Events

The Circumvention Tech Festival (CTFestival) gathers the community fighting censorship and surveillance for a week of conferences, workshops, hackathons, and social gatherings, featuring many of the Internet Freedom community’s flagship events.

Freelance journalism has never been more dangerous. At Columbia Journalism School in New York City, join an unprecedented coalition of leading news companies, freelance journalism organizations and press-freedom advocates responding to this crisis, by launching global safety principles and practices for international news organizations and the freelancers who work with them.

Feb 7 @ 2:30 pm at the Newseum in Washington D.C. Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, talks about his new book, “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom.”

In conflict and crisis, journalists put themselves in peril to bring news to the world. With journalists being killed and imprisoned in record numbers, the Newseum presents a special program examining these threats and the rise of new strategies by terrorists and governments to suppress information.

Joel Simon – The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom, a Q&A with Rebecca MacKinnon. Jan 5 2015, at 7:00 pm. Politics and Prose5015 Connecticut Ave. NWWashington, DC 20008 More details here.

Anton Harber, the author of the just released report on press freedom in Rwanda for the Committee to Protect Journalists, will discuss his findings on Wednesday 10 December at the International Press Centre between 10h30 and 12h30, Résidence Palace, rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Brussels. Other speakers will be Sue Valentine, Africa director at CPJ,…

Human Rights and Press Freedom: Global and Domestic Challenges 6 pm to 8:30 PM Program: Keynote Speaker: Courtney Radsch, Advocacy Director, Committee to Protect Journalists; a responder panel of local journalists is being organized.

Conference of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on media freedom and safety of journalists. CPJ’s Europe Representative, Jean-Paul Marthoz, will participate in the conference. December 4. Paris, at the French Senate.

Four journalists from Burma, Iran, Russia, and South Africa will be honored with the Committee to Protect Journalists’ 2014 International Press Freedom Awards, an annual recognition of courageous reporting. These journalists have faced imprisonment, violence, and censorship. For details, click here.

While Ethiopia has proven to be a willing ally in the war on terror and partner in developing successful models to strengthen food security and community resilience, many aspects of its human rights record continue to raise concerns. In recent years there has been a disturbing trend towards repressive interpretations of laws, which have led…