UNESCO is organizing a town-hall meeting in Kathmandu in partnership with the Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (ACORAB) to celebrate the World Radio Day (WRD) 2015.

Initiated by UNESCO in 2011, WRD encourages major networks and community radio to promote access to information, freedom of expression and gender equality over the airwaves.

The meeting will discuss the role of media, journalists, youth and radio in a democracy.

It will be broadcast live on local FM radio stations in districts with high numbers of attacks against journalists.

The event is being organised as part of the project ‘Increasing the Safety of Journalists’.

75 professional media associations, journalists, media entrepreneurs, academics, representatives of security sector institutions and the judiciary will participate in the meeting.