(RSF/IFEX) - 28 February 2012 - Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution...
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No one shall be subjected to enforced disappearance
As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared today, Reporters Without Borders notes that many countries are still violating international law on this matter, including the International...
Sri Lanka: All-out propaganda and intimidation in run-up to presidential election
Tension surrounds today's presidential election, especially for the press, which has had to face many obstacles. Use of the state media to support President Mahinda Rajapaksa's campaign for another...
Afghanistan + 9 more
Wars and disputed elections: The most dangerous stories for journalists
Two appalling events marked 2009: one was the largest ever massacre of journalists in a single day - a total of 30 killed - by the private militia of a governor in the southern Philippines and the...
Sri Lanka: Media banned from covering local elections in two northern cities
Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the Sri Lanka government's decision on 3 August not to allow journalists into the northern cities of Vavuniya and Jaffna to cover the first local elections to...
Sri Lanka: Journalists trying to cover the fate of tamils are threatened, obstructed
Reporters Without Borders is extremely worried by statements by Sri Lankan officials, including army commander Gen. Sarath Fonseka, that journalists who visited areas formerly controlled by the Tamil...
Sri Lanka: Army holding three doctors who gave information to press
Reporters Without Borders urges the Sri Lankan authorities to quickly release three Tamil doctors - Thangamuttu Sathiyamorthi, Thurairaja Varatharajan and V. Sunmugarajah - who have been arrested for...
Sri Lanka: Press freedom
Murders, physical assaults, kidnappings, threats and censorship are the lot of Sri Lanka's journalists. Top government officials, including the defence minister, are directly implicated in the...
Sri Lanka: Call for journalists to be let into area where a major humanitarian crisis is unfolding with no media presence
Reporters Without Borders reminds the Sri Lankan government of its international undertakings as the media continue to be prevented from moving about freely in the north of the country, especially in...
Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemned today's pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in...
Sri Lanka: Three media workers killed in air strike on rebel radio station
(RSF/IFEX) - A Sri Lanka military air strike on 27 November 2007 on the Voice of Tigers, the radio station of the Tamil Tiger rebels in the north of the country, was a "war crime," Reporters Without...
Sri Lanka: Jaffna's media in the grip of terror
Since fighting resumed in 2006 between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Tamil-populated Jaffna peninsula has become a nightmare for journalists, human rights...