Iraqi authorities have suspended the licenses of 10 satellite TV channels for promoting violence and sectarianism through their coverage of recent wave of violence in the country. Iraq’s leading al-Sharqiya and Qatar-based Al-Jazeera are among the pan-Arabic channels whose operating licenses were revoked on Sunday. The Iraqi Communication and Media Commission said in a statement that the satellite channels ...

Monoduo Films is fundraising for Creative Despite War, a documentary film by Ruì Díaz and Christian Rinke-Lazo about the most innovative young artists in Afghanistan. After two years of repeatedly visiting  Afghanistan to follow the development of the characters, they are just one visit away from concluding their story and starting post-production on the film. With generous support from the public through c ...

Nine films from Germany are selected for the 3rd International Uranium Film Festival Rio de Janeiro: Bombensicher, Abita. Die Kinder von Fukushima, Der Bauch von Tokyo, Enola, Fairlights, Friedlich in die Katastrophe, Halbwertszeit, Herr Hoppe und der Atommüll, Unter Kontrolle. Together with 41 other films from 20 different countries they will be screened between May 16th and May 26th in the cinema of Rio d ...

Micro-credit expert Muhammad Yunus has become the seventh person to have received the Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal, said John Boehner, Speaker of the US House of Representatives. Also, Dr Yunus is the first Muslim and the first Bengali to have received all these three awards. He was presented the Congressional Gold Medal 17th April at the Capitol Rotunda. T ...

by Alberto Tetta A documentary movie gives voice to the families of lesbians, bisexuals and transexuals in Turkey. “My child” is an intense work, gaining increasing attention. We met its director, Can Candan. “My daughter is transsexual, I come from Adana”. The young woman in one of the front rows in the Istanbul cinema, Fitaş, manages only these few words before bursting into tears. “Ever since my daughter ...

An outspoken investigative journalist and former CNN correspondent has once again stressed that the US-based network is engaged in spreading Western propaganda against Iran and Syria. Syria’s SANA news agency quoted Amber Lyon as saying that when she was working for the CNN, she received orders to send false news or exclude certain information which the US administration did not approve of with the aim of i ...

Book review: Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons Maybe this has happened to you… You’re an activist and an idealist and you’ve invested a lot of time into promoting the ideas of nuclear disarmament because you want to live without the insecurity that makes you worry about the future.  One day you find yourself at a dinner with family or friends and you get onto the subject that you’re passionate about: nuclear ...

The KLICK! Award 2013 has started – Send us your pictures! From 17-19 June, this year's Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn will spotlight "The Future of Growth – Economic Values and the Media”. A worldwide photo competition will honor outstanding images that capture related themes. This year's photo competition KLICK! is called “Your view of a Sustainable Economy”. The deadline for submissions is 10 ...

The Freedom of the Press Foundation published a full audio recording of Bradley Manning’s statement to the court taking responsibility for WikiLeaks’ releases. The transparency group Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an illicit audio recording of Pfc. Bradley Manning’s full statement on releasing classified documents to WikiLeaks as an act of conscience. Despite this being among the most importa ...

Pressenza is endorsing the European Initiative for Media Pluralism.  We call on all readers of Pressenza in the European Union to go to the website and sign the initiative.  The campaign requires 1 million signatures. On February 7th, a pan-European coalition of citizens and nearly one hundred media groups, professional bodies, Independent Journalists and Civil Society Organisations from across the continen ...