Reporters Without Borders Protests Restrictions on International Broadcasts
2008-11-06 00:26:00 FreeMediaOnline.org and Free Media Online Blog November 5, 2008, San Francisco – The worldwide press freedom organization, Reporters Without Borders, has sent a letter to President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev appealing to him to intervene after the National Broadcasting Council announced it planned to take three foreign radios stations off the FM band by 2009. They ...
Creative Ads Of Reporters Without Borders.
2008-06-04 20:04:00 Creative Ads Of Reporters Without Borders.These are some of the creative ads of 'Reporters Without Borders', they do seem to make a point.(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).(Image: Credit).Other Posts:Frozen Ships.Wood World.Amazing Lighthouses.Vehicles With A Difference.Best Places To Visit Least Once.
By: Crooked Brains
Why Reporters Without Borders Won?t Shut Up
2008-05-15 19:52:00 A few weeks ago, Amnesty International and the social networking site Blog Catalog announced an initiative designed to promote human rights issues across the blogosphere. Today, May 15, is the day it all kicks off and hopefully thousands will be blogging about what the topic means to them.
By: Roastfrog.net
First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders webs
2008-03-12 17:29:00 First Online Free Expression Day launched on Reporters Without Borders website: Cyber-demonstrations for free speech rights on the internet. [hat tip]
Gambia: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:49:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Gambia - Annual Report 2008 Area : 11,300 sq. km. Population : 1,663,000. Language : English. Head of state : Yahya Jammeh. The Gambian press does its best to survive in a climate in which an authoritarian president believes Aids can be cured with ointments and by reading the Koran, where intelligence services are dreaded for the brutality of their methods, ...
Zimbabwe: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:43:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Zimbabwe - Annual Report 2008 Area : 390,760 sq. km. Population : 13,228,000. Languages : English, Shona, Ndebele. Head of state : Robert Mugabe. For the past five years southern Africa?s former ?bread basket? has been plunged into a deep economic and political crisis, dragging down one of Africa?s most robust media in its repressive wake. Since 2002, the daily lot ...
Sudan: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:41:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Sudan - Annual Report 2008 Area : 2,505,810 sq. km. Population : 37,707,000. Languages : Arabic, English. Head of state : Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The Sudanese press appearing in Khartoum was once again in 2007 a regular target for the security services who will not allow journalists to get in the way of government action. Several arrests ...
Somalia: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:38:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Somalia - Annual Report 2008 Area : 637, 660 sq. km. Population : 8,445,000. Language : Somali. Head of state : Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed. Africa?s deadliest country for journalists, which has been without a stable government since 1991, has had a bleak year. Journalists in Somalia, a country which despite everything has a diverse and robust press, ...
Rwanda: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:35:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Rwanda - Annual Report 2008 Area : 26,340 sq. km. Population : 9,464,000. Languages : Kinyarwanda, French, English, Swahili. Head of state : Paul Kagame. Appalling relations persisted between the government and a section of the independent press, especially the more highly critical publications. The strength of government hostility pushed some newspapers into closure. Meanwhile journalist Tatiana ...
Nigeria: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:33:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Nigeria - Annual Report 2007 Area : 923,770 sq. km. Population : 144,720,000. Language : English. Head of state : Umaru Musa Yar?Adua, president. The West African giant rejoices in a privately-owned, plentiful and irreverent press, eager to expose the intrigues of an often corrupt political class. But the authorities have a number of means of slapping ...
Niger: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:30:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Niger - Annual Report 2008 Area : 1 267 000 km2. Population : 13 737 000. Language : French. Head of state : Mamadou Tandja. Five journalists, three of them foreigners, were imprisoned in 2007 for reporting on or interviewing Touareg rebels, who, from February onwards began attacking military posts in the north of the country. The ...
Mauritania: Reporters Without Borders Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:27:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Mauritania - Annual Report 2008 Area : 1 025 520 km2. Population : 3 044 000. Languages : Arabic, French. Head of State : Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. Freedom of press is alive and well in Mauritania, even if journalists in the capital Nouakchott face many complex challenges. The year 2007 was distinguished by a rare ...
Reporters Without Borders Gambia Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:24:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Gambia - Annual Report 2008 Area : 11,300 sq. km. Population : 1,663,000. Language : English. Head of state : Yahya Jammeh. The Gambian press does its best to survive in a climate in which an authoritarian president believes Aids can be cured with ointments and by reading the Koran, where intelligence services are dreaded for the brutality of their methods, ...
Reporters Without Borders Ethiopia Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:22:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Ethiopia - Annual Report 2008 Area : 1,104,300 sq. km. Population : 81,021,000. Language : Amharic. Head of government : Meles Zenawi. The crisis which began in November 2005 with the arrest of around 20 newspaper bosses ended honourably, in 2007, thanks to international pressure. But the climate remains bad and self-censorship frequent. Two Eritrea journalists are still being used as ...
Reporters Without Borders Eritrea Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:19:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Eritrea - Annual Report 2008 Area : 117,600 sq. km. Population : 4,400,000. Language : Tigrinya. Head of state : Issaias Afeworki. For the first time, this small country in the Horn of Africa led since independence by Issaias Afeworki, figures in last place in Reporters Without Borders? worldwide press freedom index, for the simple reason that the situation has gone ...
Reporters Without Borders Democratic Republic of Congo Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:17:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Democratic Republic of Congo - Annual Report 2008 Area : 2,344,860 sq. km. Population : 60,644,000. Language : French. Head of state : Joseph Kabila, president. The vast territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo boasts hundreds of newspapers and scores of privately-owned radio and television stations. Political tensions run high and the media, often dependent on parties competing for power ...
Reporters Without Borders Chad Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:14:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Chad - Annual Report 2008 Area : 1,284,200 sq. km. Population : 10,468,000. Language : French. Head of state : Idriss Deby Itno. The ?Zoé?s Ark? case of alleged child abduction, led to the imprisonment of three journalists covering the secret operation as well as the French managers of the organisation. Elsewhere, Chadian police did not hesitate to arrest journalists considered ...
Report: Reporters Without Borders Africa Annual Report 2008
2008-02-18 14:11:00 Source: Reporters Without Borders Introduction Africa - Annual report 2008 Cracking down without any complexes Africa - Annual report 2008 African governments in 2007 began doing what they had not dared to do before. Boundaries they would not previously have crossed, to crack down on journalists who annoyed them, were all removed. Free of hang-ups, several information ministers spent ...
Reporters Without Borders come to Qatar
2008-01-04 10:47:00 The Doha Media Freedom centre has been set up in Qatar, Gulf News reported today. The centre will be funded by the government and run independently by Reporters Without Borders. The centre was set up at the instigation of the Emir.Reporters Without Borders currently rates Qatar 79 out of 169 countries in its press freedom index, just below Kenya and just above the Congo.It is perhaps ironic that the move comes shortly after the Qatar Journal editor was refused exit from Qatar when attempting to attend a conference by the Arab Free Press Forum in Beirut. Nigel himself attributed this to a mistake made by the immigration authorities regarding his sponsorship rather than a deliberate policy of repressing press freedom - however, the issue remains that Qatar certainly does have borders for reporters!If representatives of Reporters Without Borders have to follow local laws, they will have to be sponsored. This means that they will need permission to leave the country - a permission which...
By: Qatar Visitor
The Media Freedom list from Reporters without Borders
2007-10-18 01:59:00 Reporters without Borders has published their annual Press Freedom list of countries with and without media freedom (and degrees in between).
Reporters Without Borders voices concern about Russian prosecutor?s comment
2007-08-29 19:26:00 Reporters Without Borders’ press release raises several concerns about the announcement of arrests in the murder last year of independent Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, FreeMediaOnline.org reported. We also noted that the Russian prosecutor pointed to unidentified ‘persons outside of Russia’ as the masterminds of Politkovskaya’s murder. Murders in Russia of many other independent journalists still remain ...
Reporters Without Borders - 2007 Annual Report
2007-02-03 14:14:00 Reporters Without Borders issued its annual report on freedom of press in the world, and as it says, "once again, freedom of expression is under siege everywhere".MIDDLE EAST Regarding the Middle East, the report clearly refers to the difficulties journalists face in Iraq and in the Palestinian territories. 65 Journalist were killed in Iraq, others were attacked, targeted and kidnapped for their political or ethnical membership.Kidnaps and attack were also relevant in the Palestinian Territories, and 17 media workers were wounded in shooting by the Israeli army.In addition to the well-known dictatorship in the zone, Reporters Without Borders points out the increasingly influence of the religion in media. The cartoons of the prophet Mohamed that appeared in a Danish newspaper caused a batch of protests in Middle East and the report states that "Instead of calming the crowds protesting at Danish embassies in the region, Arab governments chose to censor the media as a wa...
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