International

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and UNESCO will collaborate on global efforts to forge universal standards towards building a multilingual cyberspace. The three agencies organised a workshop on this subject during the second Internet Governance Forum (IGF) taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 12-15, 2007...

An inquest report has established with great detail that the Indonesian army was responsible for the death of five British, Australian and New Zealander journalists in East Timor in 1975. The report clearly shows they were eliminated because they too much about Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, which was just getting under way. “The detailed and courageous inquest conducted by Dorelle Pinch

For the second year in a row, the Kurt Schork Memorial Awards have honoured a journalist killed in Iraq because of critical reporting. Sahar al-Haideri, a mother of four and contributor to the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) as well as Iraqi media, was gunned down in June in Mosul after receiving death threats for a series of campaigning stories highlighting the influence of religious

Six women who risked their lives reporting in Iraq, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on paedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist who was charged with treason have received awards for courage from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). ABC News' Bob Woodruff, who was nearly killed in a January 2006 bombing in Iraq, presented the award to the Iraqi women for

Reuters and Nokia have joined hands for a project that, they claim, will change the face of journalism worldwide. The two organisations have showcased their first project, a new mobile application, which gives journalists everything they need to file and publish news from the most remote regions of the world. Through an ongoing trial that started this summer, selected Reuters journalists around

Eritrea has replaced North Korea in last place in an index measuring the level of press freedom in 169 countries throughout the world published Tuesday by Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) for the sixth year running. Outside Europe — in which the top 14 countries are located — no region of the world has been spared censorship or violence towards journalists. “There is nothing surprising about

Civil society groups in more than 60 countries celebrated the International Right to Know Day on September 28. Documentation of the past year's achievements of the right to access government information in various countries were released by ARTICLE 19, Privacy International, and the Open Society Justice Initiative. "Although the global movement suffered setbacks in 2007, the bottomline is that

State-controlled Sri Lankan television station Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has sent four of its journalists on compulsory leave after they submitted a letter stating that their professional rights had been disrespected and damaged. According to the Free Media Movement (FMM), SLRC Producers' Union Chairman Kanchana Marasinghe, Organiser Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna, Athula Peiris and

If a new crop of user-news sites and measures of user activity on mainstream news sites are any indication, the news agenda of the future will be more diverse, more transitory, and often draw on a very different and perhaps controversial list of sources, according to a new study. The report, released by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ), compared the news agenda of the mainstream...

The UN Human Rights Council is “still badly falling down on its job” after only a year in existence, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said today. It called for the system of UN special rapporteurs to investigate human rights in individual countries to be maintained. RSF said that the mandates of the rapporteurs on Cuba and Belarus, two of the world’s worst violators of press freedom, had not been...