Blog posts in total 15
Monday 20 May 2013, 15:37
In this oppressive landscape for free expression across large parts of the world, I found signs of hope while taking part in the UN meeting to mark World Press Freedom Day and in a debate at the Frontline Club in London, on Stamping out Impunity.
Read more about Journalists in danger: signs of a breakthrough?
Tuesday 30 April 2013, 12:51
World Press Freedom Day celebrates its 20th anniversary on Friday 3 May. And the United Nations has decided to make protecting journalists from increasing threats of violence the key theme of this anniversary.
Read more about Europe guilty too as World Press Freedom Day targets growing threats to journalists
Friday 23 November 2012, 17:52
On Friday the United Nations fired the starting gun for a global campaign to reverse the toll of murders and attacks on media workers which has risen alarmingly in recent years.
Read more about Global media to monitor a UN plan to protect journalists from assassination
Monday 1 October 2012, 14:38
Here is some relief for much-battered journalists: after months of uncertainty and sometimes tense diplomatic negotiation, the main human rights body of the United Nations has adopted a resolutions which raises the banner of the particular role of journalists on matters of public interest.
Read more about UN says journalists’ work is ‘in the public interest’
Friday 21 September 2012, 10:34
The United Nations has recognised the growing patterns of violence and legal harassment of journalists as a pressing problem which deprives whole populations of the right to reliable information.
Read more about BBC to host global editors' meeting on life-and-death issues
Wednesday 28 March 2012, 15:26
Two years ago, after some NGOs and media organisations complained about evasion and delay, the United Nations started to focus on the task of improving the safety of journalists. And last week, the first UN plan for effective safeguards against targeted killings and attacks on journalists was put to...
Read more about UN plan to protect journalists opens rifts between nations
Monday 3 October 2011, 15:38
It is high time journalists, media owners and editors stopped being passive in the face of the continued slaughter and silencing of journalists. They should demand protection for their colleagues who face violence and suppression.
That was the surprising message from a recent United Nations meeting aimed...
Read more about UN calls on journalists to help stop the killing of journalists
Thursday 28 April 2011, 18:26
Journalists are by reputation busy people. Hard-bitten, cynical even. But in times like these it's obvious how much everybody owes to their courage and skill, working in war zones like Libya, and in dangerous places - especially for journalists - from Mexico to Russia.
Next Tuesday, 3 May, is World...
Read more about BBC to remember the cost of news in human lives
Monday 21 February 2011, 11:51
The Prime Minister says he feels physically sick about letting some prisoners vote in elections, as the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) insists the UK should. And Parliament has forcefully expressed its opposition to prisoners' votes.
David Cameron is also "appalled" at a UK Supreme Court decision...
Read more about UK media blind with indignation at Strasbourg court
Monday 26 July 2010, 15:52
Read more about Who cares about human rights when it's hard to get the story?
Friday 30 April 2010, 18:11
Read more about A day to remember journalists killed for their work
Friday 23 April 2010, 13:33
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Tuesday 26 January 2010, 16:20
A kind of loya jirga of the British media tribe (or tribes) just took place: the Oxford Media Convention.
The young bloods - Google, the Tweeters and believers in 'street-level solutions' - are brazenly celebrating the birth of an era. But the tribal chiefs and elders, most of them, sounded rather...
Read more about The SOS for watchdog journalism in the UK and USA
Monday 14 December 2009, 13:00
A leading Dutch newspaper editor told journalists from across Europe that his government "is trying to intimidate journalists to keep us quiet". Freedom of the press is under threat every day, he thundered. He accused the Dutch government of erecting barriers to information "thicker than the Berlin Wall...
Monday 23 November 2009, 12:25
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