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IFEX: Mexican Journalist Slain
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 2:17 pm | IFEX
A special government committee designed to combat crimes against Mexican journalists and news media has been disbanded, reports the Inter American Press Association (IAPA). Underscoring the urgent need for such a panel is the murder of yet another journalist ... More >>
Uganda: Crackdown On Radio Journalists
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 1:44 pm | IFEX
A spasm of violence shook Uganda last week in a power struggle between the government and the Buganda kingdom. State-run Uganda Broadcasting Council shut down radio stations on 11 September, ordering a halt to political debate and commentary on clashes in ... More >>
Enhance The Debate On Open Access
Tuesday, 26 May 2009, 5:02 pm | IFEX
(IPA/IFEX) - Geneva/The Hague, 20 May 2009 - A joint statement released today by the International Publishers Association, the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical (STM) Publishers, and the International Federation of Library ... More >>
Freedom Of Expression On World Press Freedom Day
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 12:13 pm | IFEX
(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - 2 May 2009 - As the global media and human rights communities mark the event of World Press Freedom Day, ARTICLE 19 calls attention to the ongoing need to ensure that freedom of expression is safeguarded and enhanced in all parts ... More >>
Press Freedom Declines In Every Region
Saturday, 2 May 2009, 1:59 pm | IFEX
(Freedom House/IFEX) - Washington - May 1, 2009 - Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according ... More >>
"Hypocrisy And Neglect" Over Press Freedom
Friday, 1 May 2009, 5:21 pm | IFEX
(IFJ/IFEX) - 29 April 2009 - Governments guilty of "censorship, hypocrisy, and neglect" are putting press freedom to the sword world-wide, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in its statement to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3rd. More >>
CPJ Names 10 Worst Countries To Be A Blogger
Friday, 1 May 2009, 5:20 pm | IFEX
CPJ names the worst online oppressors. Burma leads the dishonor roll. Booming online cultures in many Asian and Middle Eastern nations have led to aggressive government repression. More >>
Liu Xiaobo To Receive Top Pen Honor
Thursday, 23 April 2009, 3:46 pm | IFEX
Renowned Literary Critic and Activist is One of Seven PEN Writers in Jail in China More >>
Major Setback For Freedom Of Expression
Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 11:48 am | IFEX
ARTICLE 19 and the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) are extremely concerned by the recent decision of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands to withdraw from the UN anti-racism conference, otherwise known as ... More >>
Journalist Sakit Zahidov, Editor Asif Merzili Free
Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 12:34 pm | IFEX
(IRFS/IFEX) - On 9 April 2009, after two years and nine months in prison, "Azadlig" newspaper satirist and journalist Sakit Zahidov was granted an amnesty and released. More >>
Armed Men Disrupt Karachi Cultural Festival
Tuesday, 14 April 2009, 12:56 pm | IFEX
(PPF/IFEX) - Armed assailants stormed the Arts Council in the Pakistani capital, Karachi, on 8 April 2009, ransacking the Shanakht Cultural Festival and accusing organisers of "political blasphemy". The event was organised by the Citizens Archives ... More >>
Cuba, China, Tunisia, Iran Violators Of Rreedom
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 1:15 pm | IFEX
China's sophisticated efforts to control the Internet - most recently using regulations that demand video-sharing websites like YouTube to increase censorship - earned it a "not free" rating in Freedom House's new report on Internet and mobile phone freedom. More >>
Unpunished Murder Of Brazilian Journalist
Friday, 27 March 2009, 11:37 am | IFEX
MIAMI, Florida (March 24, 2009) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on newspaper readers throughout the Americas to add their signatures to an open letter to be sent to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, urging him ... More >>
Defamation Of Religions Campaign
Thursday, 26 March 2009, 12:20 pm | IFEX
More than 180 rights organisations worldwide, including 27 IFEX members, have banded together to oppose a "defamation of religions" campaign at the UN mounted by Islamic states that would make criticising religion a crime in UN resolutions, declarations ... More >>
Nominations Needed For Journalism Awards
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 12:49 pm | IFEX
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is calling for nominations for its 2009 Knight International Journalism Awards. The Awards recognise exceptional international journalists who have demonstrated a strong commitment to freedom of expression despite ... More >>
Media Groups Condemn Draft Broadcast Law
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 12:47 pm | IFEX
The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), the Media Workers Association of Dominica (MWAD) and ARTICLE 19 joined forces last week to highlight the danger Dominica's draft broadcast law poses to independent media and to recommend changes to the law. More >>
Two TV News Channels Blocked During Protests
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 12:46 pm | IFEX
The government ordered cable operators to block transmission signals for two of Pakistan's largest independent TV news broadcasters, "Geo News" and "Aaj TV", last Friday during protests, allege the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) and the Committee to Protect ... More >>
20 Years For "Blasphemous" Student Journalist
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 12:45 pm | IFEX
Afghanistan's Supreme Court has upheld a 20-year sentence for Parwez Kambakhsh, a student and part-time journalist who was charged with blasphemy after he emailed friends an article that critically analysed the portrayal of women in the Quran, ... More >>
Give Journalists In Americas The Freedom To Write
Thursday, 26 February 2009, 12:28 pm | IFEX
Lydia Cacho, the famous Mexican author and investigative journalist, has been the target of death threats, sabotage, defamation suits and police harassment because of her work uncovering prostitution and child pornography networks in Mexico. But ... More >>
IFEX Communiqué Vol 18 No 07
Thursday, 19 February 2009, 1:28 pm | IFEX
REGIONAL NEWS: 2. Mexico: Another Journalist Killed; Government Not Doing Enough to Protect Media, Say IFEX Members 3. Paraguay: Community Radio Director Gunned Down 4. China: Government to Blacklist "Fake" Journalists 5. United Kingdom: ... More >>
