International Freedom of Expression Exchange: The global network for free expression
1 April 2009
Volume 18 - 2009 Issue 13 (1 Apr.)
International / Awards and other opportunities
SEEMO CALLS FOR ENTRIES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS PHOTO AWARD
The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is seeking entries for its annual Human Rights Photo Award, as part of the 6th annual BETA Photograph of the Year competition.International
CANADIAN RESEARCHERS EXPOSE GLOBAL SPY NETWORK
A vast electronic spying network, based mainly in China, has penetrated public and private offices around the world, including the Dalai Lama's, Canadian researchers have uncovered.International
SOUTH ASIA WORST REGION FOR CAPTURING JOURNALISTS' KILLERS, SAYS CPJ'S IMPUNITY INDEX
Journalists face "particularly severe risks" in South Asia, where members of the media are regularly murdered and authorities fail to capture the killers, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says in their annual Impunity Index.United States
DEMAND RELEASE OF TWO WOMEN JOURNALISTS DETAINED IN NORTH KOREA
Two U.S. women journalists who were reporting on the fate of North Korean women being smuggled and sold to China have been detained in North Korea for more than a week on charges of entering the country illegally and carrying out "hostile" activities. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) have launched a petition calling for their release.Colombia
AUTHORITIES UNCOVER PLOT TO KILL IAPA PRESIDENT
Colombian authorities were able to foil an attempt by a left-wing guerrilla group to kill a journalist who is the president of IFEX member the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and a founder of the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP), IFEX's member in Colombia.Egypt
LOCAL MEMBERS MARK CENTENARY OF PRESS FREEDOM DEMONSTRATIONS
About 100 journalists, human rights activists and media personnel gathered in Cairo this week to mark the "100 Anniversary of Press Freedom Demonstrations in Egypt 1909", an event organised by IFEX members in Egypt the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR). It was held in cooperation with the Arab Affairs Committee of the Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS).Pakistan
SENIOR REPORTER GUNNED DOWN
Pakistani authorities should not allow the murder last week of a veteran Pakistani reporter in Rawalpindi to go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, say the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).International
UN COUNCIL PASSES DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS RESOLUTION
The United Nations Human Rights Council approved a resolution on defamation of religion last week, much to the dismay of IFEX members who say the measure is a serious blow to the right to freedom of expression.Philippines
SEAPA MISSION CONFIRMS PERVASIVE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY
On 24 March 2005, Marlene Garcia-Esperat, a whistleblower-turned-journalist who exposed corruption in the government's Department of Agriculture, was gunned down in her home in full view of her children in Tacurong City, in southern Philippines. Her case was once heralded by IFEX members as the first time since 1986 that the people ultimately responsible for the murder of a journalist were identified. Now it has become symbolic of the struggle against impunity: the masterminds have continued to elude justice.
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