The announcement was made from Caracas, coinciding with teleSUR’s 20th anniversary.

On Thursday, more than 220 communicators, journalists, researchers, and influencers from 50 countries participated in the “Voices of the New World” Forum.

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The event took place in Caracas, Venezuela, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of teleSUR, the news platform founded by the late Commander Hugo Chavez in 2005.

During the forum, participants announced the launch of the “Alliance of Journalists for Communication of the Global South” and issued the following declaration:

The text reads, “From the ‘Voices of the New World’ forum, Foreign Affairs Minister Yvan Gil denounces the kidnapping of Venezuelan migrant children in the United States.”

“People have the right to the truth — to live it, to tell it and to know it. Truth underpins fundamental principles and values for humanity, such as peace and equality. It is with this strength that the Voices of the New World rise to call for an alliance of journalists in service of communication for the Global South.

From Caracas, journalists, communicators, influencers and researchers — committed to the ethical, critical and responsible practice of all efforts to ensure truthful, timely and useful information — reaffirm that one of the great challenges of our time is to achieve the long-awaited goal of building a new global information and communication order.

This new, just and multipolar international order requires journalists and communicators not only to play a key role in the battle of ideas, but also to commit to promoting the narratives of the Global South with a decolonizing perspective — to tell the stories and realities of our peoples. It also demands the creation of spaces for dialogue that help shape a collective worldview of communication.

In advancing the Alliance of Journalists for Communication of the Global South, we declare ourselves in permanent action, committed to opening paths to truth and peace in every corner of the world, and to achieving informational sovereignty and respect for cultural diversity, the right to identity, and the holistic development of people and nations.

Faithful to the vocation that led us to embrace communication and information as a way of life and a public service, we reject lies, manipulation, disinformation and any practice that promotes hatred, discrimination or the stigmatization of our peoples.

Truth is an inalienable right. Nothing justifies lies or manipulation. Respecting and defending the truth, freedom of expression and the sovereign and independent development of our peoples is a duty for all of us engaged in journalism and communication with honesty.

Therefore, as journalists and communicators, we assume the responsibility to report truthfully, dismantle disinformation campaigns, and give voice to historically silenced majorities. We also denounce the hegemony of major media conglomerates and digital platforms that distort the realities of our peoples, erase our struggles and perpetuate colonial narratives.

We advocate for journalistic rigor, creativity, the strength of our cultural identity, trust in the future, the power of collective action, and systematic and continuous training to confront the forces of censorship, manipulation and algorithmic control by global digital platforms.

The Alliance of Journalists for Communication of the Global South is born as an initiative for coordination, content exchange, joint training, the creation of our own narratives, and the defense of journalists who have been attacked or targeted in conventional or next-generation warfare. It is a space to integrate ideas, proposals and actions based on solidarity, mutual respect and strategic cooperation among peoples.

We therefore call on media workers, communicators, researchers, influencers, academics and journalists to join this alliance, to strengthen alternative communication networks and to amplify the collective voice as a tool for truth, unity, diversity and dignity.

In a world increasingly shaped by technological impact on human life, we will promote a sovereign, autonomous and forward-thinking vision for the development of digital tools that foster liberating communication and equitable development for all peoples.

We have the capacity, the judgment and the conviction to build a new communication order. And we embrace the challenge ahead — to communicate a new, possible world, and to tell the stories of the Global South from our hearts, with awareness and with our own voice.”

teleSUR/ JF

Source: teleSUR

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