Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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Burmese lawmakers attend international conference on poverty

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Friday, 08 June 2012 14:40 Mizzima News

Lawmakers from 110 countries have reaffirmed their support to the principles and goals of the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICDP), which focuses on efforts to reduce poverty and safeguard people’s health and rights, including sexual and reproductive rights.

A high level delegation of Burmese officials attended including Maung Maung Swe, chair of the Parliament committee on Population and Social Development; Dr. Nay Lin, secretary, Health Development Committee; and Su Su Hlaing, a Member of Parliament.

A group portrait of conference delegates. Photo: iepfpd.org

The fifth International Parliamentarians Conference on poverty and development was held on May 24-25 in Istanbul.

“ICPD is about human beings, respect, rights, and what we can do to ensure that every individual can make his or her own decisions,” said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

With only two years until the Cairo agenda is expected to be complete, delegates committed themselves to advocate for increased national and external funding to reduce poverty, improve health and to achieve access to sexual and reproductive health, including family planning.

In particular, they committed to strive to “attain at least 10 per cent of national development budgets and development assistance budgets for population and reproductive health programmes.” That includes HIV prevention and reproductive health commodities.

They pledged to support policies that give special attention to the specific concerns and needs of young people by promoting and protecting their right to “access good quality education at all levels, health, sexual and reproductive services, including comprehensive sexuality education,” and to adopt measures to prevent all types of exploitation and abuse.

They also called upon the United Nations General Assembly “to play a key role in building support for the ICPD Programme of Action.”

The Istanbul conference, which concluded with an address by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was organized by the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development and UNFPA, under the auspices of Turkey’s Grand National Assembly.

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