by SAMSN Admin | Dec 5, 2016 | SAMSN Blog
Priyanka Borpujari analyses the power imbalance inherent in terms like ‘fixer’ and ‘foreign correspondent’. On December 7, 2016, Angel İstek Alcu, the first woman to receive the Martin Adler Prize will be honoured at the Rory Peck Awards ceremony. Her citation says...
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 | Meeting, Resolution, South Asia
Journalist unions from across the Asia-Pacific resolved to share knowledge, utilize new technologies, and strengthen membership to effectively continue their struggle for press freedom and journalists’ rights, at the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)...
by SAMSN Admin | Nov 30, 2016 | India, Meeting, Resolution
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...
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...
