Rights

Ukraine: Journalists targeted and in danger, warn top rights experts

New York: Journalists in Ukraine have been targeted and continue to face unprecedented dangers carrying out their work in the wake of the Russian invasion, top independent rights experts said on Wednesday. more

Threats to media workers’ freedom ‘growing by the day’, UN chief warns

New York: Journalists and media workers are facing “increasing politicization” of their work and threats to their freedom to simply do their jobs, that are “growing by t ...

Yemen: Human right violations against journalists, coming ‘from all quarters’

New York: Unparalleled rights violations and abuses against journalists are being carried out by all parties to the armed conflict in Yemen, the UN human rights chief said on Thursday

Reporters Without Borders warns Pakistan authorities against threatening journalists living abroad

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a Paris-based non-profit organisation, has said it is shocked by a leaked Pakistani government internal memo about stopping the “rhetor ...

COVID19: Chinese govt trying to silence critics as journalists, activists wage war against regime

Beijing/JEN:While China tries to combat COVID 19 and the backlash from the world for creating the virus, challenges are coming up from within its soil now as several journalists are fight ...

Amnesty International pays tribute to slain Afghan journalists on World Press Freedom Day

Kabul: Journalists in Afghanistan face threats, intimidation and violence for simply doing their jobs, Amnesty International said on World Press Freedom Day as it honoured the memory of t ...

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