Meeting in Douala, Cameroon from 26-29 October 2021, as part of a Regional Awareness Forum and capacity building of media and regulatory bodies for communication on prevention of conflicts linked to hate speech and the fight against this phenomenon in Central Africa, participants decided to create a Platform of organisations of media professionals for peace and sustainable development in Central Africa.
The main objective of this platform is to serve as a framework for exchanges, experience sharing and good practices as well as content and reflection around issues relating to peace and sustainable development in Central Africa.
In this regard, the platform will place particular emphasis on actions aimed at preventing, reducing, and vigorously combating the rise in hate speech in the media and on social networks.
Participants set up a working group with the mission of daily running the platform and to produce the basic texts of the platform.
Cross section of participant pose after Regional forum
A General Assembly to adopt the basic texts of the platform will be organised within a month. It will be followed by setting up an executive office to carry-out the activities of the platform.
Participants took this opportunity to express their gratitude to the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Commission which co-organized the Douala Forum. They also commended the role played by all the partners that contributed to the implementation and the success of this important meeting.
Apart from the Government of Cameroon, the partners include UNESCO (Office for Central Africa), the Joint United Nations Office for Human Rights in the DRC, the United Nations Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa, the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Mission for Stabilisation in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) and the United Nations Mission for Stabilisation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). In addition, the participants appreciated the quality of the discussions and the richness of the interventions of the experts mobilised as well as the depth of the intervention of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for Central Africa in his opening speech on 26 October 2021.
They finally appealed for UNOCA and the ECCAS Commission as well as the other relevant UN entities to provide them with the requisite support to achieve their goals. Done in Douala, 29 October 2021. The participants.
It is comprised of a Coordinator, a Deputy Coordinator, a Rapporteur, a Deputy Rapporteur and five members: As listed below.
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