Ashley Parent

The Committee to Protect Journalists will take part in a joint press conference on Turkey’s press freedom record, alongside Reporters Without Borders and the European Federation of Journalists. The press conference, “EU must stop its double standards with Turkey,” will be held in Brussels on December 15, 2015. CPJ’s EU correspondent Jean-Paul Marthoz, along with…

The Global Knowledge Partnership Foundation, The Public Interest Registry (PIR) and The Internet Policy Forum of the Washington DC Chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC-DC) are hosting a 3 event series of the Pathfinder Initiative about Building Internet Capacity for Non-Profits and NGOs. This kick-off event, December 14, will focus on Internet Security, with CPJ…

Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Senate Human Rights Caucus for a briefing and dialogue with the 2015 recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Award. Journalists foster accountability through their reporting on politics, crime, corruption and human rights abuses. However, in many countries journalists work in a…

Next month, Fair Trials is hosting an event in Washington, D.C. with Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute, examining the way that INTERPOL is being misused by countries around the world to persecute refugees, journalists and peaceful political demonstrators, to devastating effect. In recent years, the use of INTERPOL’s “wanted person” alerts has expanded vastly with…

On November 2, CPJ and Article 19 will host an event at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi for the International Day to End Impunity. Tom Rhodes, CPJ’s East Africa representative, will speak on a panel with representatives from Article 19, the Media Council of Kenya and journalists from Kenya, Burundi, South Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Taking place on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, UNESCO; along with Centre for the Freedom of the Media (CFOM) – Sheffield University; PEN International; and Article 19 will host journalists, international lawyers, human rights figures and policymakers to share their understanding of the acute situation regarding the issue of impunity…

U.S. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Richard Stengel will discuss new strategies in defense of global press freedom. The event will include a panel with Agnes Callamard (Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression), Ann Cooper (International Director at Columbia Journalism School), Joel Simon (Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists) and…

On October 28, join Carlos Lauría and Joel Simon at a panel on press freedom and open government at the Open Government Partnership Global Summit. The panel will feature a debate about press freedom in Mexico and will be moderated by CPJ’s executive director Joel Simon. The discussion will take place in a “fishbowl” format…

In Germany, the editors of the political blog netzpolitik.org were recently accused of treason; in Hungary internal censorship is becoming increasingly common as pro-government media enjoy preferential treatment; in Spain, a highly controversial security law, known as the “Gag Law,” evokes fears that journalists can no longer freely report from demonstrations. What is the state…

The European Youth Media Days (EYMD) are the first Europe-wide forum that involves, connects, informs and encourages young media makers to be in the heart of the European integration process. The EYMD are an innovative, intercultural and outcome-focussed multimedia event. Panel discussion: (Self-) censorship: how free are we really? Media freedom and censorship in 21st…