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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">UNESCO is organizing an international conference for the decision makers of news organizations, especially the owners, publishers, and editor-in-chiefs. This follows UNESCO Executive Board 196/Decision 31 which requests "the Director-General to convene a conference with high level representatives of news organizations from all regions, including community media and small media outlets, open to stakeholders, to be fully funded by extra-budgetary contributions, in order for them to share good practices on the safety of journalists and more proactively highlight the issue of journalist safety".</SPAN></DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">
<DIV><BR>The event aims to provide news organizations with a platform to discuss existing and new measures aimed to strengthen journalists’ safety worldwide and engage with Member States on these issues. The conference is hosted in partnership with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) and supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), The Open Society Foundations (OSF), the World Association of Community Broadcasters (AMARC), Al Jazeera Media Network, Australia, Austria, Latvia, Finland, The Netherlands, and Sweden. Please see the concept note <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><A href="http://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/concept_note.pdf">http://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/concept_note.pdf</A></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"> for more information about the event.<BR></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Programme: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; FONT-VARIANT: normal; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #ff0000; FONT-STYLE: normal; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><A href="https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/programme_en.pdf">https://en.unesco.org/sites/default/files/programme_en.pdf</A></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>More information: <A href="http://en.unesco.org/safety-media-professionals">http://en.unesco.org/safety-media-professionals</A></DIV>
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<DIV>UNESCO documents on safety of journalists: <A href="http://en.unesco.org/node/253819">http://en.unesco.org/node/253819</A></DIV>
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<DIV>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><BR> <BR>Christoph Dietz<BR>CAMECO<BR>Postfach 10 21 04 <BR>D-52021 Aachen, Germany<BR>Tel.: 0049 - 241 - 70 13 12 14<BR>Fax: 0049 - 241 - 70 13 12 33<BR><A href="mailto:christoph.dietz@cameco.org">christoph.dietz@cameco.org</A></DIV>
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