🔴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.
. @UN Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion @Irenekhan: "Impunity is the worst dangerous form of censorship".
. @Irenekhan identifies 4 major threats to #media pluralism:
1⃣ #COVID19
2⃣ Counter-terrorism
3⃣ General criminalisation of #journalism
4⃣ smear campaigns against #media
1⃣ #COVID19
2⃣ Counter-terrorism
3⃣ General criminalisation of #journalism
4⃣ smear campaigns against #media
. @UN Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion @Irenekhan warns against #SLAPPs & criminalisation of #journalists and quotes journalist and author @mariaressa:
"A lie told a million times becomes a threat".
"A lie told a million times becomes a threat".
"Print media is suffering. Local media has gone down tremendously which means the quality of journalism is also going down. #Journalists are suffering to produce the high-quality work that their professions deserves",
says @Irenekhan during #MFRR Summit.
@YannisKotsifos
says @Irenekhan during #MFRR Summit.
@YannisKotsifos
"Protecting people's right to know, that is what #mediafreedom is about and that is a fundamental #humanright. The right of freedom of expression means to write, to be able to access information.
#MediaFreedom is a public good in that sense."
- @Irenekhan during #MFRR Summit
#MediaFreedom is a public good in that sense."
- @Irenekhan during #MFRR Summit
. @Irenekhan calls for:
1⃣ Protecting #media starts at the top of political leadership.
2⃣ There must be #noimpunity. There must be justice.
3⃣ Push to update outdated laws used to silence #press.
4⃣ Rights must be protected online & offline.
#MFRR Summit
1⃣ Protecting #media starts at the top of political leadership.
2⃣ There must be #noimpunity. There must be justice.
3⃣ Push to update outdated laws used to silence #press.
4⃣ Rights must be protected online & offline.
#MFRR Summit
"Gendered harassment and threats of sexual violence against #women in #journalism is too widespread and prevalent across #Europe. We need to fight this type of abuse to ensure women can continue their work",
warns @MilevskaTanja in @ecpmf documentary during #MFRR Summit.
warns @MilevskaTanja in @ecpmf documentary during #MFRR Summit.
"What it takes is to make sure that all people are equal before the law & institutions. This culture of impunity is very strong in #Montenegro & the other countries in the Balkans and that has to be changed."
- Jovo Martinovic during #MFRR Summit documentary.
- Jovo Martinovic during #MFRR Summit documentary.
"Don't think of this as something that matters to one family alone. Don't think of this as something that matters to one country alone. A threat to #MediaFreedom here is a threat to media freedom in #Europe."
- @Corinne_Vella's message in #MFRR & @ecpmf documentary.
- @Corinne_Vella's message in #MFRR & @ecpmf documentary.
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