Past Events
In 2019, Afghanistan marks the 100th anniversary of its declaration of full independence from Britain. Some women also gained new freedoms, including access to education. But women’s rights have swung between extremes under the several regimes that have ruled in Afghanistan since 1919, both repressing and then promoting women’s rights. Now, with peace talks underway with the Taliban, there’s fear the pendulum could swing once more, with hard-won freedoms being rolled back.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Board of Governors met yesterday at the agency’s Washington, D.C., headquarters to review key programming initiatives and distribution strategies. The meeting was the first for Grant Turner in his role as USAGM’s CEO and Director.
The United States Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Board of Governors awarded journalists and staff from each of its five networks yesterday with the David Burke Distinguished Journalism Awards. The awards recognize courage, excellence and professionalism in journalism and are given every year to USAGM journalists who demonstrate a commitment to providing accurate news and information that goes above and beyond.
The Board of Governors of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) met on September 11, 2019, at the agency’s Washington, D.C. headquarters to review key programming initiatives and distribution strategies. Board Chairman Kenneth Weinstein called for a moment of silence in tribute to the lives forever lost and changed on September 11, 2001, and the sacrifices made by the men and women serving the country since then.
Just one day after the world marked 30 years since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, the United States Agency for Global Media’s (USAGM) Board of Governors met and discussed ways in which its networks not only cover current events, but also help people living in unfree media environments better understand their often government-controlled or buried histories.
M4DF2019 was a day-long event examining how news media can stand with democratic institutions to support universal values and good governance.
A discussion among experts on the state of Ethiopia’s political landscape, the role and importance of independent media, and the challenges facing an ethnically diverse country as it prepares for multi-party elections in 2020.
The National Endowment for Democracy, in partnership with RFE/RL and the Embassy of the Czech Republic, invites you to a discussion with the 2019 cohort of Vaclav Havel Journalism Fellows from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and the Russian Federation.
USAGM's Board of Governors met to review current operations and to discuss the ongoing efforts by USAGM’s five networks to provide audiences in closed societies, or where free media is not yet fully established, with consistently accurate, objective, professional, and independent news and information.