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<h3 style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><u><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Third World
Radio Day on February 13, 2014<u></u><u></u></span></u></h3>
<h3 style="margin-top:0cm;text-align:center" align="center"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-CA">Reinforcing
freedom of expression and cultural diversity<u></u><u></u></span></i></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN">Montreal,
January 31<sup>st</sup>,
2014</span></i><span lang="EN">. On the occasion of the 3rd World Radio Day,
on February 13<sup>th</sup>,
2014, AMARC is working to increase access to the airwaves for
local and
community radios. In this perspective, AMARC calls on community
radios to use
the platform of exchange offered by the International Union of
Public Radios
and Televisions <b><a href="http://www.wrd13.com" target="_blank"><span>www.wrd13.com</span></a>.</b><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">On November 3<sup>rd</sup>,
2011, at its 36<sup>th</sup> General Conference, UNESCO
recognized the "<b><i>transformative
power of radio</i></b>" by establishing the World Radio Day
every February
13. This date marks the launch in New York of the United Nations
Radio in 1946,
which regurlarly give the floor to AMARC. "<i>UNESCO is working to support radio as an instrument of
peace: <b>a free,
independent and pluralistic radio
is a vital element for advancing human rights and
fundamental freedoms</b></i>",
declared the Director- General of UNESCO, Mrs. Irina Bokova.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Since the
first programme, more than a century ago, radio remains a
powerful source of
information and mobilization for education, economic development
and social
change. In a world where illiteracy and analphabetism affects a
quarter of the
world population, radio is the medium that reaches the largest
audience
worldwide. For Patrice Berger, engineer at the CNRS ( National
Centre for
Scientific Research) and President of the Office of Radio
Broadcasting and
Electronic Communications (ORCEL , France), "<b><i>half the world's
population is
permanently affected by information-illiteracy and public,
associative and
community radio remains the benchmark media for billions of
people.</i></b>"
On February 13 in Paris, AMARC will recall that in this era of
new technologies,
radio remains the most accessible in the world, with low cost of
production and
broadcasting.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Radio plays
a pivotal role in emergency communications and disaster relief.
It is also one
of the most important ways to increase access to knowledge.
World Radio Day
aims to raise public awareness regarding the importance of
radio, to encourage
states to provide access to information through radio and to
improve international
cooperation between radio stations. In some countries, public
service
broadcasting and community radio are at the forefront of this
cooperation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:center" align="center"><b><u><span lang="EN">This
year, Paris is the capital
of the World Radio Day 2014!<u></u><u></u></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">To celebrate
this day, the World Radio Day International Committee (WRD),
which includes the
main audiovisual and telecommunications organizations among
which AMARC, has
certified three actions:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">1 - Radios
around the world are invited to promote the <b>official interactive platform of the WRD International
Committee</b> (<a href="http://www.wrd13.com" target="_blank"><span>www.wrd13.com</span></a>), inviting listeners to
deposit small messages,
in all languages, that they can readily download for broadcast
on February 13<sup>th</sup>.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">2 - A <b>classical
music concert</b> offered by
Radio France to all radios -associative, community, public or
private- that can
be broadcast freely on February 13.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">3 – The WRD
International Committee, UNESCO and URTI organize the <b>official party of the World Radio Day 2014</b> at the
Théâtre du
Châtelet at the heart of Paris, on February 13. This evening
will be held under
the chairmanship of Irina Bokova with representatives of the WRD
International
Committee, including AMARC, and will be followed by a concert by
the Orchestre
National de France.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-CA">4 -
UNESCO also encourages broad networks and community radios to
promote through
airwaves themes like access to information, freedom of
expression and gender
equality. Radios can send now to the UNESCO website, a
meaningful programme or
spot of their local action, royalty-free, which can be exchanged
and broadcast
by all radios.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN">Contact: <a href="mailto:info@wrd13.com" target="_blank"><span>info@wrd13.com</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.worldradioday.org/index.html" target="_blank"><span>http://www.worldradioday.org/index.html</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><a href="http://www.wrd13.com/" target="_blank"><span>http://www.wrd13.com/</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"" lang="FR"><a href="http://www.unesco.org/new/world-radio-day" target="_blank"><span lang="EN">http://www.unesco.org/new/world-radio-day</span></a></span></u><span lang="EN"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><i><span lang="EN-CA">Through
service to members, networking and project implementation, the
World
Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), brings
together a network
of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community
media
stakeholders in more than 150 countries. The main global
impact of AMARC since
its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the
establishment of a
worldwide community radio sector that has democratized the
media sector. AMARC
advocates for the right to communicate at the international,
national, local
and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the
interests of the
community radio movement through solidarity, networking and
cooperation.</span></i><span lang="EN-CA"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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