1. African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists’ rights
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
2. Celebrating the World's Freedom of the Press Year
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to announce that is organized the annual ethnic press exhibition from Monday May 10th to Sunday May 16, 2010.
3. Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations.
4. Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even in the face of political difficulties.
5. Destruction of Voice of Palestine’s building. Reporters without Borders indignant at that new act of war against Palestinian media
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   
6. Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2010
   Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the editor of the regional weekly Nor Oriente.
7. Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani’s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
8. EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme “Right to Know. Duty to Inform”, in cooperation with other unions and civil society.
9. Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   For the first time since 2002, the press freedom index’s top 20 is not quite so European. Only 15 of the 20 leading countries are from the Old Continent, compared with 18 in 2008.
10. Guardian gagged from reporting parliament
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question is, which minister might answer it, or where the question is to be found. The Guardian is also forbidden from telling its readers why the paper is prevented – for the first time in memory – from reporting parliament. Legal obstacles, which cannot be identified, involve proceedings, which cannot be mentioned, on behalf of a client who must remain secret.
11. Guardian gagged from reporting Parliament
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    
12. Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coup
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
13. How the Trafigura story came to be told
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Gag defeated by press, web users and MPs.
14. Ideale FM radio station closed for refusing to reveal sources
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the 8 April 2009 closure of Idéale FM, a privately-owned radio station in Haiti for allegedly "obstructing justice" by refusing to reveal sources.
15. IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
16. IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
17. IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (IFJ) call for the urgent release of jailed journalists in Gambia, adding their voices to growing global protest at the press freedom crisis in the country.
18. IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo Barrón Laguna, who worked for La Opinión.
19. IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned a court verdict against two Spanish journalists. The two men, who were charged with "revealing secrets", have been condemned to suspended jail terms of a year and nine months.
20. IFJ Condemns "Injustice" as Journalists are Jailed in Morocco
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jailing of two journalists and their boss by a court in Morocco accusing the authorities of "gross injustice."
21. IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks Raid
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest of Valery Smetanin, Editor-in-chief and Galina Yablokova and her son Alexej Yablokov, two founders of the Ivanovo-Press weekly in central Russia.
22. IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in Tunisia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for independent journalism.
23. IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in Morocco
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical journalists.
24. IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
25. IFJ Condemns New Attack on Journalists' Sources in UK
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ireland (NUJ), in condemning the secrecy.
26. IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
27. IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents for Jaffna’s three main newspapers were attacked.
28. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
29. IFJ Endorses Joint Russian-Georgian Demand to End Media Restrictions
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The IFJ has endorsed a joint declaration by the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) and the Independent Association of Georgian Journalists (IAGJ) that demands an end to all restrictions to reporting of the Georgian/ Russian conflict.
30. International Report Demands Radical Reform of Belarus Media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Today, international media and press freedom organisations issued " For Free and Fair Media in Belarus", a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
31. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to prevent news coverage of protests.
32. Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
33. Journalists banned from going to Gaza Strip
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
34. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
35. Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in practice limiting free expression and press rights.
36. Judge dismisses obscenity charges against newspaper editor
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A Lusaka court yesterday acquitted The Post editor Chansa Kabwela of a charge of “distributing obscene material” for sending the vice-president photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park.
37. Lack of transparency on Israel’s expulsion of US journalist
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel’s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma’an.
38. A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous assignments; their stories offer lessons in how to improve security and hold governments accountable. Through interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns, our new database provides analysis by country, year, and type of death. It puts a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
39. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
40. Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
41. New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
42. Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
43. Reporters without Borders works on all fronts
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, is an occasion for Reporters Without Borders to reaffirm the values it defends, the right to inform and the right to access information, without which democracy is impossible.
44. Robert Menard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    International press freedom campaigner Robert Ménard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom along with other members of the staff.
45. Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter’s right to protect his sources
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland’s ruling that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his confidential sources from a 2004 article about a failed terrorism prosecution.
46. The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists’ Rights in Iraq
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The Guardian and its journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad.
47. Trafigura gag attempt unites house in protest
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Efforts by the law firm Carter-Ruck to stop reporting of a Commons question about Trafigura have outraged MPs on all sides.
48. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
49. US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, had his camera confiscated by US marines while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy in the Port-au-Prince.
50. Vienna Declaration calls on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Effective security and respect for freedom of expression and press freedom are not incompatible but, rather, complementary.
51. World Press Freedom Day: Commission launches 2009 Lorenzo Natali Prize for committed journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On World Press Freedom Day the Commission is officially launching the Lorenzo Natali Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded to journalists who have demonstrated a commitment to human rights, democracy and development.

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