Tag: Reporters Without Borders

• Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Governments' hatred endangers press freedom: the Americas the worst, Reporters without borders

  

  The global press freedom is regressing with more and more countries putting journalists at risk and authoritarian regimes tightening their grip on the media, according to a report released by media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders.

• Monday, March 12th 2018 - 09:47 UTC

  UK calls for a free and independent media at UN Human Rights Council

  

  This UK statement was delivered at the 37th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Geneva during the General Debate on Item 3: Freedom of the Media, held on 8 March 2018.

• Thursday, April 21st 2016 - 10:49 UTC

  Reporters organization questions media ownership concentration in Argentina

  

  Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) international organization questioned the abrogation of Argentina’s media law decided by the administration of President Mauricio Macri, warning the new legislation that creates the Enacom agency “favors” concentration of media ownership in the country.

• Monday, June 1st 2015 - 23:00 UTC

  RSF writes to Dilma Rousseff asking for an end to murders and impunity against media personnel

  

  Appalled by the brutal murders of two Brazilian journalists in the space of a few days, Reporters Without Borders has written to President Dilma Roussef asking her to end the prevailing impunity for crimes of violence against media personnel in her country.

• Friday, February 13th 2015 - 09:16 UTC

  “Drastic decline” in media freedom worldwide in 2014 says RSF annual report

  

  Media freedom suffered a “drastic decline” worldwide last year in part because of extremist groups such as Islamic State and Boko Haram, the watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said in its annual evaluation released Thursday.

• Tuesday, December 23rd 2014 - 04:17 UTC

  Broad Front Deputies pass Media Law bill in Uruguay

  

  New regulations for broadcast media about to be signed into law shortly. President-elect Tabare Vazquez also supports the move.

• Tuesday, December 16th 2014 - 20:54 UTC

  Uruguay's media law bill reaches Senate - Mujica warns of foreign sharks.

  

  President and journalists organisations deem LSCA necessary to avoid handing the media over to outside operators. They see no danger to freedom of speech in legislative project as it is.

• Saturday, February 15th 2014 - 10:24 UTC

  Brazil, the most dangerous country for Latam journalists, according to RSF

  

  More than 20 years after the fall of the dictatorships and civil wars that dominated Latin America, the region continues to be marked by a strong retaliation against the press, according to Reporters Without Borders, RSF, most recent annual index on the state of press freedom, which was published on Feb. 12.

• Friday, May 3rd 2013 - 02:41 UTC

  Freedom of the press in the America exposed to violence and intimidation from governments

  

  Violence, intimidation and polarization still obstruct reporting in Americas says the 2013 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index which was released in anticipation of the World Press Freedom Day, May 3 (*). The report states that the ranking of most countries is no longer attributable to dramatic political developments and this year’s index is a better reflection of the attitudes and intentions of governments towards media freedom in the medium or long term.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2013 - 21:40 UTC

  Swiss organization says 141 journalists were killed in 2012

  

  A record number of journalists, 141 in 29 different countries, were killed globally in 2012, according to data of the Swiss-based Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), which fights for the protection of journalists. At least 28 of them were killed in Latinamerica.