For example, it is no longer illegal to speak Kurdish, radio broadcasts and education in Kurdish are beginning to be allowed, there is no longer martial law and a state of emergency in the South East, following the unilateral truce by the PKK, and the long armed conflict which has lasted 15 years has practically come to an end.

The SOCAM wants to improve communications between the various communities through newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, films, and basically any written, spoken or visual communications tools; provide live broadcasting of news programs on aboriginal issues pertaining to culture, the economy and community life in the language of each of those two nations; involve community radio stations in the business' organizational activities; provide technical support and training to local stations to ensure proper rebroadcasting of the network's programs; launch projects designed to improve communications and relationships betwee ...[+++]n aboriginal peoples, between the two nations and between member communities by using new information technologies and communications; operate a broadcasting network for 14 local member stations; establish cooperative and complementary ties with local community radio stations; organize adequate programming that reflects the Atikamekw and Innu culture; inform the locals of major news events that directly affect them; provide local radio stations and their staff with adequate equipment, tools and communication techniques; implement training programs; provide translation and interpretation services; design a television production centre; develop community access via Internet to new information technologies and communications technologies by implementing multimedia access centres for communities—and I could name 23 or 24 communities in Quebec—; implement communication services and infrastructures to support initiatives pertaining to health, learning and community access to cover social and community activities, a project that was in fact taken over by Industry Canada.

10. Recommends the pursuit of policies which curb fundamentalist influences, foster intercultural openness and exchanges in order to eliminate "ghettos', and offer women facilities as regards training, information and access to new technologies, and the creation and dissemination of publications, information brochures and radio and television programmes; also recommends encouragement and support for the activities of NGOs which promote and defend the rights of women and of women's research, education and training centres at regional ...[+++]and local level;

Member States may impose "must carry" obligations, for the transmission of specified radio and television broadcasts in pursuit of a public service broadcasting remit , on undertakings under their jurisdiction providing electronic communications networks established or subsequently developed for the distribution of radio or television broadcasts to the public.

Member States may impose "must carry" obligations, for the transmission of specified radio and television broadcasts, on undertakings under their jurisdiction providing electronic communications networks established for the distribution of radio or television broadcasts to the public.

Presenting Petitions Pursuant to Standing Order 36, petitions certified correct by the Clerk of Petitions were presented as follows: by Mr. Gouk (West Kootenay Okanagan), one concerning nuclear weapons (No. 361-0471); by Mr. Goldring (Edmonton East), one concerning radio and television programming (No. 361-0472); by Mr. McWhinney (Vancouver Quadra), one concerning nuclear weapons (No. 361-0473), one concerning taxes on books (No. 361-0474) and one concerning Cyprus (No. 361- 0475); by Mr. Ramsay (Crowfoot), two concerning radio and television programming (Nos. 361-0476 and 361-0477); by Mr. Riis (Kamloops), one concerning internatio ...[+++]nal trade (No. 361-0478) and one concerning the Canada Pension Plan (No. 361-0479); by Mr. Provenzano (Sault Ste. Marie), one concerning nudity (No. 361-0480).