Full Coverage: Freedom of expression

31.05.2007

29.05.2007 Human Rights Watch, an independent NGO, released its World Report 2007, disclosing facts on human rights developments in 2006 in more than 75 nations. The report enclosed articles on the European Union, freedom of expression since 9/11, the plight of migrant domestic workers, and a human rights agenda for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon.

18.05.2007 OneWorld South Asia and CIVICUS are jointly holding a workshop on Accountability of the Media on May 24 at the CIVICUS World Assembly being held at Glasgow from May 23-28.

16.05.2007 A group of Macedonian non-governmental organizations give their full support and solidarity to Iso Rusi, journalist and president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Macedonia, related to the attacks and threats that the Democratic Party of Albanians (DPA) sent to his address provoked by his recent op-ed, titled “Gospodin Gospodin Thaqi” (Gospodin Gospodin is the official title of the archbishop of the Macedonian Orthodox Church), published in “Koha” daily newspaper.

09.05.2007 WASHINGTON, May 9 (IPS) - In the run-up to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon planned to create a 'Rapid Reaction Media Team' (RRMT) designed to ensure control over major Iraqi media while providing an Iraqi 'face' for its efforts, according to a 'White Paper' obtained by the independent National Security Archive (NSA) which released it Tuesday.

07.05.2007 Ranjith Thankappan, Lecturer at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India, cites cases such as those of Jessica Lal to problematise the socially responsible face of the media, and to expose media/judicial activisms with respect to 'upper' caste/class India and the lack of it with respect to Dalit/Subaltern India.

02.05.2007 MOSCOW, May 2 (IPS) - A posthumous award will be presented on Press Freedom Day Thursday in honour of Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative reporter who exposed human rights abuses including rape, abductions, and killings in the breakaway republic Chechnya.

02.05.2007 New Delhi based Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative has criticised anti-terrorism legislation for restricting the scope of media on World Press Freedom Day. By suppressing the right to expression, the new laws serve political interests in the ‘war on terror’ instead of fighting terrorism, CHRI claims.

01.05.2007 The Pakistan Human Rights Watch, in a letter, alleged that the government had consistently muzzled the media in Balochistan, tribal areas and "Pakistan administered Kashmir", and urged President Musharraf to take corrective action.