All posts tagged human rights
China – Liu Xiaobo, last year’s Nobel peace laureate, still in prison — RSF
In the wake of today’s announcement that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Yemeni rights activist Tawakkul Karman , Reporters Without Borders urges the laureates to press the Chinese government to free last year’s winner of the award , Liu Xiaobo . A dissident writer and intellectual who is serving an 11-year jail sentence, Liu is the only Nobel peace laureate currently in prison . “We congratulate this year’s laureates and welcome the fact that this triple award pays tribute to their work on behalf of women’s rights, a vital cause,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said
BBG may delay birthday present for PRC; no immediate RIFs of VOA journalists
BBG Watch has learned that due to overwhelming protests, including a full bipartisan rebuke by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Broadcasting Board of Governors may delay
BBG’s Commission on Innovation holds first meeting in New York as BBG ignores advice on human rights reporting from its own journalists
The BBG is bragging about its commission on innovation, which is great, but what the BBG needs even more is a commission on sensitivity to human rights abuses
BBG’s Commission on Innovation holds first meeting in New York as BBG ignores advice on human rights reporting from its own journalists
The BBG is bragging about its commission on innovation, which is great, but what the BBG needs even more is a commission on sensitivity to human rights abuses
BBG plan for VOA will harm human rights activists in China — Politburo Media Review
BBG Watch — BBG Politburo Media Review (also on BBG Watch Hot Tub Blog) The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) wants to end all Voice of America radio
China – Activists attacked while trying to visit human rights lawyer under house arrest — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Five human rights activists and netizens were attacked by presumed police auxiliaries on the night of 18 September while trying to
China – Journalist murdered while covering illegal cooking oil scandal
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders is appalled to learn that Li Xiang , a journalist with Luoyang Television in Luoyang (in the eastern
Iran – Regime continues to wage its war against foreign media — RSF
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government's targeting of the BBC's Farsi-language TV station, BBC Persian.
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