World Press Freedom Day

On World Press Freedom Day 2012, the Centre for Independent Journalism renews its call to the people to reclaim their right to a media that can play its role of bearing witness and informing society.

MRA has uploaded five videos in which the group talks briefly on the significance of World Press Freedom Day in Nigeria.

SEEMO noted that a number of journalists’ murders remain unsolved and the media face ongoing physical and verbal threats, especially during pre-election periods.

“If we value press freedom, we all need to take a closer look at the state of these rights here at home. When we look beyond the words of the Charter to the daily reality for working journalists, we see a gradual erosion of freedoms. And our government is a contributing factor, ” said CJFE.

Jailings, smear campaigns, trumped-up charges against journalists and unsolved murders: the free expression situation in Azerbaijan

The anthology, part of IFEX-TMG’s ongoing project, brings together journalistic articles, commentaries, prose and verse in Arabic written both during the Ben Ali regime and since its fall, and is illustrated with images of the revolution.

Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie issued a statement to commemorate the day.

The new work includes a literary anthology edited by the president of PEN Tunisia Naziha Rejiba, a training manual on online advocacy, a workshop for cartoonists, and a national newspaper and billboard campaign championing free expression rights as Tunisia’s Constituent Assembly continues to negotiate a new national constitution.

IFJ continues to receive complaints from media all over China that they have been subjected to various kinds of pressure that prevent them from carrying out their duties.

The site calls attention to three major issues: the rampant killing of journalists which demonstrate the prevailing culture of impunity in the Philippines; the use of criminal libel to stifle dissent; and the failure to pass a freedom of information law.

SEAPA marks World Press Freedom Day with the release of 10 country reports on the situation of press freedom in the region.

AJI stated that the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2012 has to be the drive for law enforcers to end the practice of impunity that benefits journalists’ killers.

The workshop included theoretical, technical, and practical training on blogging, social networks, photography, and filming in support 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.

A minute of silence before a WPFD Editors Forum will honour the late Yehiura Hriehwazi, one of Papua New Guinea’s leading journalists, who died suddenly on 8 January 2012.

World Press Freedom Day 2012 comes at a time of momentous challenges for journalism in South Asia, says the report published by IFJ in collaboration with a range of partners in the region.