The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined an international press freedom and freedom of expression mission to Nepal from January 13 to 17. The mission, organised by IFJ affiliate the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), brought 15 international delegates together in Kathmandu to meet local political and civil society leaders, media organisations, different social groups and representatives of major international governments and donors.
At a press conference held on January 17 in Kathmandu which marked the end of the mission, members welcomed the progress which has been made on reforming the media environment since April 2006, but also noted that much remains to be…
Hopes for Fairfax contributors to negotiate a new model contract diminish as Fairfax continues asking its freelancers to sign the same unequitable contracts despite the Australian largest media group’s former proposal to amend their agreement. The current contracts deprive Fairfax’s contributors from their means of income by granting Fairfax a worldwide exclusive licence to use its contributors’ works “by all means whatsoever“. The contracts also strip away freelancers’ moral rights and prevent most contributors from working for another media group which could be held for a restraint of trade. The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (the Alliance), the union for Australian…
Hopes for Fairfax contributors to negotiate a new model contract diminish as Fairfax continues asking its freelancers to sign the same unequitable contracts despite the Australian largest media group’s former proposal to amend their agreement. The current contracts deprive Fairfax’s contributors from their means of income by granting Fairfax a worldwide exclusive licence to use its contributors’ works “by all means whatsoever“. The contracts also strip away freelancers’ moral rights and prevent most contributors from working for another media group which could be held for a restraint of trade. The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (the Alliance), the…
The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) elected, - through internal elections, journalist Ada Echenique Soto as IFJ Gender Council Representative for Colombia. The organization, affiliated to the IFJ, was established last May 2nd, in the city of Medellín, represents more than 1000 journalists in 18 departments of Colombia. FECOLPER fights for better social and work conditions and currently has 24 regional organizations in Colombia, 12 are lead by women journalists. Three hundred fifty women are part of FECOLPER. “The IFJ Gender Council is a fundamental organ to explore initiatives and help out women journalists, many of them the bread winners in their families, single…
The Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) elected, - through internal elections, journalist Ada Echenique Soto as IFJ Gender Council Representative for Colombia. The organization, affiliated to the IFJ, was established last May 2nd, in the city of Medellín, represents more than 1000 journalists in 18 departments of Colombia. FECOLPER fights for better social and work conditions and currently has 24 regional organizations in Colombia, 12 are lead by women journalists. Three hundred fifty women are part of FECOLPER.
“The IFJ Gender Council is a fundamental organ to explore initiatives and help out women journalists, many of them the bread winners in their families,…
The UK government is launching a consultation to assess the possibility of introducing private copying into the legal system.
The consultation document, introduced by Lord Triesman, the Parliamentary Undersecretary for Intellectual Property, on 9 January proposes to allow consumers to make copies of CD they have already bought as is already the case in many continental European countries such as Germany or France.
However, the UK government rejects the introduction of a financial compensation (such as levies) to private copying.
The consultation also suggests to lessen copyright enforcement for research and education, as well as "caricature, parody or pastiche" purposes.
This move…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) supports its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in demanding the suspension of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA), which has stepped up its efforts to restrict the media since President Pervez Musharraf imposed a six-week state of emergency in early November.
The IFJ and PFUJ say it is impossible for journalists to properly do their work and cover the February 18 elections in a free atmosphere unless the Government revokes amendments to media laws, lifts all bans on broadcasters (including GEO-TV), and desists from pressuring cable operators.
The PFUJ said the…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting of journalist Abdikheyr Mohammed Jama who was attacked on Thursday on his way home from work at Radio Galkayo in Puntland in Northeast Somalia.
“This shooting is part of the wave of attacks against Somali journalists that has wreaked havoc on the media there for months,” said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ Africa office. “Nine journalists died in Somalia last year—eight of those in targeted attacks—and still the threats and violence against our colleagues continue.”
Jama, a presenter and a technician at Radio Galkayo, was attacked after leaving the radio…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on Sri Lanka’s Government and its President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to take urgent action to protect the safety of journalists and uphold the rights of the media to report on issues of public interest.
A serious deterioration in the press freedom environment and safety of journalists in Sri Lanka since January 2, when the Government formally withdrew from a ceasefire with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is of grave concern to the IFJ and its local affiliates, the Free Media Movement (FMM), the Sri Lankan Working Journalists’ Association (SLWJA) and the Federation of Media Employees Trade Union…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has again called on the United States to free Al Jazeera cameraman, Sami al-Haj, who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for five-and-a-half years.
“Sami al-Haj has never been charged with a crime and the US Government has failed to produce any credible evidence against him,” said IFJ General Secretary Aidan White. “He should be released immediately. Holding him like this is inhumane.”
On January 7, 2007, already in poor health due to his inhuman treatment, Sami al-Haj started a hunger strike to protest his detention. Al Jazeera said his health has been deteriorating.
Al-Haj was first…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Kenyan government to end its 10-day ban on live news reports as violence that erupted after President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner of the election subsided.
“This ban has been in place for more than a week as Kenya was rocked by terrible violence,” said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ Africa office. “This ban is not the way to solve the crisis. We call on the Kenyan government to lift this ban immediately and allow journalists to work in total freedom and security.”
On Sunday 30 December the Kenyan government ordered all live radio and television broadcasts suspended indefinitely…
This Action Programme sets down specific measures that ITUC recommends trade unions take to eliminate gender discrimination and promote full participation of women in trade unions. Other support from the ITUC Women’s Committee includes an ITUC charter on the Rights of Working Women, action on International Women’s Day, a Guide on Sexual Harassment, organising, development of campaign kits, migrant workers and diversity (action against racism and xenophobia based on sex, race, colour, religion, national extraction, social origin, age, disability, health and sexual orientation).
Another important aspect of the Action Programme is the…
A few hours after the International Federation of Journalists, IFJ, disclosed as an ‘unlimited tragedy’ the cases of journalists and media workers recorded in 2007, on the first day of 2008, Latin America mourned its first casualty.
José Fernando González, 35, Director of the radio station Radio FM Mega 92.7, was murdered in the city of Santa Bárbara, Trinidad, 150 kilometers northeast of Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Three individuals arrived in a vehicle with no license plates and violently entered the radio station on the afternoon of January 1st. The criminals shot González in the head, back and abdomen.
González began working…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the killing of Abdul Munir, the producer and presenter of Afghanistan Radio Television in Jawzjan (RTA-Jawzjan), while he was travelling from Jawzjan to Mazar-e-Sharif, the capital of Balkh province.
Munir was killed on December 28 at 2.30am when the bus in which he was travelling was attacked by a group of armed people at Temoral, close to Mazar-e-Sharif. The gunmen shelled and shot at the vehicle.
According to the Afghanistan Independent Journalists’ Association (AIJA), Munir died on the way to hospital from severe bleeding as a result of a gunshot wound.
The armed group escaped and a police…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said that violence against journalists in 2007 has reached extreme levels for the third year in succession with 171 confirmed deaths, just below the record set a year ago.
Conflicts in Iraq, Pakistan and Somalia have proved the most dangerous for journalists in a year that has confirmed the high rates of killings in recent years and “tragedy unlimited” for thousands within the global media community.
In 2006 the IFJ confirmed 177 journalists and other media workers killed. At the year's end 2007 proved only slightly less deadly -- with 171 deaths. The figures have been compiled in co-operation with the…
The Automated Content Access Protocol was launched on 29th November with the aim to “revolutionise the creation, dissemination, use and protection of copyright protected content on the world wide web”.
This system provides information about access and use of contents from several publications and links on-line. It aims at defining a process where all the information about any link to an article or a photo will be recognized easily every time it is needed. The main source of information will be recognized and interpreted by search engine “crawlers” that can be taught to the operator. In all, it will allow anybody to define online access and use policies of web…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Pakistan government to review its decision to maintain amendments to Pakistan’s media laws after the lifting of emergency rule and has called for a new dialogue between journalists and authorities to resolve concerns over media accountability. The IFJ is concerned that amendments made to Pakistan’s media laws under emergency rule are considered repressive. They have stayed in place despite the lifting of emergency powers on December 15. The amended laws – the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007, and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Third Amendment)…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Pakistan government to review its decision to maintain amendments to Pakistan’s media laws after the lifting of emergency rule and has called for a new dialogue between journalists and authorities to resolve concerns over media accountability.
The IFJ is concerned that amendments made to Pakistan’s media laws under emergency rule are considered repressive. They have stayed in place despite the lifting of emergency powers on December 15. The amended laws – the Press, Newspapers, News Agencies and Books Registration (Amendment) Ordinance, 2007, and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the arrests of two men suspected of murdering Aklan broadcaster Rolando Ureta on January 3, 2001.
According to the National Union of Journalists, Philippines (NUJP), an IFJ affiliate, Jessie Ticar surrendered to police after learning that fellow suspect Amador Raz was captured on November 26 after a Kalibo court issued a warrant for his arrest.
Ticar disclosed his plan to surrender during an interview on dyKR, Radio Mindanao Network, the same network that Ureta worked for as a program director when he was gunned down on his way home from work almost seven years ago.
A witness identified Ticar and Raz as the two…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) fully supports its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in calling for all political parties in Pakistan to sign a declaration that they will not support any move to pass anti-media laws after national elections on 8 January.The PFUJ’s President, Huma Ali, and Secretary General, Mazhar Abbas, will meet the heads of all political parties to request they sign the declaration regarding their position on amendments to the Registration of Printing and Publication Ordinance, RPPO-2002, and the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, PEMRA-2002. The amendments, which severely restrict media freedom, were made after…
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The International Federation of Journalists protested today over the expulsion of a Moscow-based investigative reporter with a warning that official intolerance of independent journalism is squeezing the life out of press freedom in Russia.
Natalia Morar, a journalist for the monthly independent news magazine New Time was detained at the city's Domodedovo airport on her return from an unrelated press trip to Israel with a group of journalists. She was barred from entry to Moscow where she has lived for a number of years and, without further explanation, was put on a flight to Moldova where she was born.
The action is thought to be official retaliation for her expose of the…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the pressure and attacks on media in The Gambia which have been on the rise despite a three-year international campaign for press freedom, journalist safety and justice in the killing of prominent journalist Deyda Hydara.
“We are deeply upset that President Yahya Jammeh has learned nothing from the killing of Deyda,” said Gabriel Baglo, Director of the IFJ Africa office. “The international mobilization to bring Deyda’s killer to justice unfortunately has not stopped attacks on press freedom.”
In 2007, three journalists, Yaya Dampha, Modou Lamin Jaiteh and Sheriff Bojang Jr, fled the…
An agreement to establish a cooperation alliance between the Colombian Federation of Journalists (FECOLPER) and the National Association of Journalists of Perú (ANP), enabling mutual actions on training and public incidence, was signed by the Presidents of the two organizations, Eduardo Márquez González and Roberto Mejía Alarcón, at ANP headquarters, in Lima, on December 5th.
The agreement emerged as a response to the vital necessity of organized journalists to coordinate actions and solidarity on continental level. On another hand, it is a concrete reply of journalists and media workers to new challenges imposed by vertiginous technological and…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged its member unions worldwide to express their solidarity with the journalists locked out by The Guardian management in Nigeria.
The 800 journalists and other workers took strike action on November 6 after negotiation with The Guardian management over a pay rise and better working conditions broke down. The Guardian online and print editions have not been published since.
Moves to settle the strike following mediation from the Nigerian Labour Congress were first agreed-- and the workers decided to resume work-- then thwarted after management made an about-turn and dismissed the striking journalists on November 16.…
The International Federation of Journalist (IFJ) and its regional group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today reiterated their support for Greek journalists in their fight against government plans to slash the Greek social security system.
“Journalists, like other Greek workers, should not be forced to sacrifice their future benefits,” said Aidan White, EFJ General Secretary. "The government’s plan jeopardizes the financial autonomy of pensioners.”
Following a first strike on November 27, the Greek journalist unions will join again the general strikes tomorrow December 12 to protest the government’s plans to cut back the social security…
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) stands by its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), in demanding that Pakistan’s Government restore the economic, professional and basic human rights of journalists in recognition of International Human Rights Day.
The PFUJ, which has led journalists in a five-week campaign of protests since President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule and brought in anti-media laws on November 3, marked International Human Rights Day today by holding seminars and demonstrations.
Rallies of media workers protested the arrest of 187 journalists in Karachi in late November, the detainment of relatives of the…
