[CC] COVERAGE OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

[George(s) Lessard]

COVERAGE OF THE WORLD SUMMIT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT 
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/  


12.	Directly linked from the WSSD site, Earth Negotiations Bulletin will 
provide a daily report on negotiations at the event, as well as, in 
collaboration with UNDP, a special daily report on selected side events. 
http://www.iisd.ca/2002/wssd/  


13.	WSSD Radio Voix Sans Frontiers (VSF) Project - Africa, Latin America, 
Europe The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), as part 
of its ongoing "Radio Voices Without Frontiers" initiative, is bringing 
together 30 community radio producers from around Africa (including Angola, 
Mozambique, Malawi, Mali, Togo, the Gambia and South Africa), and others from 
North and Latin America and Europe, in Johannesburg to produce 10 days of live 
radio programming from August 26 to September 4, 2002.  There will be 5 hours 
of live programming each day - 2 hours in English, and 1 hour each in French, 
Portuguese, and Spanish. The feeds will provide in-depth community radio 
coverage of sustainable development issues, and will be distributed live via 
satellite and Internet platforms to community radio listeners around Africa and 
the world.  http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv82002/sld-5872.html  


14.	PLANetWIRE Coverage of the WSSD - Global Coverage will include features on 
issues pertinent to the Summit meeting and its underlying subject matter - 
poverty, and a global environmental agenda - with particular attention devoted 
to women's issues.  PLANetWIRE will also offer a series of background resources 
for journalists on its site related to WSSD 2002. 
http://www.comminit.com/pdskdv82002/sld-5874.html  


15.	Roads to the Summit - Published this year by Panos London and LEAD 
International, this 53-page report explores the work of 6 countries - India, 
Japan, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United States - in the area of 
sustainable development since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. This study is 
carried out in the context of these countries' preparations for the upcoming 
World Summit in Johannesburg. http://www.comminit.com/Materials/sld-5873.html  


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