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2010

Human rights XI 8th UPR session, Geneva (3-14 May)
Health V Global health: from crisis to sound governance, Geneva (19-22 Apr.)
Food and Climate I How will Africa feed her children, Nairobi (5-16 Apr.)
Human rights X 7th UPR session, Geneva (8-17 Feb.)

2009

Health IV (16-17 Nov)
Water II Baltic Sea (14-20 Sept)
Climate IV (31 Aug - 12 Sept)
Peacebuilding II (17-29 May)
Human rights IV (4-8 May)
Water Forum (16-22 Mar.)
Access to food (18-19 Feb.)
Human rights III (2-6 Feb.)
Human rights Bern (29 Jan)

2008

Human Rights II Geneva Dec 2008
Health III Research for Health, Bamako 17-19 Nov
Human Rights I Geneva Sept 2008
Aid effectivness , Accra, Sept 2008
Climate III Real Impacts and Solutions Geneva June 2008
Health II Access to Health, Geneva May 2008
Human Rights Encounter II , Geneva May 2008 Can Multinational companies improve human rights
Peacebuilding I Beyond Wars, Building Peace, Geneva March 2008

2007

Climate II Understanding Solutions Geneva Nov 2007
Human Rights Encounter I , Geneva, Sept 2007 Health: a human right or a commodity?
Climate I Tracking Climate Change, Geneva Jun 2007

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WATER FORUM articles

Africa's Water News: Green Beer, At-Risk Aquatic Life, Clean Hands
By Tasha Eichenseher in Istanbul, Turkey
News from Africa for the 5th World Water Forum:Tanzania Brewer Drafted into Water Efficiency Effort
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Lack of Toilets "One of the Biggest Scandals in the Last 50 Years"
By Ms EICHENSEHER Tasha, National Geographic
Istanbul, Turkey March 18, 2009 -- Rose George , British author of the 2008 book "The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters," tells National Geographic Digital Media Science Editor Tasha Eichenseher why people should care about the 2.5 billion people around the globe who do not have access to a safe, clean place to do their business.
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Front-line perspectives: Journalists on water
BY Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
ISTANBUL March 23, 2009 – For Pakistani television journalist Shehryar Mufti it’s the underreported role of water resources in his country’s long-running conflict with India over Kashmir.
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UN warns of global row over water
By Saiful Islam Shamim, National News Agency of Bangladesh
Dhaka at Istanbul meet calls for integrated move in S Asi. From South Asia to the Middle East, from Australia to California, rivers and aquifers that cross boundaries have become potent sources of friction.
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Global Challenges, Global Reporting

Media21 is a Geneva-based initiative launched in 2006 by a team of international journalists to expand and improve media coverage of key global issues, including climate change, the environment, human rights, migration, peace-keeping and security, public health, trade, corporate social responsibility.

It aims to train and nurture a global network of journalists with enhanced commitment, perspective, technical knowledge and official access to report effectively on the most complex challenges of our time.

>> More about Media21

- Saving the Planet through Media?
  What is the role of media today? Does it have a responsibility to be involved, or should it sit on the sidelines observing? Daniel Wermus of Media21 Global Journalism Network explores the possibilities of reporters assuming a more active and outspoken role in global citizenship.>>
- MEDIA ADVISORY by RSF:
  Climate change reporting is becoming increasingly dangerous
  For the first time, leading press freedom organisations are joining together to call on world leaders to protect environment journalists and reaffirm their pledge to the Rio Declaration.>>
- Media21 journalists visit melting glacier and firewood heating system at the Mont-Blanc – Our video report
- Ressource document: Asia under Climate Threat: Role of Civil Society and Media
- Saving Lives, Promoting Accountability Through Media: Part I
- Visit our BLOG on our Peace & Security II workshop
- Mixed Blessings: Up the Yamuna and Down the Giri Watch this YouTube video
- Media21 participant wins British Council award for climate article

HOW WILL AFRICA FEED HER CHILDREN?
The challenge of climate change and food security in the 21st century
Co-organisers: World Meteorological Organization
Date: April 12th-16th, 2010 + field trip April 5th-11th
Location: Nairobi (Kenya)
Status: Registration open soon
11th Human Rights workshop during the 8th session of Universal Periodical Review of the Human Rights Council
Date: May 3-14th, 2010
Location: Geneva
Status: Registration open to journalists from Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Haiti, Turkey, Armenia and Belarus
Global health: from crisis to sound governance (Health V)
Date: 19-22 April 2010 + field trip
Location: Geneva
Status: Registration open soon

Neway Tsegaye was selected by an international jury as the third prize recipient of the Stop TB Partnership Award for Excellence in Reporting on Tuberculosis in Cancun, Mexico on 3rd Dec.
Imelda Abano was a recipient of the 10 Young Leaders Award in the Philippines given out by the Philippines' Graphic Magazine for her reporting done under the Media 21 Fellowship trip in Haiti during the "Access to Health" workshop (Geneva - Haiti June 2008)
Pakistani journalist Shabina Faraz won her country's joint UNESCO 2009 Green Journalist Award for best feature reporting. Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani awarded Faraz 1st prize for her role in environmental awareness raising at a ceremony in Islamabad on 19 November, 2009.

After every workshop, articles written by Media21 journalists are compiled and published in our ON ASSIGNMENT magazine.

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Peacebuilding II 09	Water Forum 2009	Climate Change IV
Human Rights 2009	Access to Food	Research for Health
Human Rights 2008	Aid Effectiveness	Climate Change

Food & Climate I Apr 10

Health V Apr 10

HumanRights XI May 10

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