Essay: Israel now ranks among the world’s leading jailers of journalists. We don’t know why they’re behind bars
PETER GRESTE, Professor of Journalism and Communications at Australia’s Macquarie University, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the latest annual report from the Committee to Protect Journalists…
Sudanese journalists form independent union to defend freedoms
Khartoum, Sudan Reuters Sudanese journalists have formed the country’s first independent professional union for decades, in what campaigners said was an important step towards re-establishing freedoms after a military coup. “The victory is to regain our syndicate after more than 30 years in order to defend the freedom and professionalism of the press,” said one […]
Record number of journalists imprisoned in 2020 – report
Reuters A record number of journalists were imprisoned during 2020, as governments cracked down on coverage of the coronavirus pandemic or tried to suppress reporting of civil unrest, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Tuesday. At least 274 journalists were in jail as of 1st December, the most since the New York-based group began […]
Vatican says bishops should report sex abuse to police
Vatican CityAP The Vatican told bishops around the world on Thursday they should report cases of clergy sex crimes to police even when not legally bound to do so, in its latest effort to compel church leaders to protect minors from predator priests. The Vatican issued a long-awaited manual for bishops and religious superiors on […]
Privacy rights: Residents take coronavirus surveillance into their own hands
THIN LEI WIN and BEH LIH YI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how, amid coronavirus lockdowns, some people are recording and reporting others who they suspect of breaking the rules…