Public Association “Journalists”

Articles by Public Association “Journalists”

AP Photo/Elena Becatoros, File

International community calls for the release of VICE fixer Mohammed Ismael Rasool

Members of the IFEX network and other concerned organisations demand justice for wrongful imprisonment of Mohammed Ismael Rasaool

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.

People take part in a demonstration for LGBT rights in downtown Rome, 11 June 2011, REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico

Protecting freedom of expression for LGBT people

Making a statement during International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO-T).

A woman picks vegetables near a residential compound under construction in Zhejiang province, China, 17 January 2014, REUTERS/William Hong

Transparency, independent media are vital for global development plan

195 civil society organisations from around the world have called on the UN to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Release Alaa Abd El Fattah and all those unjustly detained in Egypt

Following the criminalisation of peaceful protest in Egypt in November 2013, 57 organisations and individuals release joint statement against arrests of Egyptian bloggers and political activists.

Several dozen journalists suffered serious injuries following a brutal attack by soldiers on 1 December 2013 in Kyiv. , Efrem Lukatskiy

Worldwide condemnation for brutal attacks on over 50 journalists in Ukraine

IFEX members strongly condemn recent attacks on journalists during public demonstrations in Kyiv and call for those responsible to be held accountable.

Journalists protest the harassment of Hong Kong journalists during the APEC summit in Indonesia, outside the Indonesian consulate in Hong Kong., Hong Kong Journalists Association

APEC asked to guarantee access for journalists at regional meetings

Press freedom groups join the Hong Kong Journalists Association to condemn the banning of Hong Kong reporters from covering Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings in Indonesia in early October.