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Programme descriptions - English - Haiti
- AlterPresse - Haití
This information agency was created at the end of 2001 by the Groupe Medialternatif, an association of mass communication professionals and of other associated disciplines aimed at promoting the creation and dynamics of alternative communication and information. Its main object is to forward and guarantee the right to information. This agency has turned into an important source of information on the political, economic, social, and cultural processes, and on the role-players involved in these processes: social movements, community associations, promotion and defense of human rights organisms, development organizations, research and non-formal educational institutions, universities, etc. It also plays an important role in circulating information amongst the Haitian abroad (over 2 million citizens constituting one fourth of the total national population) and the Haitians living in their country. - Groupe Médialternatif - Haití
This Médialternatif Group is an association made up by mass communication professionals and from other related disciplines. Its objective is to promote the creation and dynamics of alternative information and communication spaces within a democratic perspective, with respect for human rights and free expression. Groupe Médialternatif produces, disseminates, and publishes information, as well as meadia, educational, cultural, and public interest materials; it promotes, creates, and takes part in the creation of media spaces and means of communication while promoting the reflection on the communications inherent problmes. - Haiti Support Group - Reino Unido y Haití
The Haiti Support Group is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom; this Group has focused on developing contacts with grassroots and popular organizations in Haiti to provide them support. The Group monitors developments in Haiti, and disseminates information and advice to a wide range of individuals and organizations about the real issues and true context of the unfolding situation and also carries out several campaigns to exert pressure for actions in favor of Haitians rights. - Radio Sel - Haiti
A community radio station with a community, grassroots communication method of broadcasting local interest information. Most of the radio stations in Haiti are commercial. This project attempts to reach people in some of the regions which were hard hit by dictatorships which long ruled Haiti and to reflect and work on the issue that are priorities for them. - Sosyete Animasyon Kominikasyon Sosyal, SAKS - Haiti
This group seeks to create and strengthen community radio initiatives as a development tool. It was born as a result of the difficult political situation in Haiti in the 1990s. Its objective was to support clandestine radio stations that broadcast positions different from the dictator's. Today, 20 community radio stations in 8 departments throughout Haiti benefit from its support.
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