Abuja Declaration on Global Financing for Media and Information Literacy: An imperative to fight against disinformation and build trust

On the 11th anniversary of Global MIL Week, stakeholders unwaveringly reaffirmed the urgency to advancing global financing for MIL development to strengthen people’s access to media and information literacy competencies, thereby to fight against disinformation and build trust.

Preamble

Welcoming the 2020 Seoul Declaration on Media and Information Literacy for Everyone and by Everyone: A Defense against Disinfodemics;

Learning from the COVID-19 crisis and the parallel misinformation and disinformation crisis, that Media and Information Literacy can build people’s resilience;

Emphasizing Media and Information Literacy for public good on which consensus was reached in Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2021 celebrations hosted by South Africa...