by SAMSN Admin | May 8, 2015 | Access to Information, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Gender, Human Rights, Impunity, India, Internet Freedom, Labour rights, Maldives, Media Ownership, Media Rights Violations, Nepal, Pakistan, Release, Reports, Sri Lanka, Trade Union Rights
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) today released The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15. The 13th annual report on press freedom in the region explores the frontlines shaping and...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, Reports and Publications, Sri Lanka
The Northern Province, one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province between 1988 and 2006. The North Eastern province was a theatre of war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, India, Reports and Publications
The Indian-administered Kashmir Valley has been reeling under trouble for almost three decades. In late 1989, the armed rebellion that broke out has consumed thousands of human lives so far. Over the past 25 years, media in Jammu and Kashmir has walked on a razor’s...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, Reports and Publications
Formerly the North West Frontier Province, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) is the third largest of Pakistan’s four provinces in terms of its population and economy and has its own provincial government and independent provincial assembly. The Federally Administered Tribal...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2015 | Feature, Freedom of Expression, Pakistan, Reports and Publications
Over the last two decades independent journalism has been difficult in most parts of Pakistan but reporting from Balochistan has been particularly challenging due to multiple threats from various quarters – Baloch nationalists and separatists as well as security and...
by SAMSN Admin | Apr 30, 2015 | Censorship, Freedom of Expression, Maldives, Media Ownership, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) condemns the Maldivian government’s moves to take control of the national public broadcaster on April 29 as an attack on the democracy’s press freedom. On...
