IFJ, Sri Lankan media rights organizations object reactivation of Press Council
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliates the Sri Lankan Working Journalist Association (SLWJA) and the Free Media Movement (FMM), along with the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), in strongly objecting and condemning the Sri Lankan...
Digital Campaign Skills Workshop: Colombo, Sri Lanka
The inaugural DCS Workshop was held for Sri Lankan journalist at the Sri Lanka Press Institute, Colombo on July 23-24. The workshop also marked the return of the IFJ to Sri Lanka following 18 months away from the country. The workshop was participated by 20...
IFJ, UNESCO and UNWomen release report on women journalists across the Asia Pacific
Today, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), UNESCO and UNWomen, released Inside the News: Challenges and Aspirations for Women Journalists in Asia and the Pacific. The report documents the issue of Gender Equity in the Media Industry throughout the...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: June, 2015
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on July 15, 2015, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know what you are doing; to seek solidarity and support...
FMM, SLWJA call for better working conditions for Sri Lanka’s journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliates the Free Media Movement (FMM) and the Sri Lankan Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) have called for more dialogue and discussion on improving working conditions for journalists in Sri Lanka if...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: May 2015
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on June 15, 2015, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know what you are doing; to seek solidarity and support...
Sri Lanka: The long road home for the exiled
On April 30, 2015, three Sri Lankan journalists and human rights defenders (HRDs) Shantha, Jayampathi and Kumuduni returned home after several years in exile in Nepal and short periods in India and the Maldives[1]. All three had been recognized as refugees by UNHCR in...
The Freedom Frontier: South Asia Press Freedom Report 2014-15 launched
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) today released The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15. The 13th annual report on press freedom in the region explores the frontlines shaping and...
Northern and Eastern Provinces, Sri Lanka: Legacy of Conflict
The Northern Province, one of the nine provinces of Sri Lanka, was temporarily merged with the Eastern Province between 1988 and 2006. The North Eastern province was a theatre of war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
Sri Lanka’s 100 day reform period bows out with weak results for media freedom
Today officially marks the end of an ambitious 100-day reform period announced by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena shortly after snatching a surprise victory over former leader Mahinda Rajapaksa in the country’s Jan. 8 presidential vote. Rajapaksa was once...
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President Sirisena urged to expedite probes and end impunity
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...
Sri Lanka’s RTI Law: Will the Government ‘Walk the Talk’?
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...
Army personnel arrested for abducting journalist in Sri Lanka
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins the Free Media Movement (FMM), Sri Lanka, in lauding the Sri Lanka Police for arresting an army officer and two soldiers over the 2008 abduction of and assault on a prominent journalist. The Crime Investigation...
තරාතිරම නොතකා අපරාධකරුවන් නීතිය ඉදිරියට ගෙනැවිත් දඬුවම් කළ යුතුයි.-නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය (2017. 02. 19) බොහෝ කල් ගත වී නමුත් ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මාධ්යවේදී කීත් නොයාර් පැහැර ගෙන ගොස් දැඩි සේ පහර දී අත්හැර දමා යෑම සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැක පිට හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ මේජර් බුලත්වත්ත සහ සැරයන්වරයන් දෙදෙනෙකු අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම ගැන ප්රසාදය පළ කරන නිදහස් මාධ්ය ව්යාපාරය,...
Sri Lankan PM Security Division seizes TV’s drone camera
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) Sri Lanka in condemning the seizing of a drone camera used by the Hiru TV to report on a demonstration in Mirijjawila, Hambantota on January 7. Hiru TV used the drone...
Seizing cameras of Hiru TV is grave violation of rights of journalists
While vehemently condemning the seizing of drone camera of the Hiru TV while reporting the protest against Sri Lanka-China joint venture in Mirijjawila, Hambantota, the Free Media Movement states that it is a grave violation of professional rights of journalists. The...
Remembering Lasantha
Eight years after the murder of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, his colleague Dilrukshi Handunnetti remembers all that he stood for: truth, courage, and justice. Way back in 2007, when I was assigned one of the biggest investigative stories I was ever...