Association of Caribbean Media Workers

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Malaysian lawyers hold a protest calling for the repeal of the Sedition Act in Kuala Lumpur, 16 October 2014, REUTERS/Olivia Harris

Groups call for end to crackdown on free expression

Concerns include the use of Malaysia’s Sedition Act to suppress legitimate criticism of government and courts.

Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, head of the Ministry of the Interior, which approved the creation of the new institution, REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez

What is the purpose of Guatemala’s anti media terrorism foundation?

In the midst of few guarantees for the safety of journalists in Guatemala, authorities are endorsing the creation of a body that may further increase the vulnerability of freedom of the press.

Link to: Fears in Trinidad and Tobago of campaign to discredit work of women journalists

Fears in Trinidad and Tobago of campaign to discredit work of women journalists

The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) condemns continued unlawful and defamatory social media attacks on women journalists in Trinidad and Tobago.

Times of Swaziland/MISA-Swaziland

Swaziland doesn’t want you to care about these government critics. Here’s why you should.

They don’t write for The New York Times or The Daily Mail. And the Swazi government is counting on just that to keep Bheki Makhubu and Thulani Maseko in jail for criticizing the judiciary.

Uruguay's President José Mujica, AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico

Groups hope Uruguay’s media law will become model in Latin America

The adoption of the Law of Audiovisual Communication Services promotes democratisation of the media and the effective exercise of freedom of expression in Uruguay.

REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

On Right to Know Day, calls for UN to include free expression rights in development goals

More than 100 civil society organisations ask the UN Secretary General to recognise the importance of free expression rights in the sustainable development goals.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, members of the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, met in New York in May 2013 to discuss the Post-2015 Development Agenda, REUTERS/Richard Drew/Pool

Lyon Declaration: Global call to include access to information in UN development agenda

IFEX members and partners from around the world urge the UN to include access to information in the Agenda for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

Journalists protest the imprisonment of Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed in Egypt, outside Al Jazeera offices in Sanaa, Yemen on 25 June 2014. , REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Demand the release of recently sentenced Al Jazeera staff

More than 100 groups and individuals worldwide call on Egyptian President el-Sisi to remove the unjust sentencing of three Al Jazeera journalists.