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Freedom House launches new web-based resource
Sunday, 15 October 2006, 12:13 am | IFEX
Freedom House Launches New Web-Based Resource on Press Freedom Freedom House is proud to announce an expanded section of its website dedicated to press freedom More >>
Members Raise Censorship Fears Following Coup
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 3:15 pm | IFEX
Almost one week after a bloodless military coup in Thailand toppled a government led by controversial Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, free expression groups have raised fears over the uncertain situation facing freedom of expression in the country. More >>
IFEX Communiqué Vol 15 No 37
Wednesday, 20 September 2006, 5:17 pm | IFEX
1. Civil Society Urges More Transparency for IMF, World Bank 2. Turkmenistan: International Outcry Over Journalist's Death 3. Iraq: Three Journalists Killed in a Week; Pulitzer-Winning Photographer Detained 4. Turkey: International PEN Supports Writers Facing Trials ... More >>
IFEX Communiqué 5 September 2006
Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 3:41 pm | IFEX
1. Australia: Anti-Terrorism Laws Threaten to Muzzle Press 2. Bahrain: Rights Groups Criticise Anti-Terrorism Law 3. The Gambia: Media Repression Means Elections Won't be Fair 4. Indonesia: Majority of Journalists Vastly Underpaid: AJI Survey 5. MFWA ... More >>
Lebanon: Press Under Fire During Israeli Offensive
Wednesday, 2 August 2006, 4:45 pm | IFEX
Lebanon: Press Under Fire as Israeli Offensive Continues 2. Russia: Reporter Strangled to Death 3. Pakistan: Officials Promise to Review Journalist Murders 4. Brazil: Two Journalists Killed in One Week 5. Central America: Poor Denied Equal Access to Airwaves: ... More >>
IFEX COMMUNIQUÉ VOL 15 NO 26
Wednesday, 5 July 2006, 9:43 pm | IFEX
The IFEX Communiqué is the weekly newsletter of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of 72 organisations working to defend and promote the right to free expression. IFEX is managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression ... More >>
IFEX COMMUNIQUÉ VOL 15 NO 25
Wednesday, 28 June 2006, 8:47 pm | IFEX
The IFEX Communiqué is the weekly newsletter of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX), a global network of 72 organisations working to defend and promote the right to free expression. IFEX is managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression ... More >>
Golden Pen of Freedom award to Iranian journalist
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 9:54 pm | IFEX
**Updates IFEX alert of 23 November 2005; for further information on the Ganji case, see alerts of 20 March 2006, 10 November, 7 September, 22, 9 and 2 August 2005, and others** More >>
Resolutions passed by WAN at World Newspaper Cong.
Wednesday, 7 June 2006, 9:52 pm | IFEX
(WAN/IFEX) - The following is a series of 6 June 2006 WAN press releases summarising resolutions passed at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Moscow, Russia: More >>
IPI Resolution on Safety of Journalists
Saturday, 3 June 2006, 6:07 pm | IFEX
Meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 29 May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the IPI membership adopted a resolution recognizing that the International Press Institute (IPI), as the co-founder of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), is appalled ... More >>
Concern over "bans on interviewing terrorists"
Wednesday, 17 May 2006, 9:37 pm | IFEX
WPFC expresses concern over UN Secretary General's apparent approval of "bans on interviewing terrorists" More >>
Top Violators of Press Freedom Named
Wednesday, 10 May 2006, 3:31 pm | IFEX
North Korea, Burma, Turkmenistan, Libya, Equatorial Guinea and Belarus have been named the worst offenders of press freedom in the world, according to new reports by Freedom House and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). More >>
Zimbabwe: Trial date set against VOP directors
Friday, 28 April 2006, 11:19 am | IFEX
To: IFEX Autolist (other news of interest) From: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), research@misa.org More >>
Gambia: Newspaper's offices still remain closed
Friday, 28 April 2006, 11:18 am | IFEX
The Banjul-based bi-weekly 'Independent' newspaper raided and forcibly closed down by Gambian authorities last month, still remains closed. On April 25 when the management of the newspaper's offices were about to open up and resume normal business, the ... More >>
Stop Jailing Journalists!
Monday, 10 April 2006, 8:09 pm | IFEX
The numbers are staggering - more than 500 journalists were arrested last year, simply for doing their jobs. Even more extraordinary are the personal stories of endurance, pain and determination of the men and women arrested and imprisoned. Newspapers around ... More >>
World Press Freedom Day: Message from UNESCO
Thursday, 6 April 2006, 11:12 am | IFEX
Message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day More >>
Jailed Algerian & Banned Turkmen To Receive Awards
Saturday, 1 April 2006, 4:17 pm | IFEX
Jailed Algerian Newspaper Publisher, Banned Turkmen Novelist To Receive 2006 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Awards More >>
International PEN Writers in Prison Committee News
Thursday, 23 March 2006, 8:09 pm | IFEX
International PEN Writers in Prison Committee Newsletter No. 28 Date 21 March 2006 Welcome to the Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (WIPC)'s electronic newsletter. This newsletter provides the latest news from the WiPC and PEN Centres ... More >>
Draft on UN Human Rights Council Unsatisfactory
Wednesday, 8 March 2006, 9:35 pm | IFEX
The draft resolution to establish a United Nations Human Rights Council, presented recently by UN General Assembly President Jan Eliasson, is more than a disappointment. Its adoption by the General Assembly will constitute an enormous missed opportunity ... More >>
Nepal: Concern at freedom of expression violations
Thursday, 2 March 2006, 11:49 am | IFEX
More than 500 journalists were detained last year by the royal government for protesting the royal regime and demanding press freedom and freedom of _expression in the country. The authorities imposed strict censorship during the three-month-long state of emergency ... More >>
