Media outlets worldwide celebrate February 13 as World Radio Day, which has been announced by UNESCO in 2011. It was then officially adopted by the United Nations General Assembly under its resolution 67/124, issued on January 14, 2013.
Marking this occasion, the Islamic Radios and Television Union congratulates its affiliated media outlets, especially radios, and all their staff members. It also appreciates their efforts, values the strive of their journalists, and urges them to keep up their efforts to achieve their media mission which seeks to build humans on the civilizational, cultural, and developmental levels, turn their lives prosperous, support the causes of the Ummah, and resist oppression and subjection.
This year’s occasion happens to be amid the restrictions on media and journalism, violating the rights of journalists, seeking to restrict the missionary and free media outlets and disrupting conveying the truth, and double standards in the world and the region. The free media is suffering from the siege and political and electronic restriction as the hegemonic countries and giant companies seek to restrict the freedom of media and silence the voice of justice and truth.
Moreover, the unfolding developments on the professional and technical levels impose on the world radios additional challenges regarding the role, mission, and capability to keep presenting their media service amid a global communications revolution that forces radios to shift towards the strategy of digital transformation in functioning and performance.
The IRTVU salutes the public and loyal audience of the radios who are still accessible. It further calls for respecting the audience, their expectations, multiculturalism, and religious pluralism, and addressing their minds, hearts, and intellects for the sake of the sublime humanitarian values of freedom and justice.
The IRTVU affirms its unending support for the missionary media outlets and renews support for world radios that take upon themselves, through the honest and free word, the burden of displaying the causes of the society, people, and their concerns. This applies in particular to the IRTVU-affiliated radios that display pioneer models of exchange and interaction between each other. Such radios played a prominent and major role in keeping up with their societies and countries and expressing them. The IRTVU wishes everybody eternal luck and directness, and many happy returns.
Kindly accept the utmost respect and appreciation
IRTVU Secretary General
Ali Karimian
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