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Reporters Without Borders

Congo: Time to Send in the Clowns?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Clowns Without Borders, Rape, Radio Maendeleo, Delphie Namuto, United Nations, Jolly Kamuntu, Goma, Joseph Kabila, IDP Camps, Radio Okapi, Unhcr, North Kivu, Doctors Without Borders, Caddy Adzuba, Georgianne Nienaber, DRC Violence, Hillary Clinton, State Department, Refugees, Jane Trahey, Reporters Without Borders, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, Committee to Protect Journalists, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Congolese president Joseph Kabila paved the way for a troupe of Spanish Clowns, while thugs and militia rule the Kivus and truth-seeking journalist are threatened.

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Reporters Without Borders: Defending Environmental Journalists From Attacks

rsf.org | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Reporters Without Borders, Environmental Journalists, Green News

In many countries, journalists who specialise in covering environmental issues are on the front line of a new war. Their work poses a threat to many c...

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Christian Poveda: French Filmmaker Killed In El Salvador; 1 Arrested

AP | MARCOS ALEMAN | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Guadalajara Film Festival Memory Award, Film, Christian Poveda, San Salvador, Central America, U.S. Prisons, French Filmmaker, Violence, Social Justice, Gangs, El Salvador, France, Reporters Without Borders, Journalism, Guadalajara Film Festival, GDocumentary Film, Poverty, Photojournalist, Media, Tonacatepeque, World News

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — A French filmmaker who spent years documenting the brutality and desperation of a Salvadoran street gang has been fo...

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"Just Add Me": Saudi Information Minister Embraces Social Networking

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 08.07.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Twitter, Queen Rania, Social Networking, Iran Election, Saudi Arabia, Saudi King Abdullah, Iran, Facebook, Journalism, World News, World News
Faisal J. Abbas

A typical Saudi information minister would usually seek to block or censor these types of networks where information could flow freely, rather than joining them.

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Robert Ménard Slams Door, or Booted Out, of Doha Center for Media Freedom?

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 07.31.2009 | Media

Read More: Al Arab Online, French, Cia, Jaber Al Harmi, Al Jazeera, Robert MéNard, Doha Center for Media Freedom, Arab Media, Usa, Arab World, Paris, Reporters Without Borders, France 3 TV, Al Sharq, The Economist, Afp, Sheikh Hamad Bin Thamer Al-Thani, On en Parle a Paris, Qatar, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Depending on whose version one believes, Robert Ménard, ex-director of the Doha Center for Media Freedom, pushed the press freedom envelope a bit too far, until he was shoved out the door.

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Lessons for Americans from Roxana Saberi's Release

Sam Sedaei | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Reporters Without Borders, Roxana Saberi, United States, Iran, Evin Prison, Barack Obama, World News
Sam Sedaei

Roxana Saberi's story should be the beginning of another story, and that is the US government's speaking up about human rights atrocities in all parts of the world, rather than just Darfur.

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Pakistani Journalist, Amir Wakil, Killed; Reporters Without Borders Calls For Media Protection

AFP | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Reporters Without Borders Pakistan, Amir Wakil, Pakistan Journalist Killed, Pakistan Media, Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders, World News

ISLAMABAD (AFP) -- The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders Tuesday urged Pakistan to control violence after the recent killing of a journali...

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Musings on Mauritanian Media

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 09.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Ahmed Ould Neda, Akhbar Nouakchott, Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi, First Quantum Minerals Ltd, TV Mauritania, Bbc News, All the President’s Men, General Mohammad Ould Abdul Aziz, Reporters Without Borders, Al Chaab, Rajoul Echaree, Mauritania, Radio Mauritania, Al Hurriya, Le Calame, Committee to Protect Journalists, Journal Officiel, Al Akhbar, L’eveil-Hebdo, Nouakchott, Media News
Magda Abu-Fadil

State-run Mauritanian radio and TV with programs in Arabic, French and several local languages have seen some improvements given their meager resources.

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Human Rights Group Overtakes Beijing Radio Station For Protest

Times Online | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Reporters Without Borders, China Censorship, Olympics Protests, Human Rights, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Reporters Without Borders Protest, China Human Rights, Media News

The world's best-known advocate of freedom of the media took its message to the heart of Beijing this morning, making a pirate broadcast on Chinese ra...

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China Frees the Internet (Sort Of): Unblocks Amnesty, BBC, RSF Sites

Danwei | Posted 08.10.2008 | Media

Read More: Reporters Without Borders, Censored Internet, Olympics, Censored Web, Bbc, Amnesty International, China Internet Access, Chinese Censorship, Chinese Internet, Media News

The last two days have seen some serious complaints from the international media about China's ongoing Internet censorship, which was supposed to be s...

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China Expands Internet Censorship

Variety | Clifford Coonan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Chinese Human Rights Defenders, Reporters Without Borders, China, Chinese Censorship, Internet Censorship, Media News

Chinese Internet censorship is getting more sophisticated and systematic, which has grim consequences for freedom of expression and media rights, acco...

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