by SAMSN Admin | Mar 20, 2019 | Harassment, Labour rights, Release, Sri Lanka, Trade Union Rights
Sri Lanka broadcaster Swarnavahini TV fired 15 employees for union activity on March 18. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM), the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) and the Federation of...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 20, 2019 | Harassment, Labour rights, Release, Sri Lanka, Trade Union Rights
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the decision by the administering body of Swarnavahini, EAP Broadcasting Company, to suspend the service of media workers for their involvement in the establishing a media industry trade union. This is a violation of the right...
by SAMSN Admin | Jun 26, 2018 | Freedom of Expression, Meeting, Release, South Asia, Trade Union Rights
Journalists, union leaders and media rights organizations under the umbrella of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), the South East Asian Journalists Unions (SEAJU) and the International Federation of the Journalists (IFJ) convened in Kathmandu from June...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 29, 2018 | Release, Sri Lanka, Trade Union Rights
1980 අංක 31 දරණ ස්වේච්ඡා සමාජ සේවා පනත සංශෝධනය කිරිම සඳහා රජය මේ වන විට ගනිමින් තිබෙන උත්සාහය ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයේ පැවැත්මට එරෙහි ප්රබල අභියෝගයක් බව නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරයේ පිළිගැනිමයි. මෙම නව සංශෝධන යටතේ පුරවැසියන් සතු සංවිධානය විමේ අයිතිය, රැුස්විමේ නිදහස ඇතුළු...
by SAMSN Admin | May 3, 2017 | 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, News, Pakistan, Release, Reports, Reports and Publications, Right to Information, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Trade Union Rights
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) marked World Press Freedom Day 2017 today by releasing “New Fronts, Brave Voices: Press Freedom in South Asia 2016-17”. The 15th edition of the annual report...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 11, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog, Trade Union Rights
Manisha Pande examines the alarming trend of newsgathering being replaced with news aggregation by the desk, and the accompanying job losses especially among reporters. Gautam Sarkar (47) did not know his job was on the chopping block when his editor called him at...
