The IFJ is to launch a 3-week campaign to expose the staggering levels of impunity for crimes against journalists and the lack of international action to combat the rising tide of threats and abuse faced by journalists worldwide. The campaign will kick-off on 2 November marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against…
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Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. (Quai d’Orsay/Frédéric de La Mure ) VIENNA, 31 October 2019 – The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Harlem Désir, stressed today the need to protect journalists and prosecute those responsible for crimes committed against them, on the occasion of the upcoming International Day to…
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Transparency Germany, the PEN Centre Germany, Reports without Borders Germany and Amnesty International Germany call for greater space and security for civil society Frankfurt am Main – Transparency International Germany, the PEN Centre Germany, Reporters Without Borders Germany and Amnesty International Germany today called on the German Federal Government to work at the national and…
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Information in the era of fake news, cyber terrorism as a new global danger, the Internet and social networks as a tool of terrorists are among the topics to be discussed by experts and journalists at an international conference in Limassol, Cyprus, on 21-24 October. The annual International conference “The role of media in countering…
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On 30 July, about a dozen men dressed in T-shirts with the inscription “Tradition and Order” violently entered the press center of the Ukrinform news agency in Kiev, Ukraine, during a press conference of parliamentary candidates. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its member National Union of Journalists of Ukrain (NUJU) in condemning the…
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