A new advisory report published today by the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom chaired by Lord Neuberger and Amal Clooney finds that journalists face unprecedented risks to their safety and makes a number of key recommendations to States, including the introduction of an emergency visa for journalists at risk.
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The Centre for Freedom of the Media welcomes and endorses the Report being published today the independent High-Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom on Providing Safe Refuge to Journalists at Risk. The Centre fully supports the Panel’s key message to State authorities that they must take proactive and effective actions to implement the Recommendations set out in the Report to be in compliance with their legal and political obligations.
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On 10 November the Office of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media published the third edition of its Safety of Journalists Guidebook, authored by William Horsley, Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) co-founder and International Director.
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Can Yeginsu, a member of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom set up last year ,says “concrete changes” in the actions of states are needed to reverse a marked decline in media freedom standards worldwide. The Panel’s core goal is to bring about a higher level of compliance by state authorities with the framework of international legal protections for journalists The leading human rights lawyer spoke at an online meeting with international journalists hosted by William Horsley, the UK Chairman of the Association of European Journalists and International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM).
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Professor Jackie Harrison, Chair of the Centre for the Freedom of the Media and UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity has been conferred the prestigious award of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences alongside University of Sheffield, Faculty of Social Sciences colleagues, Damian Hodgson (Management School) and Kate Reed (Sociological Studies).
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