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2010: Setting records and strengthening protection of the press
Committee to Protect Journalists
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News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, November 2010
CPJ honors journalists on the frontlines of press freedom
Journalists at the forefront of the battle for press freedom in Ethiopia, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela were honored at the Committee to Protect Journalists' 20th Annual International Press Freedom Awards benefit dinner, held on November 23. The awards dinner was chaired by Sir Howard Stringer, chairman, CEO, and president of Sony Corporation, and hosted by Tom Brokaw, special correspondent for NBC News and CPJ advisory board member. The event raised a record of nearly $1.5 million for CPJ's work helping journalists who are targeted for their reporting.
Celebrating at New York's Waldorf-Astoria, about 900 guests paid tribute to the courage shown by Dawit Kebede (Awramba Times, Ethiopia), Nadira Isayeva (Chernovik, Russia), and Laureano Márquez (Tal Cual, Venezuela) in defying repression to report the news and keep citizens informed.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, October 2010
CPJ announces 2010 press freedom awards
Media repression in Iran, Ethiopia, Russia and Venezuela will be under the spotlight next month when CPJ presents the 2010 International Press Freedom Awards in New York City. CPJ announced the winners this month:Dawit Kebede of Ethiopia, Nadira Isayeva of Russia, Laureano Márquez of Venezuela and Mohammad Davari of Iran. All have put their personal freedom and security on the line to report the news. CPJ's Burton Benjamin Memorial Award will go to Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute, to mark his long career in defense of press freedom and human rights.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, September 2010
With a push from CPJ, Jordan moves away from repressive cyber law
Embracing a global trend, the Kingdom of Jordan, a relative bastion of press freedom in the Middle East, sought to enact a restrictive cyber crime law that would have criminalized "sending or posting data or information via the Internet or any information system that involves defamation or contempt or slander."
CPJ wrote to King Abdullah on August 17 expressing concern about the vague nature of the law, which includes provisions that would have permitted warrantless searches of offices that host websites. "We fail to see the urgency with which this law is being enacted," CPJ wrote in the letter. "According to Article 94 of Jordan's constitution, the government has the right to issue provisional laws on urgent matters in the absence of a parliament. Since the Jordanian parliament was dissolved in 2009 following widespread criticism of ineffectiveness and corruption, the next parliamentary elections are scheduled for November."
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, August 2010
Honduras report citing official failures draws a response
In a few short months, seven journalists were gunned down in Honduras. While the country has been beset by crime and political turmoil, it had not been known as a particularly dangerous place for the press. Is someone targeting the media?
CPJ dispatched consultant Mike O'Connor to Honduras to find out. His detailed report chronicling all seven murders paints a complex picture in which journalists covering crime and corruption are also tainted by it. While there is no evidence of a government conspiracy in the killings, there are plenty of indications of official indifference and incompetence in carrying out investigations. The failures, CPJ found, may be fueling additional violence.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, July 2010
For weeks, CPJ staff had been getting hints that
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, June 2010
UNESCO responds to protests
UNESCO's plan to bestow the Obiang International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences, named for and financed by the most repressive leader of Equatorial Guinea, was met with an outcry from the human rights community. When UNESCO announced they would be bestowing the prize, press freedom organizations - including CPJ - UNESCO/Cano World Press Freedom Prize laureates, and South Africa's Bishop Desmond Tutu protested. The message got through to Irina Bokova, UNESCO's director-general: the very credibility of UNESCO was at stake.
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, May 2010
Two Victories for
Press Freedom Online
Danny O’Brien, CPJ’s new Internet Advocacy Coordinator, joined
us with a brief to defend online journalists and the Internet itself as a
medium for global press freedom. In his first month, he helped reform a weak
law in
News from the Committee to Protect Journalists, April 2010
More than 3,500 petition Iran
February 2010
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January 2010
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