Culture and Media

Vacations are usefull for imagining changes for your future. That is what we discovered this August and we decided to change the Closing Date of your entries! The new Closing Date is November 30th! Judges will take place on December…

Madhubani in Bihar, a busy town close to the Narhi Park of Study and Reflection featured on Pressenza recently [1] is renown across India for its special Madhubani art form that has remained the prerogative of certain kinds of narratives…

Surprised when demonstrators from all over the world took to Twitter as a protest tool? Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath, member of Twitter’s founding team, was not. Rather, he sees it as a return to its roots: Inspired by protest coordination tools…

Beirut was thrown into turmoil on Thursday evening as a terrorist attack against residents of Dahiyeh – a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital and a predominantly Shia neighborhood – threatened to draw the country into a region wide crisis.…

Reporters Without Borders regards today’s verdict in U.S. Army private Bradley Manning’s trial as dangerous. Although acquitted of “aiding the enemy,” he was found guilty of five counts of espionage and five counts of theft, for which he could receive…

Rafael Edwards has been working through drawing, painting, modelling, photographing the world and matter from the standpoint of Universal Humanism since childhood. His career can be observed and summarised in: http://www.rafaeledwards.com His photos in: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafa2010/collections/ I found “Rafa”, as we…

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the action taken by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to tighten the guidelines its prosecutors use in investigations involving the news media, but remains concerned about the direction of media freedom in the U.S.…

When you can “talk” 4 languages​​, the next step is to use your … passport! From June 14th and throughout the summer, the best choices of the judges of the contest of 2012, were hosted in Turkey, in Konya, in…

The governing Popular Party (PP) is on a crusade – not only against fundamental rights such as health, education, housing, work, but also against sexual and reproductive freedoms. The PP wants to impose a model of society, not only at…

The Day of the African Child commemoration was observed on 14 June 2013 at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.  The objective of the commemoration was to call attention to: “protecting children against harmful social and cultural practices: our…