UNESCO Chair Jackie Harrison presents findings and recommendations from the UN Action Plan Academic Consultation at the High Level Conference in Vienna
UNESCO Chair, Professor Jackie Harrison (second right in image), presented the findings and recommendations from the academic consultation that took place on occasion of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue...
UNESCO Chair Jackie Harrison discusses trends in journalism safety at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights
On 26 October, 2022, UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, Professor Jackie Harrison, took part in a panel discussing trends in journalism safety at the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights. The panel consisted of...
CFOM to take part in Safety of Journalists: Protecting media to protect democracy High-level Conference in Vienna
Members from CFOM are set to take part in the Safety of Journalists: Protecting media to protect democracy High Level Conference in Vienna, Austria on the 3-4 November 2022. CFOM was asked to lead the academic consultation on the implementation of the UNPA on the...
CFOM takes part in World Press Freedom Day 2022 in Uruguay
CFOM researchers travelled to Punta del Este, Uruguay to take part in World Press Freedom Day 2022. Members of the CFOM team took part in a panel session at the seventh Academic Conference focused on human rights standards and working conditions of journalists during...
Increasing numbers of physical attacks on European journalists as they report on COVID and other stories
Against the background of reports from the Council of Europe safety of journalists platform showing that physical attacks on journalists more than doubled between 2019 and 2021 in the in the Council of Europe region, UNESCO Chair Coordinator Sara Torsner discuss this...