Media and Human Rights List Archive -- Index by Threads

• "Freedom of expression and information is the oxygen of democracy" say Council of Europe leaders, Council of Europe Press
• 13th World Press Freedom Day (Saturday, 3 May 2003), rsf
• 2003 Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships available for developing world, print journalists, Beth Woods
• 2004 Southeast Asia Press Fellowship, Southeast Asian Press Alliance
• Afghanistan: Government tries to reintroduce censorship about the security situation, Reporters Without Borders
• Afghanistan: Pakistani journalist detained by US forces, RSF asia
• Afghanistan: Radio Free Afghanistan journalist attacked and expelled from Herat, RSF Asia
• Afghanistan: Sharp rise in press attacks, Human Rights Watch
• Afghanistan: Supreme Court bans cable TV, RSF Asia
• Afghanistan: The situation of press freedom one year after the fall of the Taliban, RSF asia
• Africa Conference on Freedom of Expression (Pretoria, 19-20 February 2004), Fatou Jagne
• Albania: Media freedoms still suffer, owner-hr-headlines
• Algeria: First conviction of a cartoonist under amended criminal code, owner-hr-headlines
• Angola: Political, press freedoms vital to elections, Human Rights Watch
• Armenia: Violence and intimidation against journalists, HREA
• Article 19 releases campaign pack on defamation and insult laws in SADC, Fatou Jagne
• Australia: High Court's decision jeopardises freedom of expression on the Internet, RSF asia
• Azerbaijan: Continued harassment of media, owner-hr-headlines
• Azerbaijan: Press freedom undermined, says Human Rights Watch, owner-hr-headlines
• Azerbaijan: Rising tide of persecution against independent journalism, HREA
• Azerbaijan: Two more journalists imprisoned for libel, HREA
• Bangladesh/Pakistan: Newsweek banned over article on the Koran, RSF asia
• Bangladesh: Government threatens to prosecute paper for sedition, owner-hr-headlines
• Bangladesh: Journalist attacked by police, detained and charged with theft, RSF asia
• Belarus: Suspension of independent newspapers, subscription
• Belarusian journalist murdered, owner-hr-headlines
• A black day for free expression in Abidjan, owner-hr-headlines
• Books Not Bars Video, Ronit Avni
• Burma/Myanmar: Regime bans two magazines, RSF asia
• Burma: French journalist gives Aung San Suu Kyi a Prize to pass on to San San Nweh, RSF asia
• Burma: Leading journalist U Win Tin "celebrates" 73rd birthday in detention, RSF asia
• Burma: Press freedom organisations challenge military junta's denial over closure of Khit-Sann, owner-hr-headlines
• Burundi: Journalists subjected to constant attacks, Amnesty International
• Cambodia: Freedom of expression under attack, Amnesty International
• China cracks down on free expression in the midst of human rights dialogue with the European Union, RSF Asia
• China: Media Freedom Under Assault Ahead of 2008 Olympics, Human Rights Watch
• Chinese go further, faster and higher with media crackdown two years before Beijing olympics, RSF
• CJFE International Press Freedom Award winners hail from Colombia, Egypt and Pakistan, Geoffrey Chan
• Committee to Protect Journalists will receive 2004 OSCE Prize for Journalism and Democracy, subscription
• Concerns about changes in minority broadcasting programmes in Vojvodina/Serbia, SEEMO
• Conference "Human Rights in the Media" (University of Connecticut, Nov. 9, 2004), Nana Amos
• Conference in Paris to try to restore dialogue in Mohammed cartoons crisis, HREA
• Council of Europe asks for a law on gender equality in the media, owner-hr-headlines
• Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopts a declaration and a recommendation on the media and criminal proceedings, Council of Europe Press
• Council of Europe reaffirms the fundamental right to freedom of expression and information, Council of Europe Press
• Cuban activists and journalists await international action, Digital Freedom Network
• Declaration of Principle on Freedom of Expression in Africa, owner-hr-headlines
• Decriminalise libel, says Council of Europe on the occasion of the 2006 World Press Freedom Day, Council of Europe
• DFN Hosts Online Meeting with Guardian journalist Andrew Meldrum, Digital Freedom Network
• Documentary on Haiti, Powerbook
• East Asia and Middle East have worst press freedom records, rsf
• East Timor: Australian journalist arrested and threatened with expulsion, owner-hr-media
• Egypt: Prison for Al-Jazeera journalist who exposed torture, HREA
• Eminent women journalists mark International Women's Day at the ILO, owner-hr-headlines
• Entries Invited by UNESCO and PPF for Gender in Journalism Awards, Owais Aslam Ali
• Equatorial Guinea: UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression will visit, UN News Service
• Eritrea: Concerns about jailed journalists and political dissidents, Fatou Jagne
• European experts to advise on Croatian media legislation, subscription
• Fellowships at the National Endowment for Democracy, Zerxes Spencer
• The first worldwide press freedom index, RSF asia
• Former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media receives Germany's Order of Merit, owner-hr-headlines
• France: Lebanese satellite TV banned from Eutelsat, rsf
• France: Satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo acquitted in cartoons row, HREA
• Freedom of Expression Handbook and on-line database, Peter Noorlander
• Freedom of expression in Europe - Case-law concerning Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Council of Europe Publishing
• The Gambia: Concerns over law establishing national media commission, Fatou Jagne
• Global freedom of expression rapporteurs condemn violence against journalists, urge self-regulation, HREA
• Greece: Police enters radio station Makedonikos Ichos, ceasing transmitting equipment, SEEMO
• Greek Journalist Receives the Seemo Award for Human Rights and Mutual Cooperation in South East Europe, SEEMO
• Haiti: Instigators of Jean Dominique killing still unidetified, Amnesty International
• Haiti: Journalists pay a high price for freedom of expression, owner-hr-headlines
• Haiti: No justice for Jean Dominique, no real rule of law, ainews
• Highway Africa New Media Conference (Grahamstown, 8-10 September 2003), Camilla Perks
• Human rights in the spotlight at Istanbul International film festival, HREA
• Human Rights Reporting for Journalists, Frank Elbers
• IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize, Emma Walters
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 12 August 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 13 February 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 13 November 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 14 October 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 18 December 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 19 August 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 21 January 2003, Index on Censorship magazine
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 21 October 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 22 July 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 22 September 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 23 September 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 26 February 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 26 November 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 28 January 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 29 July 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 30 September 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 5 August 2002, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 5 February 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• Index on Censorship e-bulletin 6 October 2003, Rohan Jayasekera
• India: A group of journalists attacked by police in Gujarat, RSF asia
• India: Bomb attack on paper in Darjeeling, RSF asia
• India: Journalist murdered in Uttar Pradesh, RSF asia
• Indigenous peoples need higher profile in mainstream media, UN News Service
• Indonesia: Media Under Attack in Aceh, Human Rights Watch