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6 Aug

Open letter: Rights organisations call on UK authorities to protect press freedom

After the recent attack on The Guardian columnist Owen Jones, the ECPMF has joined Scottish PEN, ARTICLE 19, English PEN, Index on Censorship, National Union of Journalists Scotland and Reporters Without Borders in an open letter, calling on the UK authorities to take all necessary actions to investigate the attack on Owen Jones and protect […]

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2 Aug

Turkey: Leading coalition of free expression organisations highlight unprecedented crackdown on freedom of expression in report to UN

02.08.2019 More than two years since the attempted coup in 2016 and one year after its state of emergency measures were lifted, the government of Turkey continues its relentless and pervasive crackdown on civic space, media freedom and dissenting voices. Turkey’s human rights record will come under review by the UN through the Universal Period […]

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1 Aug

Spain: submission to UN Human Rights Council on threats to freedom of expression

01.08.2019 The ECPMF and Article 19  have made a Universal Periodic Review submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the situation of freedom of expression in Spain for the 35th Session of the Working Group in January 2020. The submission raises our concerns for freedom of expression in Spain. In particular we raise issues relating […]

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29 Jul

Albania: Government should withdraw “anti-defamation” legislative package introducing state regulation of online media outlets

29.07.2019 Along with four other media freedom organisations, the ECPMF co-signed a statement, raising concern over the amendments of the “anti-defamation” package and calling the Albanian government to withdraw two bills of the law draft. 26 July 2019 On 3 July the Albanian Government’s Council of Ministers approved a series of amendments known as the […]

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16 Jul

Call for new European Commission President to prioritise press freedom

On 16 July 2019, the German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) was elected as the new President of the European Commission. Along with other press freedom organisations, the ECPMF signed a letter, urging Ms Von der Leyen to prioritise press freedom. July 19, 2019 European Commission President Ursula von der LeyenEuropean Commission Rue de […]

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20 Jun

Albania: Preliminary findings of joint freedom of expression mission

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13 Jun

Female sport reporters face floods of sexist insults over World Cup coverage

By Renata Rat – 13.06.2019 When Claudia Neumann, a German sports journalist, commentated on a World Cup football match as the first female reporter ever in 2018, she experienced a flood of heavy sexist insults via social media. “It was just horrible”, said Neumann. Her TV channel, the German public broadcaster ZDF, even filed charges against two […]

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25 May

Checks and balances? Peter Omtzigt’s report on the situation in Malta

By Renata Rat – 25.06.2019 Special Rapporteur Pieter Omtzigt’s report on the rule of law in Malta is damning. Prompted by the 2017 car bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, it finds serious deficiencies.The report is being presented at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 26. June 2019. Media freedom […]

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4 Apr

Twenty years after the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, the trial ends

By Renata Rat – 04.04.2019 It was Easter Sunday April 11th, 1999. The NATO bombs started falling on Serbia a month ago. Slavko Ćuruvija and his partner return home from Easter lunch. In front of their home two masked men approach Ćuruvija and shoot him dead. Fifteen years later, in 2014, the Serbian prosecutor’s office indentified four […]

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13 Mar

Women investigative journalists battle sexism to do it their own way

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