Geneva, November, 2004 :
  Independent media are an essential tool to fight corruption

said journalist Joelle Kuntz, chairwoman of the Media and Society Foundation, commenting Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2004.
The Media and Society Foundation, an independent body run by media professionals, promotes an ISO 9000 quality management system for the media around the world.
“The first media adopting our ISAS BC 9001 standard are established in some of the numerous countries where corruption remains a major obstacle to social development. They realized that a quality standard based on principles universally recognized by professionals helps them playing their full societal role, in spite of outside pressures.”
“Every man has a basic right to access, in his language and culture, to impartial and credible information about the world he lives in, be it at the local, national or global level. It is a basic requirement of democracy.”, concluded Kuntz.

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