On an initiative by Silvia Chocarro, IFEX Global Advocacy Strategist and CFOM member, members of the JSRN network as well as other academics and civil society organisations, including Committee to Protect Journalists, presented...
Read MoreAt the 2017 UNESCO World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Jakarta on May 1-4, close attention was paid to the need to address threats against the safety of journalists. The issues involved have captured a good deal of attention...
Read MoreBy Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi With recurrent terrorist attacks in Europe, it has sadly become commonplace for political figures to repeat the defiant statement “we won’t let terrorists change our way of life”. In addition to the...
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In advance of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Reporters Without Borders has published its 2017 World Press Freedom Index. In RWB’s assessment, almost across the board, countries known as democracies have fallen back in press freedom terms because of the negative impact of laws, regulations and cases of criminalising journalism: among them the US, the UK, Canada, Poland and Hungary.
Read MoreBy Sara Torsner It is increasingly understood that journalism safety is a multi-layered problem that must be addressed with reference to a wide range of threats and hostile environments facing a very diverse community of...
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