Journalists & Media Staff Killed in 2014
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today published its full report on journalists and media staff killed last year in targeted killings, cross fire incidents as well as work-related accidents. The 24th IFJ annual report calls for a united front to...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: February 2015
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network(SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on March 16, 2015, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know what you are doing; to seek solidarity and support...
Vale AINEF President Subodh Bose
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply saddened by the death of Subodh Bose, the president of IFJ affiliate All India Newspaper Employees Federation (AINEF), in Kolkata, India on Friday, February 13, 2015. The IFJ joins the AINEF in expressing...
Indian editor arrested for republishing Charlie Hebdo cartoon
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) and the Brihanmumbai Union of Journalists (BUJ) in condemning the arrest of Shirin Dalvi, the editor of an Urdu newspaper in Mumbai, India on January 29, 2015 for reprinting a...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: January, 2015
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network(SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on February 16, 2015, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know what you are doing; to seek solidarity and support...
#JeSuisCharlie: Asia-Pacific media unions unite in condemning brutal attack in France
Media unions and press freedom groups from across the Asia-Pacific today joined the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in a regional show of solidarity and joint condemnation of the horrific attack that took the lives of 10 media workers in France this...
Pakistan looms large in violence which killed 118 journalists and media staff in 2014: IFJ
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said that 118 journalists and media staff were killed in work-related targeted or cross fire incidents in 2014, an increase of 13 killings from last year. 17 more died in road and natural disasters accidents...
Indian journalists’ movement restricted in government building
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) expresses concern over the decision by the West Bengal state government in India to restrict journalists’ movement in Nabanna, the state’s main administrative building. The West Bengal Police passed an order last week...
Journalist bashed to death in Andra Pradesh
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and it’s affiliate the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) condemn the brutal murder of a senior journalist in Guntur of Andra Pradesh, in south eastern India on early hours of Wednesday, November 26. MVN Shankar, 53, a...
Indian journalist killed in car accident
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is saddened by the death of Shivam Bhatt, a journalist with India’s Zee News TV in a car accident on November 20 in Barwala, Haryana, India. According to reports, the 24-year-old reporter died when the vehicle he was...
OTHER NEWS
NUJ(I) appeals PM for curbing attacks on mediapersons
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...
IFJ Resolution: India: We stand with journalists in Kashmir
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 urgently for peace in Kashmir, India. We strongly condemn the attacks and restrictions on...
IFJ Resolution: India: Improve safety and security of media workers
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 government to...
Defending the messenger
Journalists in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh have been under siege for the past several decades while living and reporting on the conflict between the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) and the Government of India, with the vast majority of adivasi...
Sixth journalist killed in India as deadly year continues
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the National Union of Journalists (India) (NUJ) and the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) in deploring the killing of yet another journalist in Bihar six months after the killing of Rajdeo Ranjan,...
IJU condemns murder of journalist in Bihar
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) strongly condemned the murder of Dharmendra Singh, Correspondent of Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar at Rohtas in Bihar on Saturday morning, 12 November. He was shot dead by three motorcycle borne unidentified assailants while he was...
NUJ(I) condemns brutal murder of journalist Dharmendra Singh
Condemning horrific murder of Journalist Dharmendra Singh, Sasaram, Bihar, National Union of Journalists (India) demanded immediate judicial probe of the incident. "It is high time that the Government should come forward with Journalist Protection Act and family...