htm |
| Chesapeake
Bay Program has a news section and aggregates
relevant articles from news media in the region. |
| |
| www.glrc.org |
| Great
Lakes Radio Consortium offers US and Canada
Great Lakes coverage with original audio,
text, photos. |
| |
| www.meepi.org |
| Maine
Environmental Policy Institute aggregates
mainstream environmental news stories from
or about Maine. |
| |
| www.niehs.nih.gov |
| National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
site regularly yields solid news stories. |
| |
| www.eurekalert.org |
| Eurekalert
offers science news from the American Association
for the Advancement of Science for news media
only. |
| |
| www.nationalacademies.org/mail.html |
| National
Academies of Science |
| |
| www.sej.org/go/021225-1.htm |
| US
Geological Service's 'Science Picks' newsletter
summarises recent and upcoming USGS research,
reports. Notes video, photos, other materials
available. |
| |
| www.sej.org/go/021225-2.htm |
| Yahoo
Environment and Nature News offers headlines,
links to stories from major news services,
especially AP and Reuters. |
| |
| www.on-index_environment_d@e.moreover.com |
| Moreover's
environment news headlines |
| |
| www.alltheweb.com |
| All
The Web collects news stories on an hourly
basis from more than 3,000 sources. |
| |
| www.sej.org/go/021225-3.htm |
| Stateline.org
environment / energy news gives original state-specific
news and analysis, strong legislative / regulatory
focus. |
| |
| www.house.gov/house/floor/thisweek.htm |
| US
Congress Calendars house schedule |
| |
| www.sej.org/go/021225-4.htm |
| US
Congress Calendars senate schedule |
| |
| www.gao.gov/subtest/subscribe.html |
| Today's
GAO reports |
| |
| www.insideepa.com |
| Inside
EPA offers daily news about EPA, from Inside
Washington Publishers. |
| |
| www.ems.org/news.html |
| Environmental
Media Services offers a mix of current press
releases and news stories with environmentalist
slant. Site offers links to many other environmental
news / info sources. |
| |
| www.ascribe.org/livewire.html |
| Ascribe's
Livewire distributes press releases. Strong
focus on nonprofits, educational institutions,
medical centres, research labs, government
agencies, and foundations. Corporate releases
also. |
| |
| www.epa.gov/enviro
|
| EPA
Envirofacts Data Darehouse gives access to
many EPA databases. Look up local data and
reports, generate maps of environmental info,
and more. |
| |
| www.epa.gov/echo |
| EPA's
ECHO Database covers environmental compliance
and reporting. |
| |
| www.scorecard.org |
| Scorecard.
The eco-group Environmental Defense has integrated
environmental data from more than 400 sources
into a single searchable interface. Data drawn
mainly from EPA, but also Department of Agriculture
and other agencies, as well as some state
/ local sources. |
| |
| www.sej.org |
| In
addition to TipSheet, SEJ offers other environmental
news services that can yield solid news leads.
|
| |
| www.cseindia.org |
| The
Centre for Science and Environment is one
of India's leading environmental NGOs with
a deep interest in sustainable natural resource
management. |
| |
| www.wri.org |
| WRI.org
(World Resources Institute) carries international
features on environment and development issues. |
 |
| Human
rights |
| www.humanscapeindia.net |
| An
interactive forum for all those who are concerned
about the human situation and would like to
do contribute towards positive change. |
| |
| www.righttofood.com |
| The
"Right to Food Campaign" is an informal
network of organisations and individuals committed
to the realisation of the right to food in
India. |
| |
| www.indiatogether.org |
| Information
for the civil society |
| |
| http://www.unhchr.ch/women/ |
Women's
Rights are Human Rights. The United Nations
Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights has devoted a section of its Website
to Women's Human rights. Within you will find
links to: International instruments on the
rights of women (treaties and monitoring bodies),
Women's Rights on the Agenda of UN Bodies,
Documents on gender equality and women's human
rights (OHCHR and other UN publications),
Issues in focus (Violence against Women; Racial
Discrimination; Trafficking in Persons; Reproductive
Rights; Traditional Practices; HIV/AIDS),
World Conferences |
|
|
ICT |
| Up-scaling
pro-poor ICT policies and practices |
| A
review of experience with emphasis on low
income countries in Asia and Africa |
| |
| Journalistic
skills |
| The
Net for Journalists: A practical guide to
the Internet for journalists in developing
countries. |
| UNESCO
collaborated with the Thomson Foundation and
Commonwealth Broadcasting Association to produce
a handbook for journalists of developing countries
on the use of Internet for journalistic purposes.
The handbook can be downloaded from this link. |
| |
| www.panos.org.uk/iwitness |
| Journalists
looking for free, up-to-date resources, news
and debate on the information society can
get all this and more. |
| |
| www.journalism.org |
| The
site offers a catalog of tools, techniques
and ideas, lists of principles, empirical
research, links to other journalism sites,
job links, compilations of ethics codes and
many other resources for journalists and citizens
alike. |
| |
| www.pressnetweb.com |
| An
extensive world-wide selection of resources
on Journalists, Journalism and Social Mass
media |
| |
| www.newsu.org |
| NewsU
offers innovative online training for journalists
through self-directed modules, e-seminars
and faculty-led courses. |
| |
| www.stats.org |
| The
site primarily corrects scientific and medical
misinformation in the media, particularly
american media but some of it pertains to
the Indian media as well. |
| |
| www.comminit.com |
| Writing
for Change: An Interactive Guide to Effective
Writing, Writing for Science, and Writing
for Advocacy A training resource designed
for those working in the not-for-profit sector
including researchers, scientists, project
managers, team members, campaigners, fundraisers,
social activists and writers to assist in
further developing writing skills.
|
| |
| www.mervinblock.com/index |
| Television
newswriting workshop with Mervin Block, a
broadcast writing coach and author.Block teaches
newswriting workshops for TV and radio newsrooms
around the country and is a regular presenter
at writing and broadcasting conventions |
| |
| Legal |
| www.article19.org |
| UNESCO
has published a worldwide study of freedom-of-information
laws that examines best practices in 10 countries.
Written by ARTICLE 19 Law Programme Director
Toby Mendel, "Freedom on Information:A
Comparative Legal Survey" analyses laws
in Bulgaria, India, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan,
South Africa,Sweden, Thailand, the United
Kingdom and the United States.The article
is available in pdf format. |
| |
| www.article19.org |
| ARTICLE
19 has published a training manual that gives
public officials a "roadmap" for
implementing freedom-of-information laws that
conform with international standards on free
expression. |
| |
| www.geocities.com/mahadhikar
|
| A
website on the right to information in Maharashtra. |
| |
| Media |
| www.communityradionetwork.org |
| The
website covers issues such as advocacy initiatives
for community radio, the "how-to"
of setting up a community radio station in
India and the various community radio projects
in the country. Apart from this, the website
also takes a look at the global scenario in
community radio, with an emphasis on South
Asia, and has clips of audio programmes which
are available for downloading. |
| |
| http://www.voicesforall.org/ipr/
|
| VOICES
and IPR is a site devoted to Intellectual
Property Rights & the media in India.
The site provides information about IPR, covers
the discussions at a workshop on "IPR
& the media-emerging paradigms" held
in Bangalore in April 2004, and provides a
forum for discussion of IPR related issues. |
| |
| www.media-awareness.ca//promo/index.cfm?mylistid=12 |
| The
Media Awareness Network site has an extensive
collection of media education and Internet
literacy resources. |
| |
| www.wacc.org.uk |
| WACC's
members, affiliates and readers are key players
in the struggle for communication rights across
the world. |
| |
| www.ips.org |
| The
Inter press Service is an independent voice
from the South and for development IPS coverage
is focused on developing regions of the globe,
but within the context of globalisation and
its impacts. The stories cover topics like
economy, politics, human rights and democratisation,
environment and development. |
| |
| www.ipsnews.net |
| Inter
press Service is an international news agency
specialising in in-depth features on global
issues relevant to the developing world. |
| |
| www.africamediaethics.com |
| The
website provides a comprehensive listing of
links on media ethics resources, including
press codes, journalism training institutes
and handbooks and also links up journalists,
media development groups and trainers through
an electronic network that facilitates information
exchanges.
|
| |
| www.article19.org |
| UNESCO
has published a worldwide study of freedom-of-information
laws that examines best practices in 10 countries.
Written by ARTICLE 19 Law Programme Director
Toby Mendel, "Freedom on Information:A
Comparative Legal Survey" analyses laws
in Bulgaria, India, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan,
South Africa,Sweden, Thailand, the United
Kingdom and the United States.The article
is available in pdf format. |
| |
| www.article19.org |
| ARTICLE
19 has published a training manual that gives
public officials a "roadmap" for
implementing freedom-of-information laws that
conform with international standards on free
expression. |
| |
| www.reportingpeople.org |
| Website
managed by the Press Institute of India, which
includes a directory of "development
journalists." |
| |
| www.cochrane.org |
| For
the media resources for the media |
| |
| www.kuwj.org |
| The
only organisation representing journalists
in Kerala. |
| |
| www.thehoot.org
|
| A
site that tracks media and new coverage. |
| |
| www.prdomain.com |
| A
one-stop resource for all journalists and
media people and a forum for companies to
put up information about themselves. |
| |
| www.mediachannel.org
|
| An
extremely useful site what gives links, info
on international media issues including women
and media. |
| |
| www.fair.org
|
| A
site on the way the media covers contemporary
issues (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). |
| |
| www.opendemocracy.net
|
| Interesting
and alternative perspectives on contemporary
issues and the media. |
| |
| www.epwrf.res.in
|
| An
enormous amount of regularly updated data
on the economic, social and welfare sectors.
|
| |
| www.epw.org.in
|
| Current
and previous issues of the Economic and Political
Weekly are available in full along with a
search engine with archives from 1998. |
| |
| www.ipsnews.net |
| Inter
Press Service News Agency (IPS), the world's
leading provider of information on global
issues, is backed by a network of journalists
in more than 100 countries. IPS focuses its
news coverage on the events and global processes
affecting the economic, social and political
development of peoples and nations. |
| |
| www.mwaw.org |
| Media
Workers Against War puts together material
from different newspapers and websites on
war and media. For those interested in the
way the media responds to issues arising out
of war, or war-like situations, it would be
worth checking out. |
| |
| www.himalmag.com |
| A
South Asian newsmagazine |
| |
| www.zmag.org
|
| This
is an independent monthly of critical thinking
on political, cultural, social, and economic
life in the US. |
| |
| www.whrnet.org |
| WHRnet
News is a monthly e-bulletin bringing you
the latest in WHRnet news, alerts, interviews,
critical perspectives, and web highlights. |
| |
| www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/home.asp |
| World
Social Forum 2003 is a continuation of various
meetings held by civil society organisations
aiming to find alternatives to the process
of globalisation that is being led by large
multinational corporations and by governments
and international institutions serving corporate
interests. The WSF site provides information
on previous and preparatory meetings, forum
organisers, the WSF 2003 programme, and globalisation
and other economic and political issues. |
| |
| www.inomy.com |
| A
source for India-related developments in the
Internet economy. |
| |
| www.icfj.org/fus1A.html |
| A
guide to International Journalism fellows |
| |
| www.ijnet.org |
| The
International Journalists' Network site |
| |
| www.saja.org |
| The
South Asian Journalists Association |
| |
| www.ifex.org |
| The
International Freedom of Expression eXchange
(IFEX) Clearing House |
| |
| www.freenewsgoa.net
|
| A
Goa-based news site |
| |
| www.peacemonger.com |
| A
web magazine to promote peace and brotherhood |
| |
| www.freedominfo.org |
| The
efforts of freedom of information advocates
around the world |
| |
| www.wan-press.org |
| The
World Association of Newspapers |
| |
| mediaah.blogspot.com/ |
| Mediaah!
A no-holds-barred, independent commentary
on the Indian media. It features the personal
not-for-profit weblog of Pradyuman Maheshwari. |
| |
| www.forum.org.kh/~wmc/ |
| The
Women's Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC) is
a local non-profit NGO using the media to
promote social change in Cambodian society |
| |
| www.genderlinks.org.za |
| Promoting
gender equality in and through the media |
|
| Health
and medicine |
| www.npfhelpdesk.org
|
| The
National Press Foundation (NPF) launched the
NPF Helpdesk, a free, online resource for
reporters worldwide covering issues related
to HIV and AIDS>Read
more |
| www.globalhealthreporting.org |
|
Provides
the latest news and information about HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis and malaria worldwide.
|
| |
| www.issuesinmedicalethics.org |
| Platform
for discussion on health care issues. |
| |
| www.comminit.org |
| For
health journalists |
| |
| www.cochrane.org |
| The
Cochrane Collaboration is an international
not-for-profit organisation, providing up-to-date
information about the effects of health care. |
| |
| www.prb.org/IndiaAIDSFacts |
| The
Population Reference Bureau's factsheet on
HIV/AIDS |
| |
| www.comminit.com |
| The
Community Initiative: To expand dialogue,
debate and review of key communication issues
and programmes |
| |
| www.cehat.org |
| Centre
for Enquiry Into Health and Allied Themes |
| |
| www.mfcindia.org |
| The
Medico Friend Circle |
| |
| www.genderandaids.org |
| An
online resource centre on the gender dimensions
of the HIV/AIDS epidemic |
| |
| www.amwa.org |
| The
American Medical Writers Association, the
leading professional organization for biomedical
communicators. |
| |
| Population |
| www.prb.org |
| The
Population Reference Bureau informs people
about the population dimensions of important
social, economic, and political issues. |
|
| Women |
| www.wfsnews.org |
| Women's
Feature Service —the only
international women's features syndicate -
has launched a virtual media centre on gender
and HIV/AIDS issues in India: a one-stop resource
centre for new findings on the subject. |
| |
| www.dawn.org.fj/ |
| Development
Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN),
an autonomous inter-regional organisation
of the South which advocates alternative development
processes that emphasise the basic survival
needs of the world's people, particularly
Third World women and their children. |
| |
| www.femnet.or.ke |
| The
African Women's Development and Communication
Network (FEMNET). |
| |
| www.jazbah.org |
| This
site is devoted to all those women of Pakistan
who have worked hard to achieve great goals
and made significant, positive impacts on
Pakistani society.
|
| |
| www.womenofchina.com.cn |
| "The
authoritative English voice for Chinese women.The
magazine strives to share with the world current
realities in Chinese women's lives, and their
experiences, concerns and viewpoints through
in-depth reports on women's issues and the
development of Chinese women." |
| |
| www.womensenews.org
|
| This
site has features of women from around the
world and is useful for other links and also
for ideas. |
| |
| www.wluml.org
|
| Women
Living Under Muslim Law. |
| |
| www.indiatogether.org
|
| This
site has a separate women's section that has
articles, links and information. |
| |
| www.wedo.org
|
| This
is the site of the Women Environment and Development
Organisation that was formed after the Rio
conference. |
| |
| www.undp.org
(Of the UN Development Programme) |
| This
site has developmental, environmental and
women's news, data and information. |
| |
www.oneworld.org
(which hosts dozens of sites of NGOs from
around the world, including groups working
on women's issues)
This site has developmental, environmental
and women's news, data and information. |
| |
| www.censusindia.net |
| The
Census of India site offers data on women
in India. |
| |
| www.nic.in |
| The
women's ministry hosts all the central government
ministries and has links to all the states. |
| |
| www.whrnet.org |
| A
global link to Women's Human Rights News,
Views, and Advocacy |
| |
| www.aviva.org |
| Women's
World-Wide Web |
| |
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