New world builds7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() These agencies tried to amplify the voices of the Third World through their own media, but also – unsuccessfully – within the media houses of the West. In the 1950s, the post-colonial nations identified the West’s monopoly over media and information and sought to ‘promote the free flow of ideas by word and by image’, as the 1945 Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) put it.Īs part of the Non-Aligned Movement, the countries and regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America developed their own national and regional news institutions: in 1958, a UNESCO seminar held in Quito (Ecuador) led to the establishment of a regional school to train journalists and communications professionals in 1960 known as the International Centre of Advanced Communication Studies for Latin America (CIESPAL) in 1961, a meeting held in Bangkok created the Organisation of Asia -Pacific News Agencies (OANA) and in 1963, a conference held in Tunis created the Union of African News Agencies (UANA). ![]() The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information, their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from their status during colonial times (BBC, for instance) as well as their command of the neocolonial structure of our times (CNN, for instance). It is remarkable how the media in a select few countries is able to set the record on matters around the world. Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Many women have been put off having more children or any at all due to the expense of child care and having to stop their careers, with gender discrimination still a key hurdle.Meas Sokhorn (Cambodia), Inverted Sewer, 2014. The limit has since been raised to three children.Ĭoncerned about China's first population drop in six decades and its rapid ageing, the government's political advisers proposed in March that single and unmarried women should have access to egg freezing and IVF treatment, among other services to boost the country's fertility rate. The projects come amid a flurry of measures Chinese provinces are rolling out to spur people to have children, including tax incentives, housing subsidies, and free or subsidised education for having a third child.Ĭhina implemented a rigid one-child policy from 1980 until 2015 - the root of many of its demographic challenges that have allowed India to become the world's most populous nation. "The society needs to guide young people more on the concept of marriage and childbirth," demographer He Yafu told the Times. ![]() The association already launched projects in 20 cities including Beijing last year, the Times said. ![]() Promoting marrying, having children at appropriate ages, encouraging parents to share child-rearing responsibilities, and curbing high "bride prices" and other outdated customs are the focus of the projects, the Times said.Ĭities included in the pilot include the manufacturing hub Guangzhou and Handan in China's Hebei province. HONG KONG, May 15 (Reuters) - China will launch pilot projects in more than 20 cities to create a "new-era" marriage and childbearing culture to foster a friendly child bearing environment, the latest move by authorities to boost the country's falling birth rate.Ĭhina's Family Planning Association, a national body that implements the government's population and fertility measures, will launch the projects to encourage women to marry and have children, state backed Global Times reported on Monday. ![]()
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