by SAMSN Admin | Mar 14, 2017 | Impunity, Release, Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) Sri Lanka, in expressing its dismay over the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena discouraging investigations into crimes against journalists by the...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 8, 2017 | Gender, Release, South Asia
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Asia-Pacific affiliates today demanded meaningful action against the growth of online harassment of women journalists in the region. Using the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), media unions and...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 8, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog
In this extract from her hard-hitting speech* delivered while accepting the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, Neha Dixit describes how she has been harassed by trolls over the years. After being called ‘antinational’ for months on end, it...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 7, 2017 | Freedom of Expression, Nepal, Release
त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय, रत्नराज्यलक्ष्मी क्याम्पस परिसरमा रहेको टियू एफएम १०७ मेगाहर्जको प्रसारण बन्द भएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । रत्नराज्य क्याम्पसमा स्वतन्त्र विद्यार्थी युनियनको निर्वाचन तोकिएको दिन फागुन २३ गते बिहानदेखि...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Right to Information, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s new Right to Information (RTI) Law, adopted through a rare Parliamentary consensus in June 2016, became fully operational on 3 February 2017. From that day on, the island nation’s 21 million citizens could exercise their legal right to public information...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Maldives, Media Rights Violations, Release, Threat
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Maldives Journalists Association (MJA) strongly condemn the death threat to some journalists and express concern over ‘protective custody’ of journalists on the island of Nilandhoo, Faafu Atoll. The IFJ urges...
