MIC granted consultative status by UNESCO

The Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean (MIC) has been grant­ed con­sul­ta­tive sta­tus as a non-gov­ern­men­tal or­gan­i­sa­tion in part­ner­ship with the Unit­ed Na­tions Ed­u­ca­tion­al, Sci­en­tif­ic and Cul­tur­al Or­gan­i­sa­tion (UN­ESCO), strength­en­ing its role in pro­mot­ing in­de­pen­dent and sus­tain­able me­dia across the re­gion.

The de­ci­sion was made dur­ing the 225th ses­sion of UN­ESCO’s Ex­ec­u­tive Board in Paris, mark­ing on­ly the sec­ond time an NGO from the Eng­lish- and Dutch-speak­ing Caribbean has re­ceived the dis­tinc­tion.

The sta­tus for­mal­ly recog­nis­es MIC’s con­tri­bu­tion to me­dia de­vel­op­ment, ac­cess to in­for­ma­tion, me­dia and in­for­ma­tion lit­er­a­cy, free­dom of ex­pres­sion and me­dia vi­a­bil­i­ty. It al­so cre­ates op­por­tu­ni­ties for deep­er col­lab­o­ra­tion with UN­ESCO on emerg­ing is­sues af­fect­ing the re­gion­al me­dia land­scape.