Conflict Journalism

Unidentified gunmen, ambush attacks, serial abductions and human right violations go hand in hand in a conflict ridden society. This is true of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Pakistan or any other country in the world which is going through a same scenario. The strategies of dealing with such conflicts have ranged from political suppression at one end of the spectrum to political accommodation at the...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Mexican government to step up its actions to protect journalists after reports that a missing journalist had been found dead in Veracruz only days after another journalist was killed in the region's other media hotspot, Colombia. "These latest killings once again push Latin America into the ranks of the world's most...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4 (Reuters) - European nations on the Security Council plan to ask the 15-member U.N. body this week to take steps to protect journalists working in war zones, diplomats said on Monday. "Members of the media, acting as the world's witnesses to atrocities and humanitarian needs, alerting all of us to our responsibilities, have ... been increasingly subject to attack," U.N...

(ARTICLE 19/IFEX) - ARTICLE 19 today released an analysis of Nepal's Right to Information Bill - 2063 (2006). Although the Bill includes some very positive features, there are a number of shortcomings, including the seriously overbroad regime of exceptions, Law/Asia Programmes Director Toby Mendel said: "Nepal now has an historic opportunity to put in place a truly democratic framework for freedom...

KARACHI, Dec 1 (IPS) - ''I just reported the truth,'' says 38-year-old Dilawar Wazir Khan wearily, explaining to IPS over the telephone why he was kidnapped and tortured. The last journalist left reporting from South Waziristan, one of the troubled tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, Dilawar Khan works for the Urdu language service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Pakistan's...

New York, November 30, 2006—Sri Lankan authorities should either charge or release a freelance Tamil journalist detained for nearly a week, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Parameswaree Maunasámi, who wrote for the Sinhala-language weekly Mawbima, was arrested at her home south of Colombo on November 24 along with another Tamil woman, according to the local media advocacy group...

Quetta --- Pakistani journalists Saleem Shahzad and Qamar Yousufzai, who had been arrested by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, returned home on Tuesday. The two journalists crossed into Pakistan through the border town of Chaman from Spin Buldak and reported at the FIA immigration post in the afternoon. "Both reported at the immigration post of FIA in the afternoon and we allowed them to enter...

On a November day in 2005, headmaster Tarkeshwar Singh was teaching in a school in Cherpal village near Bijapur in Chhattisgarh. A few Salva Judum leaders, accompanied by police, entered the classroom and told him that he was being arrested. He was taken to the Bijapur police station and told that his crime was to have Naxalite literature and red uniforms at his home, besides firing a gun in a...

(PPF/IFEX) - Dilawar Khan Wazir, correspondent for BBC and Pakistan's "Daily Dawn", was released a day after being kidnapped. The journalist, who reached the BBC office in Islamabad, the capital city of Pakistan, on the evening of 21 November 2006, said he had been held blindfolded and was kicked, slapped and questioned about his reporting and his sources. The journalist did not know the identity...

A CORRESPONDENT for Telesur, the TV channel promoted by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, was arrested over the weekend on terrorism charges on suspicion he was involved in rebel attacks, Colombian police said on Monday. Freddy Munoz, a local reporter for the Caracas-based channel, was detained on Sunday by DAS, Colombia's state security police, at Bogota's El Dorado airport as he returned on a...