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After nearly 28 years, The Communication Initiative (The CI) Global is entering a new chapter. Following a period of transition, the global website has been transferred to the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, where it will be administered by the Social and Behaviour Change Communication Division. Wits' commitment to social change and justice makes it a trusted steward for The CI's legacy and future.
 
Co-founder Victoria Martin is pleased to see this work continue under Wits' leadership. Victoria knows that co-founder Warren Feek (1953–2024) would have felt deep pride in The CI Global's Africa-led direction.
 
We honour the team and partners who sustained The CI for decades. Meanwhile, La Iniciativa de Comunicación (CILA) continues independently at cila.comminitcila.com and is linked with The CI Global site.
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Radio & Human Rights - Peru

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The British Council Peru and the Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), a local NGO, are producing a human rights radio programme.
Communication Strategies

Broadcasts are weekly via a network of almost 50 radio stations in the provinces and Peru's largest commercial network, RPP. The BBC World Service has contributed through technical visits to Peru and editorial advice from London to the success of the project in three aspects: Improving production quality ; Journalistic advice on better programme content ; Training for journalists and radio station owners on handling human rights issues and ethics in journalism. This is a four year project which will run until the year 2001.
Development Issues

Rights
Key Points

The project has far exceeded its predicted 1.5 million listeners (there are over 2.8 million). With its campaigns the project has had particular success in bringing about specific changes in human rights protection in the following areas:Against press-ganging ('leva') into mandatory military service and amending of the Compulsory Military Service Law; The release of hundreds of innocent people wrongly accused of terrorism; Providing identity documents for thousands of innocent peasants mistakenly wanted by the authorities for terrorism.
Partners



British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Instituto de Defensa Legal (IDL), The British Council Peru.

Sources

Letter from Christian Sanchez to The Communication Initiative and The British Council Peru web site.