Global: Communication rights and wrongs

In this article posted on the SciDev.Net website, author Nalaka Gunawardene discusses communication rights, and expresses questions and concerns about when media and communication may result in violations of privacy and other "communication wrongs." According to the article, it is not only the media that can violate others' communication rights. When development agencies and 'pro-poor' activists presume that the impoverished just need information about survival or sustenance, the latter's communication rights are not respected.