Articles by World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
Twenty-four press freedom groups and human rights organisations call on the government to implement reforms
IFEX members joined other human rights organisations in denouncing the deterioration of press freedom under the new interim government.
TMG welcomes release of journalist Ben Brik but condemns policy of punishing critical journalists
Members of the TMG, which is on mission in Tunisia this week, also condemned the charges against journalist Fahem Boukadous as a political manoeuvre whose true aim is to silence criticism of Tunisian authorities.
World’s press rallies around journalists in exile on World Press Freedom Day
WAN-IFRA is dedicating its 2010 World Press Freedom Day campaign to “Journalists in Exile”.
TMG calls for end to harassment of journalists in Tunisia
The Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG), a coalition of 20 IFEX members, has received reports of further harassment of Tunisian journalists working for independent media.
More than 3,500 petition government to release journalists, writers
Petitioners’ names were collected through the “Our Society Will Be a Free Society” campaign, a coalition project dedicated to winning the freedom of all journalists jailed in Iran.
Press organisations condemn threat to independent reporting
Proposed legislation would significantly reduce the protection afforded to journalists’ sources.
UN Human Rights Council: 40 IFEX members reject “defamation of religions” resolutions
In a joint submission to the UN Human Rights Council, 40 IFEX members protest resolutions on defamation of religion and the proposed elaboration of complementary standards to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Thirty-one IFEX members and 22 other organisations call on UN High Commissioner to support human rights activists, journalists and bloggers
Rights groups appeal to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take up cases of free expression violations targetting Bahraini journalists, bloggers and human rights defenders in an upcoming visit to the country.