Africa’s seven press freedom predators are Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki, Equatorial Guinean President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, Rwandan President Paul Kagamé, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Swaziland’s King Mswati III and Somalia’s Islamist militias (Al-Shabaab and Hizb-Al-Islam)
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The jailed Eritrean-born journalist, Dawit Isaak, has won the Golden Pen of Freedom Award for 2011.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has just issued its latest report on Eritrea. ICFC is pleased that the Commission’slatest recommendations to the US State Department, the President and Congress is much more robust than it has ever been.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has just issued its latest report on Eritrea. ICFC is pleased that the Commission’slatest recommendations to the US State Department, the President and Congress is much more robust than it has ever been.
There has never been heard in the revolutions of people that people who fled from the persecution of dictatorship rally dictatorship in their home lands while they live in democratic countries. Eritreans are exception to this theory.
There has never been heard in the revolutions of people that people who fled from the persecution of dictatorship rally dictatorship in their home lands while they live in democratic countries. Eritreans are exception to this theory.
Abeba (centre) fled from Eritrea to Ethiopia with her four children after her husband Endryas, a member of the Kale Hiwot Church, died in detention. He had been deprived of his insuiin medication. The children are (from left): Luwam (14), Nahom (16), and the twins Heaven (10) and Hewan (10). Photo: Release International)
Abeba (centre) fled from Eritrea to Ethiopia with her four children after her husband Endryas, a member of the Kale Hiwot Church, died in detention. He had been deprived of his insuiin medication. The children are (from left): Luwam (14), Nahom (16), and the twins Heaven (10) and Hewan (10). Photo: Release International)
New York, November 25, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists honored four journalists with its 2009 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night that highlighted impunity in journalist murders, this week’s killings of Philippine journalists, and the Internet’s emerging role in press freedom. Anthony Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and founding CPJ board member, was honored with the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.
New York, November 25, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists honored four journalists with its 2009 International Press Freedom Awards in a ceremony Tuesday night that highlighted impunity in journalist murders, this week’s killings of Philippine journalists, and the Internet’s emerging role in press freedom. Anthony Lewis, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and founding CPJ board member, was honored with the Burton Benjamin Memorial Award for lifetime achievement.
They presented to several diverse groups of people including members of the United Nations, UN mission, Committee to Protect Journalists, Eritrean Civic Society , Eritrean Global Solidarity and other individuals.
They presented to several diverse groups of people including members of the United Nations, UN mission, Committee to Protect Journalists, Eritrean Civic Society , Eritrean Global Solidarity and other individuals.
The 3 day event (18-20 June 2009) in Washington is taking place against the background of the state Eritrea is in. Now in its 18th year of independent statehood, Eritrea finds itself in a moment of neither war nor peace, the PFDJ making a scapegoat of a “Weyane” Ethiopian government threat of invading Eritrea in order to maintain repression and control of the youth.
The 3 day event (18-20 June 2009) in Washington is taking place against the background of the state Eritrea is in. Now in its 18th year of independent statehood, Eritrea finds itself in a moment of neither war nor peace, the PFDJ making a scapegoat of a “Weyane” Ethiopian government threat of invading Eritrea in order to maintain repression and control of the youth.
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There is no better time than the present to end tyranny and misery in Eritrea. The Eritrean regime should be stopped from torturing, murdering and starving Eritreans. Nor should it be allowed to continue sending arms to Somalia which are reportedly killing innocent civilians and African Union Peace Keepers tasked to bring stability to that war-ravaged nation.
There is no better time than the present to end tyranny and misery in Eritrea. The Eritrean regime should be stopped from torturing, murdering and starving Eritreans. Nor should it be allowed to continue sending arms to Somalia which are reportedly killing innocent civilians and African Union Peace Keepers tasked to bring stability to that war-ravaged nation.
World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 to remind us all of the vital importance of this core freedom. It is a day in which we celebrate the indispensable role played by journalists in exposing abuses of power, while we sound the alarm about the growing number of journalists silenced by death or jail as they attempt to bring daily news to the public.
World Press Freedom Day is annually observed on May 3 to remind us all of the vital importance of this core freedom. It is a day in which we celebrate the indispensable role played by journalists in exposing abuses of power, while we sound the alarm about the growing number of journalists silenced by death or jail as they attempt to bring daily news to the public.
Eritrea has been ranked 173 out of 173 countries in the 2008 press freedom index again, to the rare of North Korea, published on Wednesday by the international organization Reporters Without Borders.
Eritrea has been ranked 173 out of 173 countries in the 2008 press freedom index again, to the rare of North Korea, published on Wednesday by the international organization Reporters Without Borders.
in Eritrea (173rd), which has come last for the second year running, President Issaias Afeworki and his small clan of paranoid nationalists continue to run Africa’s youngest country like a vast open prison.
in Eritrea (173rd), which has come last for the second year running, President Issaias Afeworki and his small clan of paranoid nationalists continue to run Africa’s youngest country like a vast open prison.
ሓርነት ደሊና ፍትሒ ደሊና - ድርፊ ብ ኣሰዋው ሓጎስ
ሓርነት ደሊና ፍትሒ ደሊና - ድርፊ ብ ኣሰዋው ሓጎስ
Reporters Without Borders criticises lack of public commitment to press freedom and fears anti-media violence in coming months
Reporters Without Borders criticises lack of public commitment to press freedom and fears anti-media violence in coming months
On the eve of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges the AU to actively defend and uphold press freedom across the continent.
On the eve of the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Committee to Protect Journalists urges the AU to actively defend and uphold press freedom across the continent.
Eritrea conceals religious freedom violations from US congressman – International Christian Concern
Eritrea conceals religious freedom violations from US congressman – International Christian Concern
PRESS FREEDOM IN 2007 : 86 journalists killed – up 244% over five years; at least two journalists arrested each day
PRESS FREEDOM IN 2007 : 86 journalists killed – up 244% over five years; at least two journalists arrested each day
Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007 – Eritrea ranked last for first time while G8 members, except Russia, recover lost ground
Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007 – Eritrea ranked last for first time while G8 members, except Russia, recover lost ground
Eritrea: 2005 World Press Freedom Review
Eritrea: 2005 World Press Freedom Review