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The Council of Europe has launched a continent-wide Campaign for the Safety of Journalists

Gemma Horton Oct 12, 2023 International Director's Column 0

CFOM’s international director William Horsley attended last week’s conference in Riga, Latvia, where plans for the ambitious campaign were unveiled at a conference entitled The Pen is mightier than the sword? Meeting today’s challenges to freedom of expression and the...

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‘To protect the truth we must protect the truth-tellers’: The Commonwealth and media freedom

Gemma Horton Sep 18, 2023 International Director's Column 0

Recently, Commonwealth Law Ministers unanimously adopted the Commonwealth Media Principles on Freedom of Expression and the Role of the Media in Good Governance. How will these principles expand upon the Commonwealth Charter’s Article 5 on Freedom of...

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Europe’s Media Freedom project aims to reverse “democratic backsliding”

Gemma Horton Jul 26, 2023 International Director's Column 0

Europe’s Media Freedom project aims to reverse “democratic backsliding”July 26, 2023 | International Director's ColumnCouncil of Europe multi-stakeholder campaign to start in October William Horsley, CFOM International Director Eight years ago the Council of Europe...

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The crisis for free expression calls for radical responses, so here are four of them

Gemma Horton Jun 1, 2023 International Director's Column 0

CFOM International Director William Horsley reports on a meeting to imagine routes to a safe environment for journalists.The 2023 RSF Press Freedom Index highlights aggressive behaviour by governments towards journalists and the rapid growth of the “disinformation...

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Can the Commonwealth survive without free speech?

Gemma Horton Apr 26, 2023 International Director's Column 0

William Horsley,  CFOM International Director,  26 April 2023“Is it time to scrap the Commonwealth?” The question was met with laughter when asked at a gathering of Commonwealth insiders last January in Windsor Great Park, but it was meant seriously.  Joel Kibazo, a...

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A landmark decision for press freedom across the Commonwealth

Gemma Horton Dec 9, 2022 International Director's Column 0

By William Horsley, CFOM International Director and Executive Committee member of the Commonwealth Journalists Association 12 December 2022 A meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Mauritius ended on November 25 with agreement (see para. 24) to adopt a set of...

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UN conference hears lawyer’s call for the Commonwealth to “give teeth” to protections for journalists at risk

Gemma Horton Nov 8, 2022 International Director's Column News 0

By William Horsley, International Director of CFOM, University of Sheffield The Role of Commonwealth Governments in Journalism Safety Years of inaction by Commonwealth governments in response to violent assaults and excessive restraints on the work of independent...

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Hungary’s “Catch 22” media dilemma

Sara Torsner Jul 22, 2022 International Director's Column 0

By William Horsley, CFOM International Director Zsombor György has a Catch 22 problem. The editor in chief of Magyar Hang, Hungarian Voice, has declared that the newspaper will go out of business this summer unless it finds a fresh injection of income. In Hungary’s...

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