Media Rights Agenda (MRA)

The Open Government Partnership is an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. A joint letter to the OGP highlights civil society’s concerns about state surveillance practices.

On 21 November, police in Abuja disrupted a peaceful walk against impunity, spraying tear gas, tearing banners, and chasing participants out of the Park.

Rommy Mom will be profiled in IFEX’s International Day to End Impunity campaign. Mom is being threatened for asking questions about how much Benue state received from the Federal Government and other sources as support to flood victims in 2012

Over 60 organisations signed a joint appeal to Moroccan authorities to free editor Ali Anouzla, jailed on 17 September for posting a link to an Al-Qaeda video on his news website alongside an article critical of the video.

The Kogi State House of Assembly has summoned a publisher and two human rights activists to appear before it on August 28, 2013 to answer questions over an article published in a magazine on allowances for constituency projects.

Over 150 IFEX members and partners of ARTICLE 19 appealed to US President Obama to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden, update the Whistleblower Protection Act and pass a media shield law.

People are encouraged to join around 200 organisations supporting the adoption of 13 basic principles applying existing human rights law to modern digital surveillance.

IFEX members issued a joint call for amendments to a deeply-flawed draft media law in Somalia before it goes to parliament for approval in August.