by SAMSN Admin | Nov 4, 2016 | India, Media Regulations, Media Rights Violations, Release
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU), the premier and most representative organisation of working journalists in the country, strongly condemned the decision of the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to ‘ban’ NDTV India for one day on 9 November. The...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 2, 2016 | Impunity, India, Release
Thousands of journalists across the country on Wednesday observed ‘International Day against Impunity on crimes against Journalists’ by observing two minutes silence to commemorate the memory of the journalists killed on the line of duty following the call given by...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 2, 2016 | Impunity, India, Pakistan, Release
The South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN), together with the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), today issued a stern call to governments in the region to make greater efforts to address toxic levels of impunity that continue to blight journalism and...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 28, 2016 | India, Release, Trade Union Rights
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the National Union of Journalists (India) in welcoming the historic ruling by the Supreme Court of India that the principle of equal pay for equal work applies for every employee regardless of the...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Gender, India, Release, Trade Union Rights
The National Union of Journalists (India), NUJ (I), hails the Hon’ble SC verdict on equal pay for equal work as a historic one. The court has unequivocally rejected arguments of employers for lower pay to contract, temporary workers and slammed the claim that...
by SAMSN Admin | Oct 25, 2016 | Gender, Harassment, Media Rights Violations, Pakistan, Release
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in welcoming the recent decision by the Federal Ombudsperson Against Harassment of Women in the Workplace to prosecute the director of the state-run...
