by SAMSN Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | Attack, Media Rights Violations, Release, Sri Lanka
The Free Media Movement, condemning the attack on journalists by the Navy,including the Navy Commander on the International Human Rights Day (10th December), urges the President to commence a special investigation and take legal actions. The Navy had launched a...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 12, 2016 | India, Media Rights Violations, Release
नेशनल यूनियन ऑफ जर्नलिस्ट्स (इंडिया) के प्रतिनिधिमंल ने देशभर में पत्रकारों पर हमलों के खिलाफ प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी को ज्ञापन सौंपा। ज्ञापन में पत्रकार सुरक्षा कानून, मीडिया आयोग, मीडिया काउंसिल बनाने तथा लघु व मध्यम समाचार पत्र-पत्रिकाओं की समस्याओं पर गौर करने...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 8, 2016 | Impunity, India, Release
In order to draw the attention of the Government of India on growing attacks on mediapersons all over the country during the last one decade and pressing upon its demand for enactment of a Journalists Protection Act, the National Union of Journalists (India) today...
by SAMSN Admin | Dec 1, 2016 | Bangladesh, Impunity, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) welcome the court verdict on November 30 convicting and sentencing nine persons to life in prison for the 2004 murder of journalist Manik Saha. The Khulna...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 30, 2016 | Freedom of Expression, India, Meeting, Resolution
In light of the increasingly brutal attacks on journalists in India, we, journalists of the Asia Pacific, representing journalists’ trade unions and associations of the region, gathered at a meeting of the IFJ in Kathmandu on Nov 24, 2016, call for the...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 30, 2016 | Gender, Meeting, Release, South Asia
“Change has to come from within unions in order to make a real impact in the wider media environment”, said women journalists and activists from Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the...
