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Campaigns and Advocacy - Pakistan

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Pakistan

Call for revision of National Human Rights Commission law

President Asif Ali Zardari should not sign the bill until it is revised to authorise investigations of the military and the intelligence agencies for human rights violations, Human Rights Watch said.

United Kingdom / Pakistan

CPJ calls on Cameron to address journalists' security in upcoming meetings

CPJ data show that the country has been ranked the deadliest in the world for journalists for two consecutive years.

Pakistan

IFJ launches mission reports

PFUJ and IFJ deployed four missions to assess the situation on the ground in some of the most dangerous and under-reported provinces in the country - Balochistan, Interior Sindh, the Khyber-FATA region and Punjab.

Pakistan

Investigative journalist Umar Cheema recounts struggle for freedom

"Instead of bowing to tyranny, I decided to stand brave and firm", said this award-winning journalist.

Pakistan

Global coalition of NGOs calls for official withdrawal of censorship plans

A letter by the coalition comes as a follow up to a verbal commitment by the Secretary IT that the plan for a national URL filtering and blocking system, announced earlier this year, has been withdrawn.

Pakistan

Government urged to set up Shahzad judicial commission by 10 June

The president of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) said journalists from throughout the country would assemble in Islamabad and stage a sit-in at the Parliament if the commission was not set up by this date.

Joint action - Pakistan

Thirty-four IFEX members call for murder investigations

Representatives from the international community of journalists' organisations and press freedom defenders gathered in Lebanon for IFEX's bi-annual conference and urged the Pakistani government and its law-enforcement and security agencies to take immediate action to implement all appropriate measures to protect media personnel and to prosecute murderers of journalists.

Pakistan

IFJ urges interior minister to report on attacks against journalists

IFJ called on the minister and his provincial counterparts to conduct an urgent appraisal of investigations by local authorities into the murders of journalists and to make public his findings.

Pakistan

President vows to pursue justice in journalist murders

The president's commitment, made on World Press Freedom Day, will be monitored by CPJ and national press freedom groups.

Pakistan

AMARC and PPF mission makes key recommendations for disaster response

The mission to flood-hit communities in Pakistan focused on the role of community radio stations in providing key information to residents about reconstruction efforts.

Pakistan

Supporting media and journalists hit by flooding

RSF has provided financial support to three independent newspapers in the Swat valley where there is no electricity.

Joint action - Pakistan

AMARC and PPF appeal to authorities to allow emergency community radio stations in flood affected areas

There is a need to bridge the gaps of information at the very local levels and among displaced peoples, said AMARC and PPF.

Joint action - Pakistan

Twenty-six IFEX members join the Pakistani Federal Union of Journalists in condemning suicide bombings

The organisations appeal to the leaders of the Taliban, to the jihadist movements and to Al-Qaeda in Pakistan to put a stop to all further suicide bombings in public gatherings.

Pakistan

RSF report finds minor improvement for press freedom after Taliban defeat

After months of curfew, journalists are once again carrying out investigative reporting and newspapers that were closed for months are being published.

Awards / International / Pakistan

Pakistani editor receives WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom

Najam Sethi, the former editor-in-chief of the "Daily Times", was honoured for his defence and promotion of press freedom under difficult circumstances and constant personal danger.

Joint action - Pakistan

IFJ and RSF call on president to protect journalists in NWFP

On 26 May 2009, IFJ and RSF wrote a joint letter to President Asif Ali Zardari asking him to intervene in the case of three journalists in Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) who are wanted by the Taliban.

Pakistan

Emergency funds for journalists forced to flee Swat valley

More than 30 journalists and their families have had to seek refuge in Peshawar and other cities since the army launched its offensive against Islamist militants in the Swat valley.

Take action! - Pakistan

Help Swat Valley journalists in exile

The Kyber Union of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are appealing to fellow media and press freedom organisations to raise emergency funds for Pakistan's journalists who have fled Swat Valley.