ARTICLE 19

The bodies of three photojournalists were found in a sewage canal in the municipality of Boca del Rio, less than a week after another Veracruz journalist was found dead.

ARTICLE 19’s submission focuses on Zambia’s compliance with its international obligations in respect of freedom of expression.

ARTICLE 19 calls on the government to make use of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event held in Tunis as a golden opportunity to advance the media reform package.

To mark World Press Freedom Day, ARTICLE 19 staff and volunteers blog about the situation of free media, including new media.

In the analysis, ARTICLE 19 emphasises that transparency in campaign financing is indispensible for embedding accountability and integral to the promotion of good governance and democracy.

ARTICLE 19 has submitted an amicus brief to a Bangkok criminal court arguing that the criminal prosecution of Somyot Pruksakasemsuk under the lèse-majesté law violates his right to freedom of expression.

The murder of Regina Martínez is the fifth in 17 months in the state since Javier Duarte assumed the governorship.

While the government received and accepted a number of recommendations related to the right of freedom of expression during the first UPR cycle, none of these have been realised.