Minority Voices Newsroom

Members of a minority group or an indigenous community, or their supporters, can - after having completed a free registration process - upload first-hand accounts, interviews, reports, pictures, and audio and video footage addressing issues of importance to them. Journalists and others wishing to use these contributions or learn more can then download and use the material from the website under Creative Commons licenses. The idea is that community activists and individuals - even those in very remote areas - can use this website to share their untold stories with the world's media so that journalists can investigate their situation. According to MRG, the communities featured on this website are some of the economically poorest and most disempowered, who otherwise have little or no opportunity to make their voices heard.

Rights, Media Development.

The Minority Voices Newsroom is part of a 3-year development and training project being run by MRG that also involves: providing community activists with training in building websites, making films, using social networking tools, writing press releases, and building lists of media contacts. The overall aims of the Minority Voices programme are to increase the inclusion of minority and indigenous peoples' perspectives in the European Union (EU) media, particularly in coverage of development issues relating to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and increase awareness among development policymakers of the specific needs of minority and indigenous communities in meeting the MDGs.