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Join all four international freedom of expression mandate holders to discuss their 2023 Joint Declaration on the role of media freedom for attaining and sustaining democracies. #WPFD2023
When: 3 May, 9.30 @VanceCenter @NYCBarAssn
More info: osce.org/representative…
When: 3 May, 9.30 @VanceCenter @NYCBarAssn
More info: osce.org/representative…
How to build a healthier online information ecosystem and ensure access to public interest information?
Find out next week at #WorldPressFreedomDay event with @OSCE_RFoM & @UNESCO
When: 3 May, 11.30 @VanceCenter @NYCBarAssn
More info: osce.org/representative…
Find out next week at #WorldPressFreedomDay event with @OSCE_RFoM & @UNESCO
When: 3 May, 11.30 @VanceCenter @NYCBarAssn
More info: osce.org/representative…
Democracy can only thrive with genuine media pluralism & free speech for all.
Join us next week at a #WorldPressFreedomDay event on Gender Justice and Freedom of Expression with @UN_Women and @APC_News
1 May, 4.30pm EDT at @UNFPA Orange Café
More info: osce.org/representative…
Join us next week at a #WorldPressFreedomDay event on Gender Justice and Freedom of Expression with @UN_Women and @APC_News
1 May, 4.30pm EDT at @UNFPA Orange Café
More info: osce.org/representative…
1/5: In 2017, former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak appealed to Vietnam to allow Simon Rock, then MD of Sime Darby Motor Division, to return to Malaysia.
2/5: At the same time, @SimeDarbyGroup's Vietnamese unit EAC was found to be creating fake invoices and evading tax. The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance accused the sole importer of @BMW cars of several violations.
Reference: retailnews.asia/vietnam-bmw-im…
Reference: retailnews.asia/vietnam-bmw-im…
3/5: Despite the allegations of tax evasion and fake invoices, Malaysian media did not report the issue. Instead, they focused on @NajibRazak asking Vietnam to release Simon Rock (a British national), saying he "worked for a Malaysian company."
Reference: theedgemarkets.com/article/najib-…
Reference: theedgemarkets.com/article/najib-…
⭕️ Did you know a journalist is now killed every 5 days?
✏️ That means around 73 people a year lose their lives while fighting to tell important stories.
How did the situation become so dire?
Here are the 5⃣ biggest threats facing reporters globally. 🧵 #WorldPressFreedomDay
✏️ That means around 73 people a year lose their lives while fighting to tell important stories.
How did the situation become so dire?
Here are the 5⃣ biggest threats facing reporters globally. 🧵 #WorldPressFreedomDay
1⃣ Surging physical violence
⭕️ Holding power to account is increasingly putting the safety of reporters at risk.
⚖️ Yet 87% of these crimes go unpunished, according to @UNESCO. bit.ly/3EKBr3e
⭕️ Holding power to account is increasingly putting the safety of reporters at risk.
⚖️ Yet 87% of these crimes go unpunished, according to @UNESCO. bit.ly/3EKBr3e
✏️ For war correspondents, the threat of physical harm can be especially dangerous.
🇺🇦 In fact, 18 have died so far while reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
🏆 Our #KurtSchork Awards celebrate the heroes covering conflict around the world. bit.ly/3NaoG5A
🇺🇦 In fact, 18 have died so far while reporting on Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
🏆 Our #KurtSchork Awards celebrate the heroes covering conflict around the world. bit.ly/3NaoG5A
#RussianDisinformation at the #UN and #UNSC is not a new development, but #PutinsWar in #Ukraine has brought it into sharp focus. A 🧵 based on my experience leading a team @UKUN_NewYork covering Syria, Ukraine and other issues 1/11
#Disinformation and #Propaganda has been a significant feature of #Kremlin policy since Putin’s controversial ‘re-election’ in 2012. The 🎯 audience is primarily the Russian public but in the #UN context it is also UN member states 2/11
The Putin regime has used #disinformation to justify the 2014 annexation of #Crimea and invasion of #Donbas, to cover up the Russian downing of #MH17, the poisoning of the #Skripals and #Navalny, and #ChemicalWeapons use in #Syria 3/11
🇬🇧 Huge successes and major setbacks after the vote on the #DigitalServicesAct. We won backing for a right to use services anonymously, but there will be mandatory 📱number registration for adult content creators.
Find out who supported and who opposed your digital rights 🧵⬇
Find out who supported and who opposed your digital rights 🧵⬇
Personal information of millions of EU citizens is hacked and leaked again and again, fuelling cybercrime.
We were now able to secure a majority for a right to use and pay for digital services anonymously in the #DigitalServicesAct!
#Breakthrough
We were now able to secure a majority for a right to use and pay for digital services anonymously in the #DigitalServicesAct!
#Breakthrough
Internet corporations use unreliable #uploadfilters against supposedly illegal content - with much collateral damage. The majority won‘t even limit automated censorship to content that is manifestly illegal irrespective of its context.
#rejected
#rejected
Help make the EU #DigitalServicesAct a game-changer for our digital rights! Thursday, the Civil Liberties Committee‘s proposals to #FixTheDSA will be voted in the European Parliament.
Reach out to your MEPs!
Find out more 🧵⬇
Reach out to your MEPs!
Find out more 🧵⬇
Every year, data leaks expose millions of EU citizens' data to cyber-criminals.
We plan to enshrine the right to use and pay for services anonymous-ly in the #DigitalServicesAct, to protect citizens privacy, and reduce the impact of data leaks.
#FixTheDSA
We plan to enshrine the right to use and pay for services anonymous-ly in the #DigitalServicesAct, to protect citizens privacy, and reduce the impact of data leaks.
#FixTheDSA
More and more governments have been abusing their powers to spy on citizens.
The #DigitalServicesAct should ensure your data can only be handed over following a court order to investigate & prosecute serious crime or threats to public security.
#FixTheDSA
The #DigitalServicesAct should ensure your data can only be handed over following a court order to investigate & prosecute serious crime or threats to public security.
#FixTheDSA
1/7. Tweets paraphrasing my open letter to the Chief Justice of India responding to his lament that “the concept of investigative journalism is unfortunately vanishing from the media canvas.” But how and why did that come to be so. Story link at end of thread.
#CJI #mediafreedom
#CJI #mediafreedom
2/7. For about 30 years, I had argued that the Indian media are politically free but imprisoned by profit. Today, they remain imprisoned by profit, but the few independent voices amongst them are increasingly politically imprisoned. Some under the UAPA.
#CJI #mediafreedom
#CJI #mediafreedom
3/7. I do not see the judiciary stepping in to stop this mayhem, whether on governmental corruption, or the mass retrenchment of journalists, the gutting of labour rights, or the misuse of the PM’s title to raise funds free of any kind of transparent audit.
#CJI #mediafreedom
#CJI #mediafreedom
🇹🇭 New Report with @freedomhouse: #FreedomOnTheNet - Internet Freedom Remains under Threat in Thailand! 🚨 The Thai govt still controls the Internet to silence those who bravely speak #Truth to Power! 👉Read @freedomonthenet report bit.ly/3AEA5nK #WhatsHappenigInThailand
🌐In the #FreedomOnTheNet 2021 report, Thailand scored 36/100, placing it in the same category as highly repressive regimes in China or Belarus, where the internet is "NOT FREE". The users were arrested, criminally charged, or subjected to targeted harassment. #MyUniverse #ITZY
👉Are we truly living in a Democracy when the Thai govt uses a whole array of draconian laws and regulations, #LeseMajeste #ComputerCrimeAct to restrict #FreeSpeech & #MediaFreedom - even at times of the #COVID19 pandemic when access to info helps save lives? #LisaMoneyDance
This is a highly disturbing background slideshow for a head of government. I mean, WTF? #Slovenia #RuleOfLaw #MediaFreedom #DRFMG @EP_Justice
Mr Jansa now begins an argument with Chair @SophieintVeld about a video that he says was sent to the EP 3 hours ago. Claims this is censorshop. Will he use this as an excuse to leave the meetin?
Prime Minister of Slovenia now wants to end the session and continue another time "if you are not going to play the video, as pre-arranged". Chairing MEP @SophieintVeld disagrees, meeting contniues.
🔴 Join #MFRR panel on State Capture in 30 min.
Selling media outlets to state-owned companies or abusing legal powers to silence critics are common strategies of governments jeopardising media & #pressfreedom. Discussions w/ @novinarSI @hu_telex @Adbodnar & @globalfreemedia.
Selling media outlets to state-owned companies or abusing legal powers to silence critics are common strategies of governments jeopardising media & #pressfreedom. Discussions w/ @novinarSI @hu_telex @Adbodnar & @globalfreemedia.
High-level speakers on today's last panel:
Petra Lesjak Tušek, Društvo novinarjev Slovenije
Veronika Munk, @Telexhu
Adam Bodnar @Adbodnar, Commissioner for Human Rights
CHAIR: Scott Griffen @scott_f_griffen @globalfreemedia
Petra Lesjak Tušek, Društvo novinarjev Slovenije
Veronika Munk, @Telexhu
Adam Bodnar @Adbodnar, Commissioner for Human Rights
CHAIR: Scott Griffen @scott_f_griffen @globalfreemedia
🔴LIVE in 1 Hour: #MFRR Summit
Join #MFRR keynote w/ UN Special Rapporteur @Irenekhan & Vice President @VeraJourova who will give a global and #Europe-wide picture of the #MediaFreedom landscape.
@ecpmf premieres documentary w/ at-risk journalists & whistleblowers 👇
Join #MFRR keynote w/ UN Special Rapporteur @Irenekhan & Vice President @VeraJourova who will give a global and #Europe-wide picture of the #MediaFreedom landscape.
@ecpmf premieres documentary w/ at-risk journalists & whistleblowers 👇
"With the European Democracy Action Plan we put the #media where they should be, at the core of #democracy."
states @VeraJourova Vice-President for Values and Transparency in the @EU_Commission.
states @VeraJourova Vice-President for Values and Transparency in the @EU_Commission.
Statement by @hrw on today's violence by #Tatmadaw & police in #Burma: "The #Myanmar security forces’ clear escalation in use of lethal force -- in multiple towns & cities across the country in response to mostly peaceful anti-coup protesters -- is outrageous & unacceptable..."
"...and must be immediately halted. Live ammunition should not be used to control or disperse protests and lethal force can only be used to protect life or prevent serious injury.."/2 @pomyanmar @MOFAMyanmar @myanmar_moi @UNinMyanmar
#SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Dawei
#SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Dawei
"...Any deaths and serious injuries should be promptly and impartially investigated. Those found responsible for any unlawful acts should be held accountable..."/3
#Myanmar #SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
#Myanmar #SaveMyanmar #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar
Out now.
@HRW's annual review of #humanrights around the world: #Rights2021
Read @KenRoth's introduction, the individual country chapters, and a curated selection of thematic essays on rights challenges and trends here:
hrw.org/world-report/2…
thread to follow 👇🏾
@HRW's annual review of #humanrights around the world: #Rights2021
Read @KenRoth's introduction, the individual country chapters, and a curated selection of thematic essays on rights challenges and trends here:
hrw.org/world-report/2…
thread to follow 👇🏾
2/ Advance warning/apology - this will be a narrow, parochial thread.
Read for yourself the bigger #Rights2021 report, and the chapters that interest you.
What follows below is just on issues I follow (as perhaps you may also do, seeing as we're connected over twitter)
Read for yourself the bigger #Rights2021 report, and the chapters that interest you.
What follows below is just on issues I follow (as perhaps you may also do, seeing as we're connected over twitter)
3/ Read here what the main #humanrights concerns across the EU🇪🇺 have been during 2020.
hrw.org/news/2021/01/1…
#COVID19
Health, Unemployment, Lockdowns
Poverty and Inequality
Rule of Law
Discrimination and Racism
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Migration and Asylum
hrw.org/news/2021/01/1…
#COVID19
Health, Unemployment, Lockdowns
Poverty and Inequality
Rule of Law
Discrimination and Racism
Sexual and reproductive health and rights
Migration and Asylum
1/6 We met with journalists and bloggers at the Foundation and discussed the President’s Decrees.
2/6 These Decrees cover the issues of cancellation of custodial sentence for libel and insult for journalists.
2/6 These Decrees cover the issues of cancellation of custodial sentence for libel and insult for journalists.
3/6 Also, they cover the issues of the improvement of mechanism for bringing officials to responsibility for obstructing the media and imposing pressure on journalists.
4/6 Colleagues unanimously supported the relevance of improving legislation on these issues and moved their motion.
1/2 Асосий мақсадимиз – аввал ҳам таъкидлаганимиздек, журналист ёки блогер матбуотда айтган сўзи учун қамалмаслиги керак. Ҳамма ривожланган давлатлар каби, иши очиқ судда, адолатли кўрилсин. cutt.ly/IfUQgbv
#massmediauz #mediafreedom
#massmediauz #mediafreedom
2/2 Фондимиз ОАВ вакилларининг қонуний ҳақ-ҳуқуқларига ҳар қандай шаклда тазйиқ ўтказган мансабдор шахсларга нисбатан жавобгарликни ошириш бўйича Президент Қарорининг тезроқ ҳаётга жорий қилиниши тарафдори ва бунга ҳар тарафлама ёрдам беришга тайёрмиз.
1/2 Our main goal, as we mentioned earlier, is not to have a journalist or blogger go to jail for what he or she said in the press. As in all developed countries, a case must be heard in an open and fair court.
cutt.ly/IfUQgbv
#massmediauz #mediafreedom
cutt.ly/IfUQgbv
#massmediauz #mediafreedom
Ministry of Home Affairs in India & right-wing social media trolls identified as "Modi's Yoddhas" have been termed as 2 of the 20 worst digital predators in 2020 by @RSF_inter, an NGO that specialises in the defense of #mediafreedom. @PIBHomeAffairs (1/4)
thewire.in/media/rsf-indi…
thewire.in/media/rsf-indi…
We @AIIndia have similar findings on the situation in Jammu & Kashmir and online violence faced by women in India. The 213 days long internet shutdown in J&K clearly contributed to India's presence on this list along with the incessant trolling faced by women in India. (2/4)
.@AIIndia's study found that 1 in every 7 tweets that mentioned #womenpoliticians in India was 'problematic' or 'abusive'. The situation is terrible with a shrinking space for dissent & unlawful surveillance against #HumanRightsDefenders through spyware & WhatsApp targeting.(3/4)
1/ I'm proud to say that key components of this European Commission co-funded project, which will support cross-boarder investigative journalists and projects, will be delivered by me and my team 👉Zlatina Siderova and @madalinacrc.
2/ Much of the methodology that we have applied to the Engaged Journalism Accelerator (re. 1. how we enable & equip communities of practitioners across Europe, 2. how we establish, review and drawn learnings from robust application & reporting processes, and 3. how we design...
3/ ... and deliver impactful funding+ programmes) will be applied to this project also. Watch this space for more details about the project in the coming weeks #investigativejournalism #mediafreedom
Julian Assange’s detention “sets a dangerous precedent for journalists”, according to politicians from the Council of Europe’s parliamentary arm, who voted on Tuesday to oppose the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition to the US
theguardian.com/media/2020/jan…
theguardian.com/media/2020/jan…
Labour peer and UK Rapporteur on #mediafreedom Lord Foulkes, ...had drafted an initial report – Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists’ Security in Europe – that will now contain amendments referring to Assange tabled by a number of European parliamentarians.
One of the amendments backs the recommendation of the UN special rapporteur on torture who called last year for Assange’s release and for extradition to the United States to be blocked.
And it's on!
Let's see how #Fidesz does in a debate. Even for us, this is uncharted territory, since in Hungary, they refuse debating!🤷♀️
Let's see how #Fidesz does in a debate. Even for us, this is uncharted territory, since in Hungary, they refuse debating!🤷♀️
@euronews @euronewshu @RenewEurope .@JuditVarga_EU starts by challenging the vote that adopted the Sargentini report, that launched Article 7 procedures, portraying @judithineuropa as a bully discouraging undecided MEPs.
@euronews @euronewshu @RenewEurope @JuditVarga_EU @judithineuropa .@SophieintVeld replies with the long list of measures the combined effects of which have undermined #RuleOflaw, #democracy and fundamental #rights in #Hungary.
11. Assange a true HERO. The Siege & Injustice with Julian Assange
#WeAreAllJulianAssange #WeStandWithJulianAssange #FreeAssange #Assange #ProtectJulian #AssangeHERO #Injustice #HumanRights #freeSpeak #Liberty #Killers #WarCrimes #Liars #Democracy #TrueJournalists #Hipocrisy
#WeAreAllJulianAssange #WeStandWithJulianAssange #FreeAssange #Assange #ProtectJulian #AssangeHERO #Injustice #HumanRights #freeSpeak #Liberty #Killers #WarCrimes #Liars #Democracy #TrueJournalists #Hipocrisy
Assange a true HERO 🥰👇🏼
1. Assange a true HERO. The Siege & Injustice with Julian Assange
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Another reporter assaulted for filming police operations
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#accesstoinformation #MediaFreedom
@InfoMinZW @nickmangwana @OSISA @263Chat @UKinZimbabwe @usembassyharare @euinzim @mailandguardian @CPJAfrica
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#accesstoinformation #MediaFreedom
@InfoMinZW @nickmangwana @OSISA @263Chat @UKinZimbabwe @usembassyharare @euinzim @mailandguardian @CPJAfrica
@InfoMinZW @nickmangwana @OSISA @263Chat @UKinZimbabwe @usembassyharare @euinzim @mailandguardian @CPJAfrica A plainclothes police officer assaulted Panashe Makufa a local journalist with online publication Mail & Telegraph on 18 October 2018 in Harare after asking why he was filming a police blitz against illegal foreign currency dealers.
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#MediaFreedom
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#MediaFreedom
@InfoMinZW @nickmangwana @OSISA @263Chat @UKinZimbabwe @usembassyharare @euinzim @mailandguardian @CPJAfrica Makufa was passing through the Road Port regional bus terminus when he noticed police officers arresting illegal money dealers.
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#accesstoinformation #MediaFreedom
#Zimbabwe
bit.ly/2JcB9p7
#accesstoinformation #MediaFreedom
#Zimbabwe
Police arrest suspects for torching AMH newspapers
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
Vendors selling the NewsDay and Zimbabwe Independent published by Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) were on 11 October 2018 attacked by some youths who went on to burn the newspapers in Harare’s central business district.
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
Wisdom Mdzungairi- @wisdomdzungairi , @NewsDayZimbabwe editor, confirmed the incident saying 10 people had been arrested in connection with the incident.
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
bit.ly/2CdD37r
#mediafreedom #freedomofexpression
Regional Solidarity Statement: Embassy official detains journalists in eSwatini
bit.ly/2CdzoGL
#freedomofexpression #mediafreedom
@fojo_int @forfreemedia @IFEX @OSISA @NLinZimbabwe @euinzim @MISARegional @TabaniMoyo @MISA_Swaziland @misazambia @NamMediaTrust
bit.ly/2CdzoGL
#freedomofexpression #mediafreedom
@fojo_int @forfreemedia @IFEX @OSISA @NLinZimbabwe @euinzim @MISARegional @TabaniMoyo @MISA_Swaziland @misazambia @NamMediaTrust
@fojo_int @forfreemedia @IFEX @OSISA @NLinZimbabwe @euinzim @MISARegional @TabaniMoyo @MISA_Swaziland @misazambia @NamMediaTrust An official at the Qatar Embassy in Mbabane temporarily detained two senior Swazi Times journalists on Friday 4 October 2018 in what can only be described as a blatant violation of media freedom rights.
bit.ly/2CdzoGL
#mediafreedom #eSwatini
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@fojo_int @forfreemedia @IFEX @OSISA @NLinZimbabwe @euinzim @MISARegional @TabaniMoyo @MISA_Swaziland @misazambia @NamMediaTrust Senior Times reporter Welcome Dlamini and Business Editor Kwanele Dhladhla visited the Embassy for an interview with the Qatari Acting Ambassador to eSwatini, Yaqoub Yousuf Al Mulla.
bit.ly/2CdzoGL
#mediafreedom #eswatini
@zweli_martin @SwaziTimes
bit.ly/2CdzoGL
#mediafreedom #eswatini
@zweli_martin @SwaziTimes
Wide debate on #eprivacy right now. I see a lot of misunderstandings, let me clarify a few things (& further info: bit.ly/2i99Kd5)
Should I not be asked before my emails are accessed and used? Don't you think the same? Is this asking too much? #eprivacy
