Sachini Kavindya

Eight years after French photojournalist Camille Lepage was killed in the Central African Republic (CAR), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) regrets that the investigations into her still unexplained death ground to a complete halt several years ago, and calls on the French and Central African judicial authorities to revive their efforts to shed light on the […]

2022-05-11. Prominent Al Jazeera correspondent was reporting from the occupied West Bank town of Jenin when she was shot and critically wounded. Shireen Abu Akleh, prominent Palestinian-American journalist and veteran correspondent of the conflict between Israel and Palestine, was shot while reporting on a military raid in the Jenin refugee camp. She was taken to

Alongside other NGOs defending press freedom, RSF asks the Albanian Commissioner for the Right to Access to Information and Personal Data Protection to shed light upon the private data breaches and intimidation of at least two journalists who investigated a public interest issue: the vetting process of the now dismissed Tirana Chief Prosecutor Elizabeta Imeraj

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails the historic nature of the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA), which is due to be adopted by the end of June following the latest negotiations, but also points its insufficiency. Although the DSA incorporates many of RSF’s proposals for regulating the information chaos caused by the leading online platforms, major issues

On 4 May, UNESCO New Delhi, in collaboration with the European Union Delegation for Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) organized a regional event to commemorate the 2022 World Press Freedom Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The event aimed to provide a platform for advocacy and engagement with the media stakeholders to

The shock at the news that Elon Musk is buying Twitter has highlighted the legal void surrounding the major online platforms in the United States. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the US to finally enable itself to impose online safeguards as the European Union is about to do with its Digital Services Act (DSA).

2022-05-05. In the build-up to this year’s World News Day on 28 September, a global campaign by the World Editors Forum and Canadian Journalism Foundation o show journalism makes a difference, we will be going #BehindTheHeadlines to highlight stories, like this one from The Quint, India, that have had a significant social impact. The Quint

Personal contact information such as your phone number, email or home address, can now be removed from Google search results. Previously, individuals could remove links to contact information when it had been published maliciously – so-called “doxxing”. Now people can request removal if it poses other risks, for example of “harmful direct contact”. Google warns

On World Press Freedom Day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and nine other human rights organizations ask Indian authorities to stop targeting journalists and online critics for their work. More specifically, they should stop prosecuting them under counterterrorism and sedition laws. India is ranked 150th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2022 World Press Index released today. The Indian authorities should