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Access Now releases recommendations to fight misinformation
On 21 April, Access Now published Fighting misinformation and defending free expression during COVID-19: recommendations for states — a series of recommendations for protecting freedom of expression and opinion and the right to impart and receive information. “Hasty...
Identifying Fake News in Coronavirus
The OECD Forum Network defines fake news as: “journalism or information that either deliberately or unintentionally misleads people and distorts reality by spreading false information, hoaxes, propaganda, or misrepresentation of facts” The Cambridge Dictionary’s fake...
Resources for journalists in times of coronaviurs pandemic
Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Meanwhile, AEJ Belgium recommends thtat you check out the following items: The International Press Institute (IPI) launched – on Tuesday (24 March) – a new web page to track attacks on journalists and restrictions...
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COE Annual report for 2020
The group of international media freedom NGOs working on the Council of Europe’s platform for the safety of journalists will launch their annual report for 2020 – entitled “Hands off press freedom: Attacks on media in Europe must not become a new normal” – via an...
AEJ report: Twenty-four rights-groups call on Turkey to release all those arbitrarily detained, now at risk of Covid-19
A new statement by 24 concerned international groups, including the AEJ, has deplored Turkey’s failure to include journalists and human rights defenders among the 90,000 prisoners freed this week in response to the raised health risks in prisons caused by the...
Greek journalist Sofia Kartali Detained for Two Days in Turkey
On 1 March 2020, Greek freelance video reporter Sofia Kartali was arrested by Turkish police while recording the surge of would-be migrants massing at Elcili Koyu near the border with Greece in the hope of crossing it. On presentation of her Greek identity document...
INSIDE THE NEWSROOM – PROFILES OF JOURNALISTS
In association with Radio Gold
In memory of Michel Theys we publish this broadcast we made with him in 2015. He was the President of AEJ Belgium for several years.
