Sachini Kavindya

Responding to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s announcement of a five-year plan for improving respect for human rights, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says Sisi should release the 28 journalists currently detained arbitrarily in Egypt if he wants to show that his government is sincere in its desire to improve the situation. President Sisi’s speech last weekend proclaiming […]

The International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of and support by the international community, national governing bodies, civil society and individuals, can the ideal of democracy be made into a

2021-09-14. Thirty Polish media have today launched a ‘Journalists at the border’ campaign in response to a state of emergency which restricts journalists from accessing the length of the Polish-Belarusian border – here is their statement. The state of emergency, introduced by the government, on the entire length of the Polish-Belarusian border, rules out the

2021-09-14. As countries ramp up privacy regulations, developing data privacy-compliant platforms will help publishers avoid hefty fines while rewarding them with users who trust them and will consent to letting their information be used for advertising and other purposes. During WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference, Ian Hocking of the South China Morning Post and

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger who has been imprisoned for the past two years and whose mental state is now alarming. The Egyptian authorities will be held responsible for whatever happens to him, RSF says. “For the first time, I found Alaa in a

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) declared a “press freedom state of emergency” in Poland during a visit to Warsaw last week, condemning a broadcasting law amendment that threatens TVN, the country’s leading independent broadcast media group, and the arbitrary restrictions on press freedom that the government has imposed as part of state of emergency along the

2021-09-10. Consumers will pay for content that is timely and resonates with them, even in tough markets like Indonesia, where publishers have struggled to persuade users to pay, according to speakers at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference. A session during the event focused on niche revenue opportunities and featured Leilani Han, Director of Business Development