Nubeh Nai Vonna, journalist at CBS radio in the Anglophone town of Bamenda spot lights #AFFCameroon Cohort 5 session on the importance of #FactChecking in Cameroon. 

Listen to testimonies of trainers and fellows in the following excerpts

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We celebrate women everyday. Thank you to all ladies who have journeyed with us in mitigating #HateSpeech, #Misinformation, and #Violence in our communities. We keep working for a #HateFreeCameroon

Happy Women's Day 2023

Produced for the #defyhatenow #PeaceJam held every 18th of June, in line with the International Day of Countering Hate Speech.

Peacejam Song by Heatwaves Cameroon,

Let's Talk is the podcast on South Sudan featuring Achol Jok Mach in conversation with South Sudanese community leaders and citizens.

My name is John Jal Dak, I am a 24 year old South Sudanese Refugee living in Uganda since the  December 2013 conflict, which displaced millions of people to seek refuge in the neighbouring countries to South Sudan. In June 2015, a year after settling in to Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, I founded the Youth Social Advocacy Team (YSAT) together with my fellow refugee youth from different ethnicities. YSAT is an advocacy platform to create awareness, sensitise communities and bridge the gaps between partners supporting refugees and the communities while empowering youth to be agents of positive change, even when outside their home countries. 

At YSAT, we target all youth as our primary beneficiaries in our key focus areas of: youth empowerment; SGBV prevention; education support; sustainable livelihoods; peacebuilding and conflict resolution; and community integrity.

LetsTalk Podcast 03 JohnJalDak

Let's Talk is the new podcast on South Sudan featuring Achol Jok Mach in conversation with South Sudanese community leaders and citizens.

Asunta Adeng Abur is my government name but I prefer to be called Adeng. I am a 26 year old International Relations Major at the United States International University. I am my parents last born of seven children. My educational background consists of an associate degree from Hinds Community College. After graduating I decided to move back to South Sudan where I lived for two years before deciding to go back to school. Once I am done with school, my wish is to come back to South Sudan and serve my people. 

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LetsTalk Podcast 05 Asunta Adeng Abur

Asunta Adeng Abur is my government name but I prefer to be called Adeng. I am a 26 year old International Relation Major at the United States International University. I am my parents last born of seven children. My educational background consist of an associate degree from Hinds Community College. After graduating I decided to move back to South Sudan where I lived for two years before deciding to go back to school. Once I am done with school, my wish is to come back to South Sudan and serve my people.

Identity

Let's Talk is the podcast on South Sudan featuring Achol Jok Mach in conversation with South Sudanese community leaders and citizens.

Ruth Lugor is the deputy director of the Roots Project in South Sudan. The Roots Project brings women together from different tribes of South Sudan and teaches them the skills of craftwork. The Roots Project has become a support system for many women who felt disempowered because they did not have the education qualifications. The project not only teaches women how to do beadwork, but it encourages them to become equal and positive contributors to society using their learned skills.

LetsTalk Podcast 07 Ruth Lugor Roots Project by #defyhatenow is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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LetsTalk Podcast 07 Ruth Lugor Roots Project

#ThinkB4UClick (Think Before You Click) is an awareness campaign that aims at pointing out the dangers of misinformation, fake news and hate speech with a focus on South Sudan. Over a period of one month, we aim to discuss with the public the consequences of hate speech and how it can be mitigated through individual actions that aim at creating safe spaces online and offline for citizens to interact with each other and discuss matters in a fruitful and informed manner.
The campaign has four sub-themes segmented into weekly messages:
1) In week one we will be focusing on checking and verifying the sources of information.
Unlike information found in newspapers or television broadcasts, information available on the internet is not regulated for quality or accuracy; therefore, the responsibility of verification falls on the reader as anyone can publish anything.
2) For week two we will be passing a message about how fast lies travel and how hard it is to retract an untrue statement once it is out there which is concerning, considering how social media has become a dominant force for news distribution.
3) During the third week we will be breaking down the importance of context and why people should read information in its entirety before responding, this is because out of context information has the ability to mislead people.
4) Our final week will focus on how small steps matter and how we can have a positive impact. We need to have more conversations on these issues at home, at school and in the workplace. Each person has an obligation to use Social Media responsibly and utilize the online mechanisms for reporting hate speech and misinformation online. Let us work to have a #HateFreeSouthSudan

Think Before You Click, Short radio drama

Understand The Context of information on Social Media, PSA

Think Before You Click

'I am a child of the world. I belong to no place, no time and yet everyday I live my future.'
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