On July 25, 2021, as Tunisia grappled with months of political, sanitary and economic crises, Tunisian president Kaïs Saied suspended the parliament and dismissed the head of government. Saied utilized Article 80 of the 2014 Tunisian Constitution, which grants the president the power to take “the measures imposed by the state of emergency” in case […]
Five days after Cameroonian radio station director Martinez Zogo’s abduction, his body was found near the capital yesterday (22 January), bearing the signs of probable torture before he was killed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to do everything possible to identify those responsible and bring them to justice, and to protect journalists
The Islamic Republic of Iran has arrested three more women journalists, bringing the number of detained women journalists to 16, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) alerts. In total, 55 journalists have been arrested for media-related activities since the start of the Mahsa Amini protests in September. Twenty-seven of these journalists remain behind bars, while the others
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrest of four Chinese journalists following the protests against the zero-Covid policy in China and calls for the release of the two of them still detained. “By arresting and detaining four reporters for the simple fact of being present at the place of the protests, the Chinese regime has
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The Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcomes Philippine Court of Tax Appeals verdict, which has acquitted on Wednesday 18 January Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler, the news organization she founded, of tax evasion in four of seven cases brought by the government. If they had failed to defend the charges, Maria Ressa could have
News globally is still largely dominated by men. Luba Kassova, a writer, researcher and audience strategist, details this imbalance in a recent solutions-oriented report titled From Outrage to Opportunity: How to Include the Missing Perspectives of Women of All Colors in News Leadership and Coverage, commissioned by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The report focuses on India,
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There were more than 200,000 child rights abuse cases in Nigeria in 2020, according to the National Human Right Commission (NHRC). Today, many girls in Niger State, Nigeria have chosen to remain silent about the sexual abuse they’ve experienced, often due to stigmatization. In some cases, too, the perpetrators are relatives. In September, Crusaders Radio,an independent radio
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2023-01-18. Charged with four counts of “alleged wilful and unlawful failure to supply correct and accurate information” in relation to investments and tax filings dating from 2015, Rappler and Maria Ressa were finally acquitted on Wednesday in a verdict handed down by the Philippine Court of Tax Appeals. by Andrew Heslop andrew.heslop@wan-ifra.org | January 18, 2023 Collectively
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2023-01-18. Eighty-six journalists and media workers were killed around the world in 2022 – one every four days, according to UNESCO data – highlighting the grave risks and vulnerabilities that journalists face in the course of their work. by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | January 18, 2023 By Lucinda Jordaan The spike in killings in 2022 marks
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Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were
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