All posts tagged human rights

Human Rights Abuse in China Exhibit

Supporter of press freedom shows photographs of human rights abuse in China

Coinciding with World Press Freedom Day on May 3, a photo exhibit of human rights abuse in China organized by a media freedom supporter, Laogai Research Foundation founder Harry Wu, is currently on display in New York’s Capitol. Harry Wu …

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Broadcasting Board of Governors – Information War Lost – Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan

Broadcasting Board of Governors - Information War Lost - Dysfunctional, Defunct and Ungovernable - Boston, Chechnya, Kazakhstan

by The Federalist    
"In reality, the actions of the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB) executives represent US

Two Broadcasting Board of Governors members will visit Russia, check on Radio Liberty

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_13147" align="alignleft" width="140" caption="Susan McCue"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10438" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Michael Meehan"][/caption] Two board members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), Susan McCue and Michael

Masha Gessen resigns from Radio Liberty in Russia

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_19186" align="alignnone" width="662" caption="Radio Liberty in Exile journalists who were fired or resigned from Radio Liberty shortly before Masha Gessen took over as director of

Radio Liberty in Exile fills gap in human rights coverage in Russia

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_19186" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Radio Liberty in Exile Facebook Page and New Liberty SvobodaNew.com Photo"][/caption] Fired Radio Liberty journalists are providing multimedia human rights news coverage

Michael Lynton misses another Broadcasting Board of Governors meeting, makes agency ungovernable

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_21917" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="BBG Board, Apr. 2013. Image shows four vacancies."][/caption] Sources at the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) report that BBG's Interim Presiding Governor

Russia Talking to Itself – journalists discuss media landscape and Radio Liberty

[caption id="attachment_16699" align="alignleft" width="100" caption="Z. Dzieciolowski"][/caption] Kremlin control of the Russian media may not be absolute, though it comes pretty close, and the few independent media have to

Best expert analysis of Chechnya, Boston, jihadism connection comes from Radio Liberty in Exile

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_19190" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Andrei Babitsky"][/caption] Fired Radio Liberty Russian journalists delivered some of the best in depth analysis of the links between the Boston bombings,

Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reports

BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty in Exile covers Navalny trial with videos, photos, interviews and news reports [caption id="attachment_21851" align="alignleft" width="421" caption="Supporter of Navalny, photo by Yuri Timofeev"][/caption] Russian journalists

CUSIB’s Ann Noonan condemns targeting of dissidents’ children in China, defends RFA and VOA radio broadcasts

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_20333" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="CUSIB Executive Director Ann Noonan at BBG's Feb. 2013 meeting"][/caption] Ann Noonan, Executive Director of the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB

Resignation of Dennis Mulhaupt from BBG was sudden, strange, unexplained

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_15230" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Dennis Mulhaupt"][/caption] Sources tell BBG Watch that

Dennis Mulhaupt leaves BBG, no quorum if Michael Lynton continues to be a no show at meetings

BBG Watch Commentary [caption id="attachment_15230" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Dennis Mulhaupt"][/caption] A Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) member Dennis Mulhaupt has informed the White House that he is resigning from the

Digital Journal Op-Ed: America could learn from rappers’ tribute to Radio Free Europe

Digital Journal Op-Ed: America could learn from rappers'

Bulat Atabayev – Radio Liberty Kazakh Service stopped radio programs and became a tabloid website

BBG Watch Commentary Prominent Kazakh theater director and former political prisoner Bulat Atabayev joined other Kazakh opposition leaders in criticizing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for stopping radio

Czech newspaper wonders if BBG Watch is right about imminent reforms at RFE/RL

BBG Watch Commentary Lidove Noviny, a daily Czech newspaper, published a commentary wondering whether the new acting Radio Free Europe /

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