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Entries are now being accepted for the Move Media Rights Festival (MMRF), to be held in Thailand from Dec 15 to 20, 2008 in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human

Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency, which focuses on development issues and the global South, is looking for a part-time web editor.

By Kalinga Seneviratne

DHAKA, May 22 (IPS) - For 15 years the Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) campaigned for the introduction of community radio in the country, only to be turned down by successive, democratically-elected governments.

By Kalinga Seneviratne

DHAKA, May 14 (IPS) - The right to information (RTI), as espoused by the United Nations and international human rights organisations, does not have full endorsement from South Asian media practitioners and scholars.

By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, May 13 (IPS) - Images of the dead keep trickling out of Burma. The most moving are those of children who died when Cyclone Nargis tore through their world in the populous Irrawaddy delta.

By Catherine Makino

TOKYO, May 12 (IPS) - The final seconds in the life of a Japanese death row inmate -- the rasping muffled last words, the trapdoor springing open, the whip of a noose and a Buddhist gong signalling the end -- has made radio history here, waking listeners up to what goes on in one of the most secretive execution systems in the world.

By Nalaka Gunawardene

As the United Nations and aid agencies struggle with the incredibly uncaring Burmese bureaucracy to get much needed emergency relief for the affected Burmese people, the media outside Burma are having great difficulty accessing authentic information and images.

The May 18 Memorial Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2008 Gwangju Asian Human Rights Folk School (GAHRFS).