{"id":226331,"date":"2026-03-08T01:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-famod-calls-for-inclusion-of-sign-language-in-media-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:25:55","slug":"mozambique-famod-calls-for-inclusion-of-sign-language-in-media-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-famod-calls-for-inclusion-of-sign-language-in-media-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: FAMOD Calls for Inclusion of Sign Language in Media Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican Association of People with Disabilities (FAMOD) has called for the mandatory inclusion of all sign languages in the new mass media laws currently under review in the country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic (AR).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">According to FAMOD chairperson Clodoaldo Castiano, speaking to reporters on Wednesday after participating in a hearing of the Parliamentary Committee on Social Affairs, Gender, Technologies and Social Communication (CASGTCS), audio description and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603060034.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican Association of People with Disabilities (FAMOD) has called for the mandatory inclusion of all sign languages in the new mass media laws currently under review in the country&#8217;s parliament, the Assembly of the Republic (AR). According to FAMOD chairperson Clodoaldo Castiano, speaking to reporters on Wednesday after participating in a hearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6137,53844,14204,9308,5040,4959,4704,682,257,4368,254],"class_list":["post-226331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-famod","tag-inclusion","tag-language","tag-laws","tag-media","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-sign","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}