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align=center><SPAN><STRONG><FONT size=5><FONT color=#008000>Bangladesh
Consultation on AMARC10: <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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color=#008080>10 th World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters</FONT>
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align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#ff0000
size=4><STRONG>23 October, LGED Meeting Room 2010, Dhaka
Bangladesh</STRONG></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bangladesh
NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is</SPAN><SPAN
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in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of
the United Nations. </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">BNNRC
promoting the advocacy with the government in relations to community radio with
other organizations since its emergence. The objective of the Community Radio
intervention is to address crucial social issues at community level, such as
poverty and social exclusion, empower marginalized rural groups and catalyze
democratic processes and ongoing development efforts.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bangladesh
Consultation on World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC) 10th
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">will</SPAN> be held </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">at
<STRONG>LGED Meeting Room, Level – 4, Sher- e - Bangla Nagor, Dhaka 1207 on 23
October 2010 at 11: 00 AM -1:00 PM.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'">Dr.
Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">,
Honorable Secretary, Ministry of Information, Government of the Peoples Republic
of Bangladesh has kindly consented to be present as Chief Guest in the
Bangladesh Consultation on </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">10th
World Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><STRONG>Dr.
Akram H. Chowdhury</STRONG>, Honorable MP and Chairperson, Center for
e-Parliament Research will moderate the consultation. <STRONG>Mr. S.M.
Shameem Reza</STRONG>, Associate Professor of Mass Communication and Journalism
Department, University of Dhaka <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">will present a paper based on Community
Radio so far in Bangladesh.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Bangladesh
Consultation will organize by Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and
Communication (BNNRC) with support from UNICEF - Bangladesh through <SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">Empowering Communities:
Strengthening and Building Capacity of the Community Radio in Bangladesh
project.</SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
focus of the consultation is Recovering Memory Building the Future: Community
Radio and Poverty Reduction, Social Inclusion, Good Governance and Sustainable
Human Development. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">More
than 400 community broadcasters and stakeholders from over 110 countries and all
regions of the global community radio movement will gather at the AMARC 10
Global Conference from 8-13 November </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">La
Plata, Argentina<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>2010</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">,
among other issues, improve good practice in community media; explore strategies
to facilitate the establishment of enabling legal environments for community
media development, to define knowledge sharing and capacity building models for
action-research and mentoring; to reinforce content development leading to
social change; to facilitate the inclusion of women and; to encourage the
empowerment of communities through appropriation of community radio for social
justice and sustainable, democratic and participatory human development.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-margin-top-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
Global Conference will be under the sign of recovering memories and sharing
knowledge and accumulated experiences of the Latin American community radio
movement with Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America and, at the same
time to define how can AMARC and the community radio global movement present in
more than 120 countries increase the effectiveness of its
interventions.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The
overall theme of the Bangladesh Consultation will be the progress of community
radio in Bangladesh. There are both challenges and opportunities to establish
community radio in Bangladesh. Lots of initiatives are under processing and
hopes there are 14 Community Radio Station will go on air very soon.
</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Distinguished
Member of Parliament (MP), Policy–Makers and Representatives from Government,
Media, Academia, CSOs, and Corporate Sector are expected to join the Bangladesh
Consultation on 10th World Conference of Community Radio
Broadcasters.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Outputs
of Bangladesh Consultation will share with global communities in AMARC10: World
Conference of Community Radio Broadcasters <SPAN
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">8</SPAN>-13 November </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">La
Plata, Argentina 2010. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">We
invite you to join our Struggle for Strengthening and Building Capacity of the
Community Radio Sector in Bangladesh.</SPAN></P>
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align=left><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Bazlu<BR>_________________________<BR>AHM.
Bazlur Rahman-S21BR<BR>Chief Executive Officer<BR>Bangladesh NGOs Network for
Radio and Communication (BNNRC)<BR>[NGO in Special Consultative Status with the
UN Economic and Social Council]<BR>& <BR>Head, Community Radio Academy
<BR> <BR>House: 13/1, Road: 2, Shaymoli, Dhaka-1207 <BR>Post Box: 5095,
Dhaka 1205 Bangladesh<BR> <BR>Phone: 88-02-9130750, 88-02-9138501<BR>Cell:
01711881647 Fax: 88-02-9138501-105<BR>E-mail: </FONT><A
href="mailto:ceo@bnnrc.net"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>ceo@bnnrc.net</FONT></A><FONT face=Verdana size=2> </FONT><A
href="http://www.bnnrc.net"><FONT face=Verdana
size=2>www.bnnrc.net</FONT></A><BR></P><EM><EM><EM><EM><EM><EM><EM><EM><EM></DIV></EM></EM></EM></EM></EM></EM></EM></EM></EM></BODY></HTML>