Deadline: 30 June 2013

Region: Worldwide

The United Nations Alliance of Civilizations ( UNAOC) and the International Organization for Migration ( IOM) invite the world’s youth to submit original and creative videos focusing on PLURAL+ themes: migration, diversity and social inclusion.

Young people up to 25 years old are invited to submit short videos of 5 minutes maximum in length. Deadline for video submission is 30^th of June, 2013.

Recognizing youth as powerful agents of social change in a world often characterized by intolerance, and cultural and religious divisions, PLURAL+ invites youth to address key challenges related to migrant integration, inclusiveness, identity, diversity, human rights and social cohesiveness, both at local and global levels.

Further information, including guidelines, regulations, awards, and the entry form can be found at the PLURAL+ website www.unaoc.org/pluralplus

You can watch PLURAL+ 2012 winners here

Deadline: 15 April 2013

Region: Europe

Evens Foundation has announced the call for the 3rd Evens Prize for Media Education. The prize will be awarded in 2013 and the deadline for submitting the applications is 15^th of April 2013.

Encouraging media literacy training for young children, Evens Foundation will award their 3^rd Prize to an ongoing European project that focuses on the enhancement of visual literacy of children between four and eight years old, directly or through their parents.

Evens Foundation wishes to highlight the importance of Media Education and to support sustainable projects in this field in Europe.

If you would like to apply, please read the “Call for Submissions” first and then fill in the “Application Form”, both can be found on Evans Foundation's website.

Interested in attending a weekend course in Reporting on Religion?

London, May 2013

Limited number, modest cost, organised by MDI and University of Westminster.

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Published: 14 January 2013

Country: Serbia

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people (LGBT) in Serbia barely get any media attention if it is not a debate over Pride parade, piece of sensational news or a press release. There is no discussion on same-sex marriage or the legal right for adopting the children. Media rarely report on issues related to the LGBT community in Serbia such as the terminology used to describe its members, their invisibility in media, legislation and (in) tolerance towards them and their sexual orientation.

Last week though, almost all media did report on LGBT community after Serbian court has delivered the first-ever verdict on discrimination based on sexual orientation in the workplace. The court has ordered the convicted to pay amend for causing mental pain and for violating the personal rights, reputation and honour of his colleague. It is an important step for Serbian society on a path of fully respected human and individual rights no matter how poorly they were reported in media.

Dates: 16-20 December 2012

Country: Egypt, Cairo

Media Diversity Institute has organised a workshop for Egyptian journalists on how to report on Parliament and the issues debated in Parliament. The participants in MDI workshop were 14 journalists from Egypt who also had an opportunity to compare and exchange the experience in political reporting in the UK and Egypt. One of the objectives of the workshop held in Cairo in December 2012 was to understand the importance of inclusive political debates.

The trainers, Mike Jempson and Ramy Mohsen, have organised sessions on a new way of Parliament reporting, writing skills,  profiling politicians and political parties, as well as covering elections and compering the experience of political reporting in the UK with the situation in Egypt.

The participants have valued the comparison between two political systems and the way of reporting on Parliament and political issues in the UK and Egypt, although most of them agreed that the things are not so very different even in different cultural contexts.

During the four-days long workshop the number of politicians, Egyptian MPs and experts were invited to take a part in various sessions of MDI training. One of the most vibrant sessions was the panel discussion between the trainees and the three elected politicians during which the MDI trainees was asking questions from which they could get stories.